Fonds Stadtarchiv Solingen, Na 005 - Na 005 Discount Rauh / Barche

The Na 5 collection unites the estate of Hermann Rauh (1863-1911), his son-in-law Karl Barche (1873-1945), his grandson Hermann Barche (1907-1981) and their immediate family.Na 5 is directly connected to the Fi 2 collection, as both Hermann Rauh and his grandson Hermann Barche were owners or shareholders of the Ew. v. Hofe Nachf. company. The meaningful division of the total volume into two inventories resulted in individual overlaps, e.g. in Hermann Rauh's balance sheets or property matters, so that it is always advisable to take a look at the related register when using it. At the end of this distortion there are also some individual references to Fi 2.<br /><br />Hermann Rauh was the younger son of the Solingen steel merchant Carl Daniel Rauh. When his father retired from the business in 1884, he and his brother Ernst took over the management of the company, which, after having worked in Schützenstrasse and Kaiserstrasse, had now set up its office and warehouse on Birkenweiher and Elisenstrasse. Hermann Rauh built a house in Elisenstraße No. 18, which after his early death also became the home of the Barche family. In 1885 he married Klara Egen, with whom he had two daughters. In 1907 Kornelia became the wife of Karl Barche, a teacher at the Gymnasium Schwertstraße; her younger sister Lisa died as early as 1910.<br /><br />The purchase of the sugar mould factory and galvanizing shop Ew. v. Hofe in Kaiserstraße am Höffgen in 1899 initiated Hermann Rau's farewell to his father's business, from which he resigned completely in 1902. While the archive holdings of Fi 2 Ewald v. Hofe Nachf. offer an insight into Hermann Rauh's work in the newly acquired company, the Na 5 estate holdings concentrate on his second business: real estate trading. The material for this can be found in part 2, but also in part 1.4 (property matters).<br /><br />Already since the beginning of the 1890s Rauh had tried his hand in the real estate business of the growing city and dealt with properties in the south (Ritterstraße, Müngstener Chaussee) and north (around the slaughterhouse). When the area of approx. 11,000 m² acquired with the purchase of the v. Hofe'sche factory was sold, he was now faced with a task which had particularly occupied him until his death. According to his plans, this was no less than the development of a completely new upscale residential street near the Solingen city centre. Part 2.3 provides a comprehensive insight into the development, planning, sales and development of the city and at the same time sheds light on the practices and problems of the city at the time. Building companies flourish and collapse, buyers of different creditworthiness are encountered, various financing attempts are seen and it becomes clear how important personal relationships were in this business milieu.<br /><br />In addition to the material for property trading, the other parts of the estate (in 1) are somewhat less important. However, as is always the case with transitions in the family business, the division of the inheritance is important, which must be followed in detail in 1.3 and 2.2. Parts 1.1 and 1.2 shed light on Hermann Rau's personality and his social and political commitment. after the death of her husband in 1911, Hermann Rau's wife and main heir Klara continued to run the family business, but did not expand the real estate business any further and essentially took care of the v. Hofe company and the administration of the houses in her possession.<br /><br />Karl Barche was not a man of the business who could or would have wanted to continue the business of his deceased father-in-law. He was the eldest son of the accounting officer Wilhelm Barche and grew up in Münster, where he also passed the Abitur examination. He then studied French, German and Latin in Münster and Berlin and taught at the Gymnasium Schwertstraße in Solingen from 1902 until his retirement in 1935. He had three brothers and sisters; his two brothers went into the civil service like him. With his wife Kornelia Rauh he had three sons and one daughter, and Karl Barche's estate contains a number of professional records and materials (Part 4). In addition to school, Barche was also involved in the National Liberal Party, later the DVP, the Solingen Scientific Association of the Roman Society (chair 1904-1945) and the Masonic Lodge. In these circles, as the large number of manuscripts shows, he was a zealous lecturer (parts 5 and 7). He felt particularly at home in political-historical, philosophical and anthropological topics.<br /><br /> Above all, the shock of the lost World War pushed the man for whom national unification in the Empire had been the great political achievement of his time to look for a way to overcome "national shame" and misery and to regain "honour" and independence. He believed he had found the solution in the study and strengthening of the German people and threw himself with great energy into the study of early Germanic history, mythology and symbolism. In addition to its own essays, the estate contains an extensive collection of articles and writings on these topics. The Ahnenerbe research association set up by Himmler as part of his SS empire also later counted Barche among its members. (Part 6). It remains astonishing that a man who studied and worked so much in France and French remained at a great distance from the philosophical and political thinking of his neighbouring country. It remains an attraction to investigate this contradiction.<br /><br />Hermann Barche was Karl Barche's eldest son. After graduating from high school in Schwertstraße in 1926 and several internships in companies in Solingen, he began studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Hanover in 1927 and graduated as an engineer in 1933. He then joined the company v. Hofe Nachf. in Solingen, which was run by his grandmother Klara Rauh, and remained there - interrupted by the soldier time in World War II - until the company was closed in 1978. Since 1964, after the division of the estate, he and his siblings were the sole owners of the factory. His legacy essentially consists of collected material from areas that were particularly close to his heart: his student fraternity and the contact with local liaison students, the local history and developments of modern technology. A separate work on the history of the sugar form industry and accompanying material collections can be found in Fi 2 (Part 1).<br /><br />The stock was catalogued by Hartmut Roehr in 2009; additional deliveries in 2011 were recorded by Ralf Rogge.<br /><br />Solingen, December 2011<br /><br />>

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