Caspar Hermann Heye

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Caspar Hermann Heye (born July 10, 1792 in Lippstadt ; † September 28, 1864 in Bremen ) was a Bremen businessman and entrepreneur .

biography

Heye was the son of the businessman Ernst August Wilhelm Heye (1760-1827). He completed a commercial apprenticeship with his future father-in-law, a businessman in Minden . In 1814 Heye settled down as a merchant in Bremen and acquired Bremen citizenship in 1820. In 1820 he bought the Duisenbergpche Erbe am Werder with a packing house and glass warehouse in Bremen and founded the Hermann Heye company in Werderstraße in 1821 , a factory that produced white and green hollow glass . In 1823 he took over part of the Obernkirchener Glashütte, founded in 1799, from Conrad Storm. In 1842 he became the sole owner of the Obernkirchener Glashütte, which from then on bore the name Hermann Heye and eventually became Heye International . In 1843 he became the sole owner of a glassworks in Obernkirchen that had been in operation with Glasmeister Becker since 1824. Heye became Bremen's Eltermann in 1834 (spokesman or head of the merchants) and in 1849 the first President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce . He later owned several other factories ( Wendthöhe glass factory near Stadthagen , Steinkrug glass factory near Hanover , Heye glass factory in Nienburg / Weser ) that produced bottles, glasses, crystal, porcelain and earthenware. Some of his factories existed until 1931/1932, the Bremen factory, most recently in Dortmunder Strasse, existed until the 1970s.

He was married to Isabella Wilhelmine Luise Heye, née Grallenkampp, and had four children. Ferdinand Heye (1837–1889), his fourth and youngest son, had his inheritance paid out in 1864 and founded the world-famous Gerresheimer Glashütte in southern Düsseldorf-Gerresheim .

Honors

  • The Hermann Heye Street in Bremen- Neustadt (On the Werder) bears his name.
  • The Heyestraße in Dusseldorf-Gerresheim, however, was named after his son.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Windows in the monument, conference contributions, 2006, Lukas Verlag, p. 51

literature

personal data
SURNAME Heye, Caspar Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bremen businessman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1864
Place of death Bremen