Reinhold Schleese

Reinhold Schleese (born October 21, 1863 in Dambeck near Salzwedel , † August 4, 1929 in Hanover ) was a German elementary school teacher and co-founder of the Hanover port company for the operation of the Brinker port .

Life

Reinhold Schleese was born in 1863 as the offspring of an old family of teachers whose ancestor was confirmed by Frederick the Great with a handwritten note . He was the seventh of ten children of the teacher Georg Joachim Heinrich Schleese (born July 9, 1824 in Eversdorf / Altmark; † March 28, 1894 in Ziethnitz ) and his wife Marie Dorothea Katharina Bade (born September 21, 1833 in Darnebeck; † Born May 27, 1903 in Salzwedel). After attending school, Schleese went to Lüneburg in the early days of the German Empire and completed the teachers' seminar there , before becoming a teacher in Wennebostel in 1884 . There, in Wedemark , he married Sophie Klingemeyer in 1887, "the daughter from the farm next door", who gave birth to a son Reinhold on November 27, 1890 in Wenneborstel. In 1902 Schleese had himself transferred to Brink so that his son could have a shorter way to school at what was then the Ratsgymnasium at Georgsplatz in Hanover. The village Brink was formerly the Office Langenhagen scoring settlement later on, Langenhagen was incorporated and still later to Hanover.

Reinhold Schleese, who taught the second grade of elementary school in Brink, dealt between 1908 and 1910 with the plans for the construction of the Mittelland Canal and the approximately 800 meter long canal section from Vinnhorst to Brink, as well as with considerations for a possible benefit for his village. Soon promoted to the primary school teacher in confidential discussions and without the city of Hanover learned something about the construction of their own ship investor or even a port for that time in and around Brink already established industry . Schleese met with skepticism and rejection from the members of the municipal council , however : the villagers were fundamentally against the canal because it would cut through their fields, the dams possibly taking their beautiful distant view of Hanover with the tower of the market church and other towers would. The investments required were also beyond their imagination.

Tractor of the former port railway of the Ruhrthaler Maschinen-Fabrik Schwarz & Dykerhoff , to which Henry Schleese had the cast-iron lettering "Schleese" attached

But instead of the villagers, Reinhold Schleese was soon able to win over larger companies for his idea, for example the former oilcloth manufacturer JH Benecke , Hackethal-Draht und Kabel AG or the iron foundry Krigar & Ihssen , which also have their own railway systems for connecting their factories to the Royal Prussian State Railways wished. Schleese also convinced the owners of large plots of land to participate , such as the Vinnhorst farmer Heinrich Baumgarte , “[...] whose grandson Henry Baumgarte still [as of 2000] shares in the majority of the since the first half of the [nineteen hundred] nineties Port company owned by the city of Hanover. "

Despite the involvement of a large group of people, the preliminary talks up to the signing of the articles of association for the founding of the port company could be kept secret from the city of Hanover and the public, and so the Hanoverian magistrate, and with him the Hanoverian city director Heinrich Tramm, were completely surprised when they met in autumn Founded in 1912.

Reinhold Schleese became both the initiator and co-founder of the port company for port operations and for connecting the railway to Vinnhorst station , which - immediately after the completion of the Mittelland Canal - was the first of the Hanoverian ports to start operating in 1916 - before Linden harbor .

Reinhold-Schleese-Strasse

With the Reinhold-Schleese-Straße , which was laid out in 2002 in the Hanoverian district of Brink-Hafen , the state capital of Hanover has honored the co-founder of the Brinker Hafengesellschaft with the name of the street.

Further honors

On the day of the 75th anniversary of the Brinker Hafen, the grandson of Reinhold Schleese, who previously worked in a managerial position at Hackethal and later at Kabelmetal , screwed a sign with the words "Schleese-Platz" on the port administration building. A cast iron shield with the name “Schleese”, which he had been given himself, was then attached to the small port railway that had previously been “decommissioned” .

Archival material

An archive on the life and work of Reinhold Schleeses there is, for example,

• a portrait - photograph on the wall of the meeting room of the administration building of the Brinker Hafen.

literature

• Helmut Zimmermann : From Broyhan to Schwitters. Life pictures of well-known Hanoverians , Hanover 1989, pp. 72–75

Individual evidence

1. ^ Schleese, Reinhold in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version dated March 17, 2016
2. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Brinker Hafen. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 84.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Dierk Schröder, Thilo Wachholz (Red.), Dieter Tasch : The secret plans of the village of Brink. In: Urban landscape and bridges in Hanover. The Mittelland Canal as a modern shipping route , ed. from the Wasser- und Schifffahrtsdirektion Mitte , Hannover, Hannover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000, ISBN 3-87706-557-0 , p. 58f .; online through google books
4. ↑ Renate Knetsch: The Schleese family. (Schleese family archive)
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Schleese, Reinhold. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 315
6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Brink port. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 84f.
7. ↑ Helmut Zimmerman : Hanover's street names - changes since 2001. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 57/58, 2003/2004, pp. 277–286; here: p. 282