Peter Bruckmann

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"Württemberg" balloon before the ascent at Heilbronn gasworks (March 14, 1909), in the middle in the basket Peter Bruckmann, on the right Ernst Jäckh
Emil Stumpp Peter Bruckmann (1926)

Peter Bruckmann (born January 13, 1865 in Heilbronn ; † March 2, 1937 there ; full name: Clemens Ernst Peter Bruckmann ) was a German entrepreneur and patron , co-owner of the Peter Bruckmann & Sons silver goods factory and co-founder and twice chairman of the German Werkbund . From his hometown Heilbronn he was awarded honorary citizenship in 1926 .

life and work

Entrepreneur

Peter Bruckmann was a son of Ernst Dietrich Bruckmann (1829–1870) and his wife Pauline Bruckmann geb. Brown. After attending the humanistic Karls-Gymnasium in Heilbronn, Peter Bruckmann studied at the Munich School of Applied Arts and the Technical University of Munich from 1884 to 1887 , after which he and his brother Ernst Bruckmann took over the father's business, the Peter Bruckmann & Sons silverware factory in Heilbronn, in 1887 his grandfather Georg Peter Bruckmann (1778–1850) was founded in 1805 and mainly produced cutlery . Peter Bruckmann was primarily responsible for the artistic area.

His artistic training enabled him to put an artistic stamp on his commercial products. He designed the silver fountain for the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . But his efforts to maintain quality were also remarkable in serial production.

In 1923 he withdrew from the company and left management to his son Dietrich Bruckmann (1896–1967). Peter Bruckmann's marriage to Johanne and Johanna (1870–1947), a daughter of Louis Link , resulted in three sons and a daughter, apart from Dietrich Bruckmann, the sons Peter (1890–1920) and Wilfrid (* 1907) and the daughter Johanna (* 1892).

politics

According to his democratic convictions, Bruckmann was a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP) and from 1915 to 1933 a member of the state parliament of the free People's State of Württemberg . From January 6, 1921 to 1933, he was Conrad Haußmann's successor as regional chairman of the DDP in Württemberg.

German Werkbund

In 1907 he met the architect Hermann Muthesius and in the same year became one of the co-founders of the Deutscher Werkbund . From 1909 to 1919 and from 1926 to 1932 he was its chairman. Here he worked with many artists, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Curt Behrendt . It was Bruckmann's endeavor, in and with this group, to absorb the strong technical and social changes after the turn of the century and to express them in new forms. In 1932 he was appointed honorary chairman of the Deutscher Werkbund.

Werkbund exhibition "The Apartment" (1927)

By working in the Southwest German Canal Association and in the German Werkbund, he had various contacts, including a. to Stuttgart's mayor Karl Lautenschlager (1868–1952) and to building mayor Daniel Sigloch , on the other hand to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Willi Baumeister and Gustaf Stotz in the Deutscher Werkbund . After the Stuttgart summer of culture in 1924, the idea of organizing an exhibition on new building arose in the Deutscher Werkbund . Bruckmann became a decisive driving force behind the exhibition “The Apartment” from 1927, the permanent result of which is the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart . The most famous architects of their time built here side by side and showed the new direction of architecture.

Canal Association

In addition, he was also active in the Southwest German Canal Association, which dealt with the expansion of the Neckar , so that the lower Neckar was also navigable for large ships. Bruckmann was interested in new architecture and had the vision of building the newly emerging banks of the Neckar with innovative architecture. Here, his persistent negotiating skills against many adversaries was particularly noticeable.

patron

In Heilbronn, Bruckmann was also known as a promoter of culture. In this way he promoted the construction of the Heilbronn City Theater , which was inaugurated in 1913. This inauguration was also symptomatic of his life's work: He was not only interested in the technical side, but also in the artistic. So he wrote a consecration play for the inauguration of the building on September 30, 1913. This trait of his personality (which also included his work for the canal association) was honored on his 60th birthday with the pretty bon mot “the whole land of great irrigators”.

Trade school board

In Bruckmann's time it was common for apprentices to go to vocational school on Sundays or after work in the evening , which was still called advanced training school until the Reichsschulkonferenz of 1920. As a trade school supervisor, good school support for the apprentices was important to him. That is why he held a vocational school day in Heilbronn - and for the first time in Baden-Württemberg. H. Compulsory day and workshop lessons for vocational students. This meant that the very stressful Sunday and evening classes for the apprentices were eliminated. The unbureaucratic relationship between industry and schools was also important to him, in order to provide an invigorating atmosphere for creative people. He wanted to "peel the person out of the apprentice and have an educational effect on him".

German and Austrian Alpine Club

In 1898 Bruckmann became the second chairman of the Heilbronn section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club at the time . In 1900 he became the first board member. Under his leadership, the construction of the first Heilbronn hut on the Tyrolean Tascheljöchl began in 1909 , which was inaugurated by Bruckmann on July 19, 1910. In 1919 the area around the Tascheljöchl fell to Italy, so that from 1925 Bruckmann had to plan a new hut to be built elsewhere. In late autumn 1926, the construction of the second Heilbronner Hütte in Verwall, which still exists today, began again under Bruckmann's leadership . A hiking trail from the hut to Wannenjöchl, inaugurated in 1929, was named in honor of the chairman of the section, Peter-Bruckmann-Weg , and the small Bruckmann bridge is located along the way . In the summer of 1933, Bruckmann resigned from his position on the board of the Alpine Club due to illness.

Today's appreciation of Bruckmann

In his hometown Heilbronn various buildings and places are named after Peter Bruckmann:

  • At the port, the Peter-Bruckmann-Brücke crosses the Neckar.
  • Bruckmannstrasse has been dedicated to the memory of the entire Bruckmann family since 1899 and is located on the former premises of the silverware factory.
  • A vocational school in downtown Heilbronn has been called the Peter Bruckmann School since September 2005 .
  • There is a bust of Bruckmann in the foyer of the Heilbronn Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

In the state capital of Stuttgart , in the area of ​​the Weißenhofsiedlung, the Bruckmannweg is named after Peter Bruckmann as sponsor of the Werkbund exhibition of 1927.

The Peter-Bruckmann-Weg and the Peter-Bruckmann-Brücke have been located in the Austrian Alps in Ferwall near the Heilbronner Hütte since 1929. This naming pays tribute to Bruckmann as the long-standing board member of the Heilbronn section of the Alpine Club and as the initiator of the construction of the Heilbronner hut.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim Hennze : Non cito sed certo. Not in a hurry, but conscientious. The Bruckmanns, a silverware dynasty from Heilbronn (1805 to 1973). In: Silver from Heilbronn for the world. P. Bruckmann & Sons (1805–1973). Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2001, ISBN 3-930811-90-1 , pp. 30–42. (= Heilbronn Museum Catalog , No. 96.)

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personal data
SURNAME Bruckmann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and patron
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1937
Place of death Heilbronn