Wilhelm Kröpcke

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Wilhelm Kröpcke (born January 1, 1855 in Bleckede , † September 21, 1919 in Bad Kissingen ) was a restaurateur in Hanover . The central inner city square in Hanover was named Kröpcke after his coffee house .

Life

From 1878 Kröpcke worked as a head waiter at Café Robby in Hanover and supported the tenant widow Siercke. In the same year, the citizens' association had the architect Conrad Oertel set up a weather pillar with a clock in front of the café, which is now known as the Kröpcke clock . In 1885 Wilhelm Kröpcke himself became the tenant of the business.

The city acquired the café in 1893 and had it expanded the following year by the architect Emil Lorenz. From 1895, Wilhelm Kröpcke changed the name of the coffee house to Café Kröpcke . It was a popular meeting place, especially for artists.

On October 16, 1909, Kröpcke was accepted into the Freemason Lodge Gustav Adolf for Justice in Magdeburg .

When the lease for the coffee house expired in 1909, the city wanted to demolish the building in order to have a larger new building constructed by the architect Alfred Sasse . The magistrate wanted to take over the lucrative business on its own. This was rejected by the mayor colleges . Kröpcke was able to lease the café again, but at a significantly higher lease price. Wilhelm Kröpcke ran the café until his death in 1919. His successor was Emil Pfefferle (1880–1936) from Karlsruhe , who also owned Café Continental .

literature

  • Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.): Café Kröpcke. 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 , p. 104f.
  • The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927. Leipzig, p. 395.
  • The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1954. Hanover, p. 349f.
  • Th. Pfarr: Let's go to the Kröpcke. 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon: from the beginnings to the present. Excerpts from Google Books
  2. ↑ Also called Sierke in other sources, hence the spelling: Sier (c) ke
  3. ^ Siegfried Schildmacher, Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (ed.): Wilhelm Kröpcke . In Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover . Self-published, Hannover 2015, p. 91
  4. ↑ Café Continental ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heimatsammlung.de
personal data
SURNAME Kröpcke, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German restaurateur in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Bleckede
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1919
Place of death Bad Kissingen