Karl Sparr

Karl Sparr (born August 30, 1860 in Verchen ; † February 3, 1932 in Stettin ) was a German educator and member of the cooperative.

Life

Karl Sparr was a son of the farmer August Christian Theodor Sparr and his wife Wilhelmine Christine Friederike Sophie, from Kay. He attended the three-class local school in Verchen and then went to the teachers' college in Pölitz . At the age of 20 he began his school service in Lebbin on the island of Wollin . Two years later he came to Groß-Weckow in the district of Cammin for seven years . Then Sparr was a village school teacher in Rakow in the Grimmen district for 11 years .

In the mid-1890s, Sparr got to know the social reform ideas of Raiffeisen and Wilhelm Haas and founded a rural savings and loan fund in the parish of Rakow. Due to his success, the association director of the Pomeranian agricultural cooperatives, Eugen von Brockhausen , brought him into the association as an employee in 1900 . Sparr made many trips to the villages and promoted the cooperative idea. In his 25 years of activity he founded over a thousand cooperatives in Pomerania.

A "Karl Sparr Foundation" was set up in his honor in 1920.

Sparr was first married to Mathilde Eggert and, after her death, was married to Martha Voss, the daughter of a teacher from Breester. The daughter from her first marriage married the fishing tenant Riemer am Kummerower See from Verchen. The daughter from the second marriage was married to the cooperative director Hollmichel.

literature

• Hans Hoffmann: Karl Sparr . In: Pommersche Lebensbilder , Vol. III, pp. 374–386.