Max Rüdenberg

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Max Rüdenberg (born April 9, 1863 in Bad Oeynhausen ; died September 26, 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a German bed feather manufacturer, local politician, art collector and victim of the Holocaust .

Life

family

Max Rüdenberg came from a Jewish family . He was the grandson of Marcus Rüdenberg , son of Gustav Rüdenberg , nephew of the bed spring manufacturer Georg Rüdenberg from Wülfel and the cousin of the businessman Gustav Rüdenberg and the electrical engineer Reinhold Rüdenberg .

In 1899 Max Rüdenberg married Margarethe Grünberg .

Career

Provenance proof , published by the coordination office for the loss of cultural property
Form Ghetto Theresienstadt , Council of Elders, death notice ...
Instead of a tombstone, the children of the Rüdenberg couple put this memorial stone on the chapel of the Jewish cemetery on Strangriede in the northern part of Hanover

Born in Bad Oeynhausen, the merchant's son Max Rüdenberg first became a partner in his uncle Georg's bed spring factory in 1889 , and later became sole owner. After 1896 the factory was relocated from Wülfel to Limmer , where Rüdenberg was elected treasurer of the waiting school association Limmer in 1904 . The citizens of Linden elected Rüdenberg as their mayor in 1909 , a task that Max Rüdenberg carried out until the Weimar Republic in 1920. In the meantime he was one of the founding members of the Kestner Society in 1916 .

Rüdenberg's interest in East Asian art probably began on one of his trade trips to China , from where he imported raw materials for his bed spring factory. In 1920 he began to build up a collection, including works made of porcelain and ceramics, figures made of ivory , sculptures made of bronze and wood, and scrolls .

Also in 1920, after the unification of the previously independent industrial city of Linden with Hanover, Rüdenberg was elected to the council of citizens of the now enlarged city, a task that he fulfilled until 1924.

After the National Socialists seized power , the Rüdenbergs became victims of anti-Jewish actions: In the course of the so-called “ Aryanizations ”, the family lost their own house, factory and other assets in 1938. In 1941 Max Rüdenberg's China collection was first stored in the Kestner Museum , and in 1942 it was formally expropriated and divided up in favor of the city of Hanover and a few private individuals. In the same year, Max and his wife Margarethe were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on July 23, 1942 , where the couple died.

aftermath

Married couple Rüdenberg-Weg

In 2010, the Limmer Urban Development Working Group asked the City Council of Hanover for a “name for the path along the Stichweh property to the Fosse and Leine in“ Ehepaar-Rüdenberg-Weg ”":

"The memory of the married couple Margarethe and Max Rüdenberg as Jewish victims of the Hitler dictatorship [should] be [preserved] with such a name."

The resolution proposal from the intergroup "Application acc. § 10 of the rules of procedure of the council in the meeting of the district council Linden-Limmer on September 29, 2010 "to the district mayor Barbara Knoke by the district council Linden-Limmer read:" The way that the Franz-Nause-Straße over the Wunstorfer Straße to the foot and extended to the leash, was given the name »Ehepaar-Rüdenberg-Weg« - and was then withdrawn.

Margarethe-and-Max-Rüdenberg-Platz

On May 10, 2017, application 15-1259 / 2017 was granted to dedicate the previously unnamed space between Velvetstrasse and Pfarrlandstrasse to the Rüdenberg couple. The original application was to be named "Ehepaar-Rüdenberg-Platz". This application was modified to avoid confusion with the Rüdenbergweg in the Seelhorst district . The inauguration of Margarethe-und-Max-Rüdenberg-Platz took place in the presence of the descendants on September 22, 2017.

See also

Media coverage (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Max Rüdenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Schulze: Rüdenberg, (2) Max. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 528
  2. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Linden. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 406ff.
  3. ↑ Karin Hurrle (Red.): The city of Hanover refuses to restitute private art / grandchildren demand the return of the valuable watercolor by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , online on the News Regional page from October 1, 2013
  4. ↑ NN : Hildebrand Gurlitt: The man who hoarded the looted art on the page of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit on November 4, 2013, last accessed on October 23, 2016
  5. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Sprengel, (3) Bernhard. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 343f.
  6. ↑ Hanover restituted in FAZ of June 26, 2017, page 13
  7. ↑ Application No. 15-1867 / 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
  8. ↑ SIM - DS 15-0981 / 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Margarethe-und-Max-Rüdenberg-Platz inaugurated in Limmer | Messages from 2017 | Messages | Urban culture of remembrance | Culture of remembrance | Architecture & History | Culture & Leisure | Hannover.de | Home - hannover.de. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rüdenberg, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bed feather manufacturer, local politician, art collector and victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Oeynhausen
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1942
Place of death Theresienstadt concentration camp