Louis Baare

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Louis Baare

Carl Ludwig Baare , called Louis Baare , (born June 12, 1821 in Minden ; † May 16, 1897 in Bochum ) was a German businessman and manager in the coal and steel industry.

Live and act

Baare came to the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft at the age of 24 as a commercial clerk and soon rose in the administration there. The company was one of the creditors of the Bochum cast steel factory Mayer & Kühne , from which the Bochumer Verein later emerged. From 1854 to 1895 he was director, then general director of the Bochumer Verein and expanded it into a company with worldwide significance. His successor in this function was his son Fritz Baare .

From 1863 to 1897 Baare was a city ​​councilor for the city of Bochum. He was also president of the Bochum Chamber of Commerce from 1872 to 1897 . From 1884 to 1895 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of Westphalia for the constituency of Mark for the collective cities and then for the constituency of Bochum-Stadt and the National Liberal Party .

Baare was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1879 and advised Otto von Bismarck on a number of socio-political issues. In 1880 and 1881, in the early phase of drafting an accident insurance law, he gave the idea for Bismarck.

The Prussian state honored Baare's services with the honorary titles of Commerce Councilor and Secret Commerce Councilor . In 1884 he was appointed to the Prussian State Council. In 1887 the city of Bochum granted Louis Baare honorary citizenship . The city praised his work with the words: "The progress of the great work at whose head he stands are closely linked to the prosperity of the city."

His last residence still exists today, the Villa Baare in Höntrop , which was built for him . The Baares family crypt is located in today's Bochum Kortumpark . The Louis-Baare vocational college , Baarestrasse in Stahlhausen , which also has a memorial plaque, and Baarestrasse in Herne- Börnig are all named after him.

Family and offspring

Baare was married twice:

  • With his first wife Elisabeth Alwine († 1850), née Hönemann, he had two sons: Bernhard and Paul.
  • With his second wife Helene Johanna (* October 17, 1830; † April 7, 1885), born André, he had another five sons (Friedrich, Wilhelm, Adolf (* January 28, 1861 in Bochum ; † January 6, 1906 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ), Louis and Theodor ) and three daughters, of whom only Minna survived infancy.

Three of his seven sons later also held leading positions in the Bochum association: Friedrich , Wilhelm and Bernhard.

literature

  • Walther Bacmeister : Louis Baare. A Westphalian business leader from the Bismarckian era. Walter Bacmeister's National Publishing House, Essen 1937.
  • Walter Däbritz:  Baare, Louis. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 477 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Paul Küppers: Louis Baare (1821-1897). In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien, Volume I. Aschendorff, Münster 1931, pp. 230–245.
  • Josef Häming: The members of the Westphalia Parliament: 1826 - 1978, 1978, Westphalian sources and archive directories; Vol. 2 (main volume), p. 165.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church book transcript , 1815-1874 Evangelical Church Sankt Martini, Stadtgemeinde Minden (Westphalia) on FamilySearch.org
  2. ^ Wilhelm Treue: Economic and technical history of Prussia . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1984, ISBN 3-11-009598-X , p. 541.
  3. ↑ Florian Tennstedt , Heidi Winter (edit.): Collection of sources on the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , Department I: From the founding of the Empire to the Imperial Social Message (1867-1881), Volume 2: From liability legislation to the first accident insurance proposal. Stuttgart u. a. 1993.
  4. ↑ Data from the tombstone on the Baare family crypt in Kortumpark Bochum
  5. ↑ Data from the tombstone on the Baare family crypt in Kortumpark Bochum
personal data
SURNAME Baare, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baare, Carl Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and manager in the coal and steel industry
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1897
Place of death Bochum