Adam Herbert

Adam Herbert (born July 14, 1887 in Groß-Gerau , † September 2, 1976 in Wiesbaden ) was a German pharmacist, entrepreneur and patron of the city of Wiesbaden.

After attending grammar school in Darmstadt , Herbert studied pharmacology at the University of Munich . When he returned to his hometown, he first set up a pharmaceutical laboratory and later a pharmacy in Wallau . Finally, in 1927, he settled in Bierstadt , a suburb of Wiesbaden, and built a pharmaceutical company there with active ingredients he had developed himself . His entrepreneurial skills led to the establishment of a branch in Argentina in 1932.

He used part of the generated wealth to improve the urban development of Wiesbaden. With the help of a donation of 152,000 Reichsmarks in 1937 on the derelict site of the former Taunus station by the Wiesbaden-based landscape architect Wilhelm Hirsch a park that bears his name Herbert systems created. In 1958 he donated the Diana fountain in front of the newly built Rhein-Main-Hallen , for which his granddaughter Ursula Altenheimer was the model. In recognition of his funding, the city of Wiesbaden made him an honorary citizen in 1962 .

Herbert spent his twilight years on the farm at Hausen in Eisenbach , which he had acquired in 1928. After his death he was buried in the Bierstadt cemetery.

literature

• Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries. Wiesbaden 1992.
• G. Baumgart-Buttersack: Adam Herbert. In: Mattiaca, Society for the maintenance of dialect and city history of Wiesbaden (ed.): The legacy of Mattiaca. Wiesbaden 1992.
• Kurt Buchholz: Wiesbaden monuments. Wiesbaden 2004.