Leopold von Vangerow

Leopold von Vangerow

August Philipp Leopold von Vangerow (born April 15, 1831 in Herford , † June 22, 1881 in Bremerhaven ) was a German publisher and Bremerhaven local politician.

biography

Vangerow came from an old Pomeranian noble family and was the son of the royal Prussian captain August von Vangerow (1797–1862) and the Herford merchant's daughter Justine Sophie Schröder (1800–1857). He completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller. In 1852 he moved from Herford to Bremerhaven to set up a branch of the Heyse bookstore in Bremen. He worked together with the printer Otto Remmler. Both founded the weekly newspaper on the Lower Weser and in 1855 they took over the Heyse bookstore. Since 1856 he published the Correspodenzblatt for Bremerhaven . In 1857 (other sources 1855) he and Remmler were editors of the Provinzial-Zeitung in Lehe . In 1864 the newspaper appeared in Geestemünde as a pro-Hanover, later national liberal newspaper . His publisher also brought out books and brochures.

In 1862 Vangerow became a member of the Bremerhaven municipal council. He was chairman of the municipal council from 1867 to 1879 and spoke to the Senate in Bremen for a large degree of independence for Bremerhaven. In 1873 the city library was built on his initiative. The disputes over the introduction of the city constitution ended his political career. However, he achieved his goal of becoming an independent municipality in the state of Bremen after the adoption of the city constitution on October 1, 1879 and the appointment of a full-time city director (1880). He was a member of the Bremerhaven Freemason Lodge to the three anchors .

Vangerow married on September 24, 1857 in Herford Anna Engelbrecht (* July 28, 1834 in Herford; † September 30, 1904 in Berlin), the daughter of Heinrich Engelbrecht , landowner and wine wholesaler in Amsen near Herford, and Henriette Charlotte Sengstake . The couple had two daughters and three sons, of whom August von Vangerow (1863-1935) continued the publishing house.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Genealogical manual of the aristocracy , aristocrat of houses A . Volume XVII, page 489, volume 81 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1983.