Otto Schramm
The restaurateur Otto Schramm (born October 25, 1845 in Wilmersdorf [today in Berlin ]; † October 12, 1902 there ) is considered the founder of the legendary seaside resort of Wilmersdorf .
Live and act
Schramm was the son of one of the so-called Wilmersdorfer " millionaire farmers " who came to considerable wealth in the 1870s when investors, speculators and the railroad bought land on the edge of the rapidly developing metropolis Berlin on a large scale. Schramm was one of the first to recognize the potential of leisure and entertainment facilities that the communities on the outskirts of the city had in the early days .
With part of his million dollar fortune, he acquired a section of the former Wilmersdorfer See in 1879 and built a bathing establishment and the famous Schramm dance palace on the south bank . “Let's go to Schramm” became a catchphrase of the pleasure-loving Berliners.
On the area of the lake, which was filled in from 1915, there are now sports fields belonging to the Wilmersdorf park . Otto Schramm's son Hans-Otto Schramm (1892–1962) and his brother-in-law Hans Dunsing had the bathing establishment and dance palace replaced by the Schrammblock in the 1920s , a large and highly modern residential complex with one of the first underground car parks in Berlin. The west side of the apartment block is on Schrammstrasse , which has been named after the innkeeper since 1885.
Otto Schramm had five daughters from his first marriage. His first wife died when the youngest of them was six years old. In his second marriage he married Anna Siering in 1880, of whom two more children were born, including his only son as the last child. Hildegardstrasse in Wilmersdorf was named after Hildegard, a daughter of Otto Schramm, in 1895 .
Otto Schramm fell ill with kidney cancer at the age of 54 . After an operation to remove a kidney, he developed pneumonia and died from it. Otto Schramm's grave is located in the Wilmersdorf cemetery , which is only a few meters away from Schramm's former seaside resort between the Fennsee and Berliner Straße .
literature
- Max Kretzer : The millionaire farmer . 2 volumes, Leipzig 1891 (also as a theater play 1891). The novel is not about Schramm, but rather outlines the conflict between a love affair of millions of children and nobility.
- Georg Hermann : The Night of Doctor Herzfeld , 1912 (19th edition 1922) first part. The night - Chapter 2. "The living world, the jeunesse dorée of Wilmersdorf," is staged here.
- Ernst Georgy : The Berlin Range - New Confessions , 1900 Volume II - Chapter 14.
- Erdmann Graeser : Lemkes blessed Wwe. The wrong teeth - The blue magistrate - Berlin WW , 1907/1908 (In the seaside resort Wilmersdorf)
Web links
- Memories of granddaughter Karin Stöckhardt geb. Schramm (2005), published online on Berlin.de by the Berlin District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, History Department.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hildegardstraße in the street name lexicon Berlin of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ; accessed on August 13, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schramm, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilmersdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1902 |
| Place of death | Wilmersdorf |