Wilhelm Boetticher (businessman)

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Wilhelm Boetticher (born November 9, 1822 in Braunschweig ; † unsafe: 1901 in unsafe: Hanover ) was a German businessman who, among other things, owned the Wilh. Boetticher , "mechanical weaving and clothing factory " founded.

Life

Company sign and logo of Wilh. Boetticher , mechanical weaving and clothing factory
IG von der Linde relocated Boetticher to the newly created Karmarschstrasse

Wilhelm Boetticher took the newly built railway to Hanover in 1854, still at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover, to settle there. Three years later, in 1857, he opened his first place of business for his clothing retailer at Kniehauerstraße 44. At that time, guilds were still ruling in Hanover, which had around 34,000 inhabitants .

After about seven years as a wholesaler of “English and German manufactured goods ”, Boetticher was one of the most respected merchants in the city, as he was able to successfully handle the most diverse systems of measurements and weights at the time . For example, the meter had not yet prevailed against the meter bill . Also, the payment was complicated: In addition to the familiar in the Kingdom of Hanover pence , Georg dimes and dollars many foreign currencies were mostly unknown value in circulation. Boetticher immediately knew how to use the offers of the Hannoversche Bank, also founded in 1857, for his company and for smooth foreign trade between England and Hanover.

After the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia in 1866, the guild system gave way to freedom of trade ; In 1867 Wilhelm Boetticher and 19 other people founded the Chamber of Commerce in the Old Town Hall (today: Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hanover ).

Wilhelm Boetticher was a member of the management of the Hanover Trade Association for eight years .

After the death of the owner of the company IG von der Linde, Johann Georg von der Linde , Boetticher bought his business in 1872, which was also located at number 43 in the Knochenhauerstraße .

When, after the construction of Hanover's main train station and the Ernst-August-Stadt, the east-west breakthrough of Karmarschstrasse and Grupenstrasse began in 1879 across the city's centuries-old streets, Boetticher bought the corner buildings at Osterstrasse 93 and 94, respectively Karmarschstrasse 14 . In this better traffic situation he now relocated his “ wholesale company Wilh. Boetticher ”and the“ detail company IG von der Linde ”, which was bought again in 1901 by Wilh. Boetticher was separated, the year of the presumed death of Boetticher.

Before that, Boetticher had been appointed " purveyor to the king and emperor" in 1899 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Waldemar R. Röhrbein : LINDE, Johann Georg von der. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 234.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i N.N .: Wilh. Boetticher In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover 1954.
  3. ↑ a b Traditions on boetticher-zunft.de, accessed on September 20, 2013.
  4. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Hannoversche Bank. 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 , pp. 258f.
  5. ^ Rainer Ertel : Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Hanover. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 316.
  6. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Linde - IG von der Linde, laundry u. Fashion. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 405f.
personal data
SURNAME Boetticher, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Entrepreneur in Hanover, co-founder of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1901
Place of death uncertain: Hanover