Ludwig Kick

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Ludwig Kick (born March 29, 1857 in Lindau , Lake Constance, † August 4, 1947 in Zurich ) was a German engineer and benefactor.

Life

Ludwig Kick

Ludwig Kick came from a long-established Lindau bourgeois family; the father ran a brush shop on the island in the Grub. The task was to feed and raise five boys and five girls. The young Ludwig Kick, with a noticeable technical interest and understanding, was able to switch to the industrial school in Augsburg at the age of fifteen, then studied at the Technical University of Munich and completed his engineering studies with a diploma.

Ludwig Kick had professional and financial success especially from 1889/90 in the United States, when building up and as a partner in a large textile factory, the Botany Worsted Mills in Passaic, New Jersey. At the age of 45, shortly after the turn of the century, the engineer and businessman Kick returned from the USA to Lake Constance in Lindau and made his hometown his primary place of residence. From the voyages across the Atlantic, from New York to Bremerhaven and vice versa, a voluminous trunk, now a museum piece, has been preserved.

Ludwig Kick lived in Lindau as a wealthy man and dignitary with a sense of citizenship, with an open, generous hand for many social and cultural purposes. In 1902, on the financial basis of American gold bonds, he founded a foundation for the well-being of sick or weak children in need of rest, regardless of their denomination, and he made it possible for the city of Lindau to acquire a holiday home in Lindenberg in the Allgäu after World War I and inflation; he ran the establishment of the Lindau infant home and took care of its maintenance; In 1931/32 he made it possible to restore the Gothic Kröll Chapel at the Aeschacher Friedhof (this is where the Kick family's grave of honor is located).

The house at Cavazzen in Lindau

Ludwig Kick had the Tanne country house built next to the old Lärche farm as his residence in Lindau-Aeschach, and was married to Lydia Kick (née Zippel; † 1949). Daughter Gertrud was married to Anton Zwisler , who later became district president of Lindau.

The "Haus zum Cavazzen" on Lindau's market square is the most sustainable testimony to Ludwig Kicks' sense of the common good. The striking building in the Baroque style, built in 1729 and 1730 for the wealthy Seutter von Loetzen family , was acquired by Ludwig Kick and extensively renovated. As the "Ludwig and Lydia Kick'sche Heimatstiftung" he bequeathed it to the city in 1929 with the aim of giving the Lindau City Museum , previously on the upper floor of the Old Town Hall and homeless after a fire, a new, spacious place to stay and a financially secure, worthy domicile.

Awards

  • Ludwig Kick was made an honorary citizen of the city of Lindau on April 3, 1922.
  • In 1927 he was made an honorary member of the Technical University of Munich.

Ludwig-Kick-Straße in Lindau is named after him .

literature

  • In memory of Ludwig Kick (speeches) [obituaries], in: Neujahrsblatt 11 des Museumsverein Lindau, 1949, pp. 55–60
  • Manfred Maurer, The Honorary Citizens of the City of Lindau, Ed. Bayer. Mortgage and exchange bank, Munich 1985, therein: Ludwig Kick - Stifter des Cavazzen
  • The old Lindau cemetery in Aeschach , Neujahrsblatt 43 of the Lindau Museum Association, 2003
  • Das Haus zum Cavazzen , brochure ed. from Förderverein Cavazzen eV, 1st edition. 2016
  • Cavazzen News 2016–2018 of the Förderverein Cavazzen eV, www.cavazzen.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The honorary citizens of Lindau (see above) and Cavazzen News 2017/01 and 2018/01
  2. ↑ To the memory ... , p. 55 f; also: Journal of the Association of German Engineers, Volume 34, Berlin 1890, p. 72 u. P. 120, and Rudolf Cronau, Three Centuries of German Life in America , reprint of the original edition from 1909, (including) Hamburg 2010, p. 406
  3. ↑ Cavazzen News 2017/01
  4. ↑ To the memory ... u. Commemorative article in the Lindauer Zeitung of April 4, 1957
    Lindauer Tagblatt of April 27, 1902
  5. ^ Commemorative article in the Lindauer Zeitung of April 4, 1957
  6. ↑ To the memory ... , p. 56, and Die Ehrenbürger ...
  7. ↑ The old Lindau cemetery , p. 60 ff
  8. ↑ To the memory ..., p. 57; Brochures The Honorary Citizens ... and The House of Cavazzen
  9. ↑ History of the AH Association ( https://www.amiv.de/geschichte-des-ah-verbandes-des ) amiv-ev / Academic Machine Engineers Association Munich (AMIV)
personal data
SURNAME Kick, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and founder
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindau (Lake Constance)
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1947
Place of death Zurich