Paul Bernhard Limburger
Paul Bernhard Limburger (born July 16, 1826 in Leipzig , † October 10, 1891 in Dölitz ) was a German businessman .
Life
Paul Bernhard Limburger came from a traditional Leipzig merchant family in the field of silk and yarn trade. His father Julius Bernhard Limburger died at the age of 27 when Paul Bernhard was one and a half years old. He had a good relationship with his later stepfather, Gustav Beyer, who was only 14 years his senior. He performed various tasks outside of Leipzig. Paul Bernhard Limburger was intended to continue the trading house that his grandfather Jacob Bernhard Limburger ran.
He received his training from the age of six at the Schnepfenthal boarding school and at the age of thirteen at a secondary school in Leipzig. After completing an apprenticeship in his grandfather's company, he completed traineeships in trading houses in England and Italy. At the age of 25 he became a partner in the business run by his widowed grandmother and six years later the main partner.
In 1856 he married Emma Charlotte Koch from a merchant family in Frankfurt am Main. The marriage produced four sons and one daughter. Around 1860 he built a town house on the corner of Schillerstraße at the corner of Neumarkt, which has still been preserved in a modified form, and a villa as a country residence in the then Leipzig suburb of Dölitz . Both buildings are under monument protection.
Apparently from his grandfather, who had been a part-time singer and music organizer, Paul Bernhard Limburger had taken on the understanding and interest in music. In the Dölitzer Landhaus he organized soirees in which famous musicians such as Johannes Brahms , Anton Rubinstein , Pablo de Sarasate and Clara Schumann performed and members of the Saxon royal family were guests. In 1868 Limburger, like his grandfather, became a member of the Gewandhaus management , and from 1881 until the end of his life he was its chairman. He actively influenced the programming of the concerts, and the initiative to build the Gewandhaus in the music district is attributed to him.
Limburger was a member and senior of the Trusted Society . He was a city councilor and from 1873 Vice Consul of the Kingdom of Italy and from 1874 Consul of Baden . He was a member of the board of directors of Leipziger Lebensversicherungsgesellschaft , Vice President of the Leipzig Chamber of Commerce and was on the supervisory boards of various Leipzig companies.
Paul Bernhard Limburger was buried in the Limburger family grave complex on the New Johannisfriedhof , which had to give way to the Friedenspark from 1950 .
Honor
In 1897 a street in the southwest of Leipzig was named Limburgerstraße "in honor of the deceased businessman and his Leipzig ancestors".
literature
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 357
- Anna-Barbara Schmidt: And by the way, Gewandhaus director . Gewandhausmagazin No. 85, Winter 2014/15, pp. 56/57
Web links
- Limburger, Paul Bernhard. In: Leipzig biography. Retrieved April 29, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Limburg town house in the list of cultural monuments in the center of Leipzig
- ^ Limburg villa in the list of cultural monuments in Dölitz-Dösen
- ↑ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexikon Leipziger Straßeennamen , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 136
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Limburger, Paul Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1891 |
| Place of death | Dolitz |