Otto Hartmann (animal rights activist)

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Otto Hartmann (born August 18, 1842 in Cologne ; † October 17, 1927 there ) was a German manufacturer and animal rights activist .

Life

The Cologne factory owner and businessman Otto Hartmann was a co-founder of the Cologne Animal Welfare Association founded on July 21, 1868, initially as secretary and from 1876 as its chairman. He first attended the Realschule Münster , left school in 1859 with the secondary school leaving certificate and in the same year joined the JD Herstatt bank in Cologne. He then became a partner in the Simonis building materials business and had been a partner in the Guillaume & Cie gas apparatus factory in Cologne since 1883.

Grave site ( sponsorship grave )

Hartmann played a central role in the German animal protection movement in the following decades and a. vehemently for a ban on slaughtering . In 1875 he initiated the merger of the local animal welfare associations in Düsseldorf, Essen and Cologne and the “Wupperthaler Verein zur Schutz der Thiere” (Association of Rhenish-Westphalian Animal Welfare Associations). In 1881, under Hartmann's leadership, the German animal welfare associations merged to form the "Association of Animal Welfare Associations of the German Reich", which he chaired until his death during a board meeting of the Cologne animal welfare association in 1927. After his death, the forerunner of the German Animal Welfare Association was sometimes called the Otto Hartmann Association and was dissolved by his successor Camillo Schaufuss in 1933. The first German Animal Welfare Act ( Reichstierschutzgesetz ) passed in 1933 was largely shaped by the preparatory work of the German animal welfare associations under his leadership.

Hartmann's grave is located in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. B no. 275-76),

literature

  • Camillo Schaufuß : The Association of Animal Welfare Associations of the German Empire. Brief outline of the history of animal welfare and the German Reich Animal Welfare from November 24, 1933.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German animal lover, organ of the Leipzig animal protection association . tape 1 , no. 1, 1896 . Leipzig October 15, 1896, p. 7-8 .
  2. ^ Willige, Hans Georg: Life story of a jubilee . In: Messages from the Animal Welfare Association Dresden . No. 2 / 6th year, February 1940, p. 22-23 .
  3. ↑ Schaufuss, Camillo: The Association of Animal Welfare Associations of the German Reich - Brief outline of the history of animal welfare and the German Reich Animal Welfare Act . 1934, p. 4 .
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer and animal rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1927
Place of death Cologne