August Happold

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College and students of the Feuerbach daughter school in the school year 1899–1900
Mrs. Happold in the Feuerbach children's kitchen, 1914

August Happold (born June 20, 1846 in Schwäbisch Hall , † March 14, 1922 in Stuttgart ) was a manufacturer, school founder and philanthropist in Feuerbach near Stuttgart.

Life

August Happold was initially managing director of the paint and varnish factory Christian Lechler & Sohn. After the death of the owner, he and Hermann Haaß bought the factory from Paul Lechler , the son of the company's founder, in 1878 . The company produced all types of paint and varnish and in 1909 employed around 70 people (37 workers, 3 workers plus employees)

In 1887 he had a building in the historicist style built by the foreman and architect Gerlach from his own resources and made available for school purposes, initially for the secondary school founded in 1886 by the secondary school teacher Blersch. Together with 11 other fathers, he founded the " Private Daughter School " in Feuerbach in 1897 . The founders do not want their daughters to have to walk the long way to school in the city of Stuttgart to share the school desk with the boys as part of co-education. Initially, the school building was in the house of master craftsman Louis Fahrion on Karlsplatz, today's Wilhelm-Geiger-Platz, then in the later Happoldstift in Leobener Straße.

The private daughter school was run by senior real teacher Eugen Geiger. In 1908 this private girls' school passed to the community. A housekeeping school was later housed here, which was inaugurated on October 6, 1913. As early as 1888, Happold gave this schoolhouse to the municipality as a gift (Happoldstift). Today, a branch of the Feuerbach commercial vocational school is housed in this listed building.

Appreciation

In 1908 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Feuerbach.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stuttgart City Archives
  2. ↑ Festschrift Paul Lechler, Stuttgart 1954. Quoted in 1 ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 384 kB) and 2 ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 317 kB)
  3. ↑ Happoldstift
  4. ↑ New high school. ( Memento from February 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Happold, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Manufacturer of lacquers and varnishes as well as school founder and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Hall
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1922
Place of death Stuttgart