Wilhelm Bomann
Wilhelm Bomann (born January 4, 1848 in Celle ; † September 5, 1926 there ) was a German manufacturer, folklorist and founder of the Bomann Museum in Celle.
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Wilhelm Bomann was the son of Georg Christian Bomann, whose ancestors came to Celle from Sweden in the 18th century and initially operated the furrier trade and later made woolen goods. Bomann's father founded a wool yarn spinning and dyeing mill on the Fuhse in 1837 (today the site of the police station). He attended the Ernestinum in Celle and did a commercial training in Bielefeld from 1863 to 1867 . After completing his apprenticeship, Bomann worked in the American branch of his father's company in New York . From 1873 he was a partner in his father's company, which he took over in 1877 after his father's death. In 1909 he handed the company over to his adoptive son Fritz Wierß, who sold it in 1912.
Bomann's passion was collecting rural and urban utensils, which he stored in attics in his hometown. He was a member of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony , was a co-founder of a museum association founded in Celle in 1878, which opened a patriotic museum in Bergstrasse in 1892 . The museum developed into a large local museum and was able to constantly enlarge and expand the collection, so that in 1907 a new building was built at the current location on Schlossplatz.
In 1907 Bomann became an honorary citizen of Celles and in 1918 was made an honorary professor at the Prussian Ministry of Culture . In 1923 Bomann gave up the management of the museum for health reasons, which was renamed the Bomann Museum in 1928 . Wilhelm Bomann died in Celle in 1926. In 1905 he was accepted into the Celle Masonic Lodge "Zum hellleuchtenden Stern".
Bomann's rhetoric was anecdotal, with which he talked about exhibits for the museum at Heidebauern and raised donations from citizens of Celle. He wrote the book "Rural Housekeeping and Daily Work in Old Lower Saxony", which he did not live to see published.
Web links
literature
- Wilhelm Bomann: Rural Housekeeping and Daily Work in Old Lower Saxony , 1927
- RWLE Möller: Celle-Lexikon , Celle, 1987
- RWLE Möller: Streets in Celle - Where we live , Celle 1995
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bomann, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manufacturer and folklorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Celle |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1926 |
| Place of death | Celle |