Richard Bömke

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Richard Bömke (born March 22, 1846 in Essen ; † March 26, 1907 ibid) was a German businessman, chairman of the supervisory board of the Friedrich der Große colliery and the Essen credit institution , councilor and city ​​councilor of the city of Essen.

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Walkable tomb at the Ostfriedhof Essen

Richard Bömke was born in Essen as the son of a businessman. After finishing school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in Lüdenscheid . This was followed by professional training in Marseille . His father died in 1871 and he took over his Bömke & Grevel hardware store . Bömke was most emerging coal mining in the Ruhr interested and bought mining shares and stocks.

Bömke became chairman of the supervisory board of the Friedrich der Große colliery in Herne . At Essener Credit-Anstalt he became a member of the supervisory board in 1888 and chairman of the supervisory board around 1905/1906. To this end, he held the office of city councilor in Essen from 1877 to 1906 and during this time worked closely with Mayor Erich Zweigert on the building and finance committee. Bömke was a member of the building deputation , whose heads were carved in stone under the eaves on the market side of the former Essen town hall (1878–1964) .

In addition, Bömke was active as a presbyter and representative in the Protestant community and was a board member in the Protestant orphanage as well as in the Huyssens Foundation and the Martin Wilhelm Waldthausen Foundation. The latter was merged with others to form the Foundation for Free Beds in 1993 . In 1884 Bömke was a co-founder of the Essen gymnastics and fencing club ETuF and a member of the board of the Essen department of the German Fleet Association .

After Bömke had made a great contribution to the construction of the hall in Essen , he was appointed to the council of commerce on September 21, 1898.

Richard Bömke was buried in the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor in 1907 . When this was abandoned in 1955 for urban planning reasons, the accessible tomb was transferred to the Ostfriedhof in Essen . In 1916, the Bömkestrasse in Herne was named after him.

literature

  • Hermann Schröter: Essen Commercial Councilors; in the hometown of Essen; 11th year . Essen 1959, p. 71 f .
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statutes of the Foundation for Free Beds ; accessed on September 12, 2017
  2. ↑ Glückauf. Berg- und Hüttenmännische Wochenschrift, Essen, October 15, 1898
  3. ^ City of Herne: Verkehr, Bömkestrasse ; accessed on February 7, 2016 (offline)
personal data
SURNAME Bömke, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, councilor of commerce and city councilor of the city of Essen
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1907
Place of death eat