Leopold Abel (lawyer)

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Leopold Abel (also: Anton Leopold Abel * January 8, 1824 in Steinbrück , † October 20, 1907 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer , secret judicial councilor and chairman of the Hanover construction company .

Life

Anton Leopold Abel was born in the first decade of the Kingdom of Hanover and before industrialization began in the village of Steinbrück near Hildesheim as the son of Philipp Abel and Johanna Luise Knoblauch .

In 1856 Abel worked as a lawyer at the Hanover Higher Court , but also as a legal adviser for poor people.

A few years after the Royal Opera House was built by the court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves in the royal seat of Hanover, Leopold Abel was also a member of the management of the Hanoverian Court Theater. On August 15, 1862, Abel's name became part of the correspondence between the writer Berthold Auerbach and his friend, the Jewish theologian Jakob Auerbach .

Leopold Abel was honored with the award of the title of Privy Councilor of Justice . After after the Empire of the Hanoverian architect, building contractor and National Liberal politician Ferdinand Wallbrecht at the beginning of the early days had founded in 1872 Hannoversche Baugesellschaft, Abel became the chairman elected society.

Leopoldstrasse

The building complex of the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture crosses the former Leopoldstrasse and today's Johannssenstrasse

While Leopold Abel was still alive , Leopoldstrasse or Leopoldsstrasse, laid out in what is now Hanover's Mitte district in 1876, was named after the Privy Councilor of Justice Leopold Abel. Only after the Second World War, the street was renamed in 1952 in Johannssenstraße after Landesökonomierat and director of the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture , Peter Johannssen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Helmut Zimmermann : Johannssenstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 133
  2. ↑ a b N.N. : Anton Leopold Abel on ancestry.com , last accessed October 6, 2016
  3. ^ A b Hans Otto Horch : Berthold Auerbach: Letters to his friend Jakob Auerbach. New edition of the edition from 1884 with comments and indices (= Conditio Judaica , 83), Vol. 1 .: Letters 1830 - 1869 , Berlin; Munich; Boston, Massachusetts: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015, p. 59; Preview over google books
  4. ^ Hugo Thielen : Opera House. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 487f.
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Wallbrecht, Ferdinand. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 374.
  6. ^ Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , p. 78.
personal data
SURNAME Abel, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abel, Anton Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, privy councilor and chairman of the Hanover construction company
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinbrück
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1907
Place of death Hanover