Louis Auguste Ravené

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Louis Ferdinand Auguste Ravené (born December 13, 1866 in Berlin ; † January 20, 1944 there , also Ludwig August Ravené ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur . In family tradition he often only called himself Louis Ravené like his father and grandfather; This later led to numerous mix-ups, and the first names were also used in their German form.

Life

Louis Auguste Ravené was a descendant of Huguenot refugees from France. He took over the Jacob Ravené Söhne iron shop from his family .

His father Louis Fréderic Jacques Ravené died in 1879. Since the mother had previously separated from the family, Adolph von Hansemann took over the guardianship as his mother's brother-in-law . The upbringing of the children was largely taken over by the general manager of the family company, Paul Harder, whose wife was a friend of Theodor Fontane's wife . Louis Auguste completed a commercial apprenticeship and became a co-owner of the Jac. Ravené & Sons join the family business.

He married Martha Ende, the daughter of the architect Hermann Ende , who was a friend of his father's and who also built the castle in Cochem with his son. In 1891 their son was born, who received the same first name as the grandfather with Peter Louis and died in 1945.

Ravené received an honorary doctorate from the University of Erlangen and was given the honorary title of Privy Councilor of Commerce at the turn of the century . Like his grandfather Pierre Louis Ravené , he made a name for himself as a patron of the arts who made his private collections publicly accessible; his father was also interested in art.

After the First World War , the focus shifted from iron and steel trading to general commercial and financial transactions. In the run-up to and during the war, capital had grown significantly, also through armaments products.

The functions now included:

  • Chairman of the supervisory board of Ravené steel and trading companies (until 1926)
  • Member of the Central Committee of the Reichsbank
  • Board member of the Association of German Employers' Associations
  • President of the Reich Association of German Wholesale and Overseas Trade

After the death of his wife, he married Elisabeth Cäcilie von Alten in 1934.

Even in later years he was active in business; at the beginning of World War II he was:

  • Member of the supervisory board of Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG and Sächsische Versicherungs-AG (Dresden)
  • Member of the supervisory board of the New Guinea company
  • Member of the supervisory board of Transatlantische Güterversicherungs-AG (Berlin)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG

Buildings

Berlin center

  • The traditional company headquarters was in the area between Wallstrasse and Neue Grünstrasse in Berlin-Mitte .

Berlin Tiergarten

  • A representative central administration had its seat from 1903 to the beginning of the 1920s in the house at Margarethenstrasse 17 (near the St. Matthew Church ). (The Rosenberg office moved in here in 1934. )

Marquardt

  • In 1892 Louis Auguste Ravené bought the estate and Marquardt Palace near Potsdam as a summer residence. In 1912 he had the manor house extended and a west wing added. In 1900 he donated the new building of the Protestant village church, in which he is buried with his first wife. In 1932 the castle was leased to the hotelier Kempinski , and in 1942 it was sold to Aschinger after his " Aryanization " .

Wannsee

Cochem

  • Louis Auguste Ravené completed the expansion of the Reichsburg near Cochem on the Moselle from the inheritance together with his father-in-law. The castle remains in the family until 1942. It was used as a summer residence, and the greater part of the painting collection was shown to the public here.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Files of the Reich Chancellery in the Federal Archives
  2. ↑ Margarethenstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1903, Part 3, p. 436.
  3. ↑ Margarethenstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1920, part 3, p. 547.
  4. ↑ published illustrations 1 2 after photographs by Hermann Rückwardt at the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Ravené, Louis Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ravené, Louis; Ravené, August Ludwig; Ravené, Ludwig August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, entrepreneur and patron
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1944
Place of death Berlin