Robert Stoffert

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Robert Stoffert (* 7. August 1898 in Osterode am Harz , † 15. November 1965 in Hannover ) was a German entrepreneur and horticulture - inspector .

Life

Born in the Harz Mountains in the early days of the German Empire as the grandson of the businessman and artist Friedrich Stoffert , Robert Stoffert took over the management of the Liststadt plantation in Hanover during the Weimar Republic and after the German hyperinflation in 1924 , which he expanded into an internationally respected company .

In 1926, Stoffert's son Gerhard Stoffert was born.

So far, no particular knowledge has been available about Stoffert's work during the Nazi era from 1933 to 1945. During the time of the British occupation zone , in 1947 he co-founded the faculty for horticulture and national culture at the then Technical University of Hanover . In addition, Stoffert founded the horticulture business consultancy .

Robert Stoffert was honored with the award of the Federal Cross of Merit.

Robert-Stoffert-Strasse

Robert-Stoffert-Straße in the Hanover district of List , named in 2003, honors the co-founder of the Faculty for Horticulture and Regional Culture at the site of his formerly managed Liststadt plantation .

literature

  • Gerhard Stoffert: Robert Stoffert. His family and the Liststadt plantation on Podbielskistraße , Hannover-Klein-Buchholz, 2013; contents

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stoffert, Robert in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of March 20, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library and cross-references
  3. ↑ a b c N.N. : Stoffert / Robert in the list of street names to be retained (of the state capital Hanover), ed. by the Urban Remembrance Culture team under the working title Scientific examination of eponymous personalities , downloadable from the hannover.de website in the version dated March 20, 2016
  4. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Hanover Street Names - Changes since 2001 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 57/58, 2003/2004, pp. 277-286; here: p. 283
personal data
SURNAME Stoffert, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and horticultural inspector, co-founder of a faculty at the University of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterode am Harz
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1965
Place of death Hanover