Tonio Bödiker

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Tonio Bödiker

Anton Wilhelm Laurenz Karl Maria Bödiker , called Tonio Bödiker (born March 6, 1843 in Meppen ( Emsland ), † February 4, 1907 in Berlin ), was a top Prussian official (Secret Upper Government Council) and the first president of the Reich Insurance Office .

Life

Bödiker grew up in Haselünne in the Emsland . He was the son of the Arenberg district governor Wilhelm Julius Bödiker (1814-1892) and his wife Maria geb. Heyl (1822-1906). His maternal grandparents were Prefect Anton Heyl (1775-1854) and his wife Sophie Russell (1794-1861). He himself was married to Johanna Devens. The son Otto (district administrator in the Wipperfürth district) comes from the marriage . After attending school in Haselünne (elementary school) and Meppen (grammar school), where he also passed his Abitur , he studied at the universities of Heidelberg , Berlin and Göttingen . In 1864 he joined the judiciary. From 1871 he worked in the Ministry of the Interior before he was appointed district administrator of the Gladbach district in 1873 .

From 1884 to 1897 he was the first President of the Reich Insurance Office and in this capacity he wrote European social history. From 1897 to 1903 he was CEO of Siemens and Halske AG .

Bödiker was buried in the Hedwig Church in Berlin . In several German towns streets were named after him. In 1896 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Rheydt .

Honorable memory

Bust of Tonio Bödiker in the permanent exhibition of the German Historical Museum in Berlin

Just a few weeks after his death, a committee was founded in his hometown Haselünne with the aim of "building a worthy monument to Tonio Bödiker in his hometown Haselünne and a foundation bearing his name for social purposes." The sculptor Anton Rüller from Münster (Westphalia) was commissioned to create a memorial. The unveiling took place on June 29, 1909. Until 1967 the memorial stood between the train station and the elementary school. Relocated and redesigned several times, it has been in its original design in Haselünne on Bödikerplatz (Bahnhofstrasse) since 2008. The redesign of the Bödikerplatz and the renovation of the Bödiker memorial were financed with funding from the European Union ( LEADER program).

Another statue of Bödiker, designed and modeled by the sculptor Gerhard Janensch , was installed in the vestibule of the Reich Insurance Office in Berlin in 1910 .

Fonts

  • The admissibility of legal action and the conflicts of competence in the province of Hanover since the Supreme Ordinance of September 16, 1867. Berlin 1870.
  • The trade law of the German Empire. Berlin 1883.
  • Workers' insurance in European countries. Leipzig 1895.
  • The Reich insurance legislation. Leipzig 1898.

literature

  • Ulrich Adolf: Tonio Bödiker - an Emsländer wrote European social history. In: Yearbook of the Emsland Heimatbund. Volume 37/1991, Sögel (1990), pp. 243-253.
  • Ulrich Adolf: Bödiker, Tonio. In: Emsland history. Volume 6. Ed. By the Study Society for Emsland Regional History, Dohren 1997, pp. 145–151.
  • Ulrich Adolf: Tonio Bödiker (1843–1907). First President of the Reich Insurance Office. Sögel 2006.
  • Wolfgang Ayaß : Ways to social justice. Arbitration courts and Reich Insurance Office until 1945. In: Peter Masuch , Wolfgang Spellbrink, Ulrich Becker , Stephan Leibfried (eds.): Fundamentals and challenges of the welfare state. Memorandum 60 years of the Federal Social Court. Volume 1: Characteristics and future of social policy and social law. Berlin 2014, pp. 271–288.
  • Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 17 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hanoverian biography. Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866. Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, pp. 63–66.
  • Willy Rülander: On the history of the Bödiker monument in Haselünne. In: Haselünner Heimatfreund .. In: Vintage. 13, 2011, pp. 8-12.
  • Walter Vogel:  Bödiker, Tonio Wilhelm Laurenz Karl Maria. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 375 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See collection of sources on the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , Section II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February Decrees of Wilhelm II (1881–1890), Volume 2, Part 2: The Extension Legislation and the Practice of Accident Insurance , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Darmstadt 2001; Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914, III. Department: Expansion and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904), Volume 2, The revision of the accident insurance laws and the practice of accident insurance , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß, Darmstadt 2009.
  2. ^ Haselünner Zeitung. February 23, 1907.
  3. ^ Haselünner Heimatfreund. Volume 13 (2011), p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Bödiker, Tonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bödiker, Anton Wilhelm Laurenz Karl Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first President of the Reich Insurance Office
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Meppen
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1907
Place of death Berlin