Carl Justus Heckmann

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Carl Justus Heckmann commemorative medal for the company's 50th anniversary

Carl Justus Heckmann (born May 3, 1786 in Eschwege ; † October 25, 1878 in Berlin ) was a German coppersmith and industrialist. He founded a factory for the construction of apparatus , initially especially for distilleries and distillation plants , in Berlin-Kreuzberg (Schlesische Straße), which subsequently developed into one of the leading large companies in the metal industry in Germany (West and East) and beyond .

Life

Commemorative sheet from Adolf von Menzel on the 50th anniversary of the company (1869)

Like his grandfather and father, Heckmann became a master coppersmith . From 1816 he worked as a journeyman in Berlin, where he became self-employed in 1819 and manufactured 12 equipment for sugar refining and distillery factories at Hausvogteiplatz. In the same year Johann Heinrich Leberecht Pistorius entrusted him with the construction and sale of his still. In 1822 he married Friederike Wilhelmine Reichnow, the daughter of master plumber George Friedrich Reichnow. With her he had four sons and four daughters. In 1826 he moved to Hausvogteiplatz .

In 1827 he was able to start the future main factory at Köpenicker Tor , which later became the Landwehr Canal in Berlin (at today's Heckmannufer). He set up the metal processing facility near the confluence of the Schafgraben with the Spree. On the one hand, there were good transport options here, residents were not bothered by smoke and noise, and the distance to neighboring buildings, as required by the fire police, could be maintained. In 1836 Stüler designed the brass foundry. The Ravené company participated in the investment until Heckmann became the sole owner in 1841. With the expansion of the Schafgraben to the Landwehr Canal, which was completed in 1850, he expanded the main business on its banks; Coal, metal and the finished products could be easily transported over the canal. This copper and brass rolling mill eventually extended to the Silesian and today's Taborstrasse in the later Kreuzberg district .

In 1829, the Counts of Voss called upon the royal master builder Salomo Sachs to build the new church tower in Birkholz , as constructor and site manager, Heckmann as coppersmith for the church roof and Carl August Mencke as gilder of the tower cross.

Heckmannwerke as subsidiary factories were established in Moscow in 1849 , in Breslau in 1851 , in Hamburg from 1856–1876 and in Havana in 1870 . Heckmann achieved world renown with his company. In 1869, after the company's 50th anniversary, he handed it over to his two sons August (1822–1896) and Friedrich (1836–1907) the company in Wroclaw and Duisburg. In 1875, Heckmann was able to win Eugen Gottfried Julius Hausbrand (1845–1922), the world's first process engineer, as a senior engineer . Due to his high level of professional competence, he rose to the position of sole authorized signatory in order to take over the management of the Berlin company for 40 years after Heckmann's death.

Carl Justus Heckmann and his wife were buried in the Luisenstadt cemetery on Südstern. Only the architecturally structured rear wall with new memorial plaques has survived from the representative hereditary burial . The grave monument for Heckmann's son Paul Heckmann, entrepreneur and employer representative, created around 1910 by Martin Altgelt, Heinrich Schweitzer and Otto Lessing is also located in the Luisenstadt cemetery .

Appreciations

The famous painting Eisenwalzwerk (1875) by Adolph von Menzel was created on the basis of numerous studies in the Heckmann companies in Berlin and Silesia. Old National Gallery , Berlin
Copper rolling mill during operation (1891)
"The granddaughter Hedwig married the then famous opera tenor Anton Woworsky." Woworsky figured in Mrs. Jenny Treibel as Adolar Krola . Portrait: Karl Gussow , 1878, Alte Nationalgalerie , Berlin
tomb

During his lifetime he was given the title of Privy Councilor of Commerce . The Heckmannufer on the Landwehr Canal in Berlin, near the first production facility, was named after the successful industrial family. The Villa Heckmann "Am Schlesischen Busch" (Schlesische Straße towards Treptow) designed by Heckmann's son-in-law Hermann Wentzel was used by Theodor Fontane as a model for the Villa Treibel in Frau Jenny Treibel . Carl Justus Heckmann's descendants later acquired properties in the block of houses in which the Heckmann planning office (Oranienburger Strasse 32) was located (1933–1970). The idyllic Heckmann-Höfe inside this block, which you enter through Oranienburger Straße 32, among other places, attracts numerous tourists after the reprivatisation from 1991 with boutiques, restaurants, handicrafts and studios.

Inventions

Heckmann patent floor

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Justus Heckmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin's first telephone book published in 1881 by Gerhild HM Komander p. 101.
  2. ↑ Gisela Buchheim, Rolf Sonnemann: Life pictures of engineering scientists: A collection of biographies from 2 centuries. Birkhäuser, 2013, p. 107. books.google.de
  3. ^ Frank Eberhardt: From craftsman to large industrialist. A still determined Carl Justus Heckmann's path . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 12, 1999, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 4–13 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  4. ↑ Gisela Buchheim, Rolf Sonnemann: Life pictures of engineering scientists: A collection of biographies from 2 centuries. Birkhäuser, 2013, pp. 106–114. (books.google.de)
  5. ↑ Mrs. Hedwig Woworsky, b. Heckmann. In: German Digital Library. accessed on March 17, 2018.
  6. ^ Stefan Rebenich: Theodor Mommsen and Adolf Harnack: Science and politics in Berlin at the end of the 19th century. de Gruyter, 2012, p. 159. (books.google.de)
  7. ↑ Kathrin Chod, Herbert Schwenk, Hainer Weisspflug: Heckmann-Höfe . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Mitte . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 ( luise-berlin.de - Berlin-Mitte , Oranienburger Strasse - as of October 7, 2009).
  8. ↑ Bernd Braumüller: Draeger - Vallette. Two Berlin families and their descendants. Selbstverlag, Rotenburg (Wümme) 2000, p. 295 ff., Especially p. 346, 339.
personal data
SURNAME Heckmann, Carl Justus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German coppersmith and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschwege
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1878
Place of death Berlin