August Helms

August Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Helms, painting by Richard Eddelbüttel

Heinrich Christian Wilhelm August Helms (born April 20, 1847 in Salzderhelden , † June 22, 1920 in Harburg ) was a senator , businessman and founder of the museum association for the city and district of Harburg .

Life

In 1876 August Helms became the owner of a coal and timber business . In 1888 he traded flour and animal feed in a Hamburg office throughout Europe . In 1897 he acquired the Harburg Castle Mill, which was built by Duke Otto I in 1527. August Helms was a board member and founder of numerous associations, such as the Harburg citizens' association from 1894. In 1898 he set the course for the future Archaeological Museum Hamburg - Helms-Museum with the establishment of the museum association for the city and district of Harburg . August Helms was buried in the old Harburg cemetery after his death .

Honors

In 1950 the Helmsweg in Hamburg-Harburg was named after August Helms.

literature

• Adalbert Holtz, Horst Homann: The street names of Harburg along with city history tables and a street map . according to documents from the Hamburg State Archives, Harburg office. Lühmanndruck, Hamburg 1970.
• Sabine Knoll: A short tour of the Harburg Old Cemetery. Dignitaries, art, city history . In: Publications of the Hamburg Museum for Archeology and the History of Harburg . No. 102 . Helms-Museum, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-931429-21-8 .
• Claus Gossler: Helms, August . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 181-182 .

Web links

• Helms-Museum zu August Helms (accessed December 14, 2011)