Leonhard Körting

Medal with the bust of Leonhard Körting and the artist's signature of the architect and sculptor Werner Hantelmann from the workshop of Carl Poellath

Leonard Johann Heinrich Körting (also: Leonhard Körting , born June 13, 1834 in Hanover ; † July 9, 1930 ) was a German technician , gas specialist , director of the gasworks in Hanover and a freemason .

Oil painting from the beginning of the Imperial Continental Gas Association (ICGA) on the Glocksee , signed : “I. Körting 1922, born in the above house in 1834 " (original in the possession of the Deutsches Museum in Munich )

Life

The gas works between Glocksee and Ihme around 1900

Körting was the eldest son of the first director of the Hanoverian gas works , at the time still the Imperial Continental Gas Association (ICGA), the businessman Friedrich Ernst Körting (1803-1882) and his wife Sophie (1802-1869), daughter of the Hanoverian court furniture maker Johann Heinrich Meyer and Catharine Sophie Amalie Corneils , born. Leonhard was the older brother of Ernst Körting and Berthold Körting , who later founded the Körting Brothers company in Hanover .

Körting attended the Polytechnic School in Hanover and worked for the Hanoverian gas works since 1855. From 1878 until his retirement in 1908, Körting followed his father as director of the ICGA.

“Director Koerting” (4th from left) as a member of the Kunstverein Hannover at its 71st exhibition opening;
Photo print based on a group picture by Ernst August Fischer , 1903.

Back of card: “Sedanstr. 68 / 4/8 24 “to Professor Georg Herting

Körting's thank you card for the congratulations on his 90th birthday

From 1872 to 1874 he was chairman of the Association for Freihandschießen Hannover from 1862 eV 1886 to 1922 he was chairman of the gymnastics club in Hannover . Körting was the grandfather of a school friend and patron of the DADA artist Kurt Schwitters , with whom Körting went on a trip to Lake Garda in 1912, for example . Körting was a Freemason. In 1873 he moved from the Grand Lodge to the Grand Lodge of Prussia . He was a member of the Hanoverian Lodge Zum Schwarzen Bär and from 1893 to 1923 its chairman . From 1898 to 1900 and 1900 to 1903, Körting was chairman of the German Association of Gas and Gas. Water professionals . At the beginning of the 20th century, Körting was involved in the board of directors or the hanging committee of the Hannoversche Kunstverein when it opened its 71st exhibition in 1903.

In 1905 Leonhard Körting received the Bunsen-Pettenkofer Honor Roll from the German Association of Gas and Water Experts.

family

In 1861 Körting married his fiancée Maria Henriette Charlotte Mertens (1834–1920), and four children arose from the marriage:

• Ernst Körting (1862–1945), later General Director of the Berlin Gas Works
• Emilie, married Galley (1863–1934)
• Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Ernst Berthold Körting (1868–1906), who worked in Moscow from 1900, where he also died.
  • His daughter Dr. med. Wera Gißel had been the wife of Senior Field Physician Prof. Dr. med. habil. Heinrich Gißel .
• Alfred Adolf Conrad Carl Körting (1873–1954)

Honors and portraits

• The Grand Lodge of Prussia has been awarding the Körting Medal since 1898, created by the sculptor Werner Hantelmann , with a bust of Leonard Körting on the front
• In 1925 the sculptor Werner Hantelmann created a bronze medal with the inscription “For the 70th anniversary of bricklaying in 1925” around a bear standing on a pillar, the reference to the Black Bear Lodge . The medal with a diameter of 38.2 mm shows on the other side a bust of the chair master of the lodge with the name spelling “Leonard Körting”.
• There is a 285 × 282 mm cast bronze plate with a similar, but more concise, modulated bust between three columns with different capitals, as well as - at the forehead level - the letters "AET S XCVI", undated, but again subtitled with the name spelling "Leonard Körting"

Fonts (selection)

• Johannisgruß. Address of ... Körting at the Midsummer Festival of the Black Bear Lodge in Hanover 1912. Hanover 1912.
• Speeches and toasts, given in the gymnastics club in Hanover from 1872 to 1913. Hanover 1913.

literature

• The golden mason jubilee of the venerable Chair master's Körting in the Orient Hanover on December 9, 1905. Hanover, Höltje 1906.
• Association of German Freemasons (ed.): Festschrift to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the mason of brother Leonhard Körting, Hanover, on December 13, 1925. Leipzig 1925.
• Brother Leonard Körting's life. Described by himself. In: Bauhütte 68, 1926, pp. 5-7.
• Fritz Rackhorst: About Leonard Körting. In: Lamp 17 (1926) p. 7 = brother chain. 39, 1926, No. 1, p. 6.
• Oskar Schütte: A Masonic celebration for a brother who has been in the chain for 70 years. In: Art 23, 1926, pp. 6-11.
• August Heitmüller : Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature. Osterwald, Hanover (no year, 1928), p.
• Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon , 1932, revised and expanded new edition, special production, 1st edition, edit. by Dieter Anton Binder. Herbig, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7766-5036-5 , p.

Web links

Commons : Leonard Körting  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Leonard Körting in the Freemason Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Leonhard Körting. In: Eva A. Mayring (Ed.): Images of technology, industry and science. An inventory catalog of the Deutsches Museum. Edition Minerva, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-938832-28-8 , p. 226 (limited preview, books.google.de ).
2. ^ Rainer Ertel : Gas supply. In: Klaus Mlynek, Dirk Böttcher (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 204 f.
3. ^ ^{A b} Count Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoß:  Körting, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 396-399 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ Torsten Bachmann: Gas lighting for Hanover: Germany's first gas works in the Glocksee. In: ders .: Linden . Forays through history. Sutton, Erfurt [o. D., ca. 2012], ISBN 978-3-95400-112-5 , pp. 34-39; here: p. 36 f. ( books.google.de ).
5. ^ Association for Freihandschießen Hannover von 1862 eV 150 successful years! Hanover 2012, p. 9 ( vff-hannover.de PDF).
6. ↑ Kurt Schwitters / Biography , p. 2 ( sprengel-museum.de PDF of the Sprengel Museum Hannover);
   Gwendolen Webster: Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study. 1997, p. 18.
7. ^ Leonard Körting in the Freemason Wiki .
8. ↑ The chairmen or presidents of the DVGW since 1859 ( memento of the original from March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
9. ↑ Compare the captioning on the group picture at the opening of the art exhibition in 1903.
10. ↑ Owner of the Bunsen-Pettenkofer roll of honor ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
11. ↑ Körting Family Memorial
12. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , com.muenzenhandlung-winter.de , sixbid.com . 
13. ↑ Personal medals Körting, Leonard * 1834, † 1930, chair master of the lodge "Zum schwarzen Bären". Portable bronze medal 1925 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Hanseatische Münzenhandlung Bremen GmbH .
14. ↑ Westfälische Auktionsgesellschaft, Auction 56, 7. – 8. February 2011, Lot No. 1586 ( Memento from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at Sixbid.com .