Conrad Herold

Conrad Herold (born June 7, 1835 in Berlin ; † January 1, 1914 there ; full name: Conrad Ferdinand Bernhard Herold ) was a German entrepreneur in the textile industry .

origin

The Herold family originally comes from Ronneburg near Gotha in what is now Thuringia . The family came to Berlin with the cotton manufacturer and master weaver Georg Friedrich Herold (born October 26, 1780 in Ronneburg; † December 20, 1855 in Berlin). His son Conrad Herold was born on June 7, 1835.

Life

Invoice from the Shawls and Tücher factory C. Herold, Berlin

Conrad Herold grew up in secure circumstances and on April 14, 1860, married Anna Maria Agathe born in Berlin . Mindermann , a daughter of the Berlin hosiery manufacturer Christian Mindermann. Conrad Herold was able to successfully expand his father's company into the shawls and cloth factory C. Herold , based in the house at Grüner Weg 26 in Berlin. Around 1870 Conrad Herold sold his factory , retired and on January 21, 1873, together with Julius Theodor Ferdinand Boerner, acquired the forestry on the Pichelsberg for 79,000 thalers . Towards the end of the 1890s, Conrad Herold built the famous Seeschloß Pichelsberg am Stößensee restaurant for his son Erwin Conrad Hans Herold (born December 18, 1876 in Berlin, † December 7, 1950 in Bartelshof near Alt Thymen ) . In order to finance this investment, he took out a loan from A. Busse & Co. AG in Berlin , which he could no longer repay. He had already loaned his extensive property around the Pichelsberg from the beginning of the 1890s, the Pichelsberg lake castle did not generate the expected profit. After Conrad Herold's death, the property was therefore foreclosed .

literature

Hans E. Pappenheim: The Belvedere on the Pichelsberg. In: Martin Henning, Heinz Gebhardt (Hrsg.): Yearbook for Brandenburg State History. Volume 7 (1956), pp. 25-34.

Individual evidence

↑ Hans E. Pappenheim: The Belvedere on the Pichelsberg. In: Martin Henning, Heinz Gebhardt (Hrsg.): Yearbook for Brandenburg State History. Volume 7 (1956), p. 33.

personal data
SURNAME	Herald, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Herold, Conrad Ferdinand Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur in the textile industry
DATE OF BIRTH	June 7, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	January 1, 1914
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Hans E. Pappenheim: The Belvedere on the Pichelsberg. In: Martin Henning, Heinz Gebhardt (Hrsg.): Yearbook for Brandenburg State History. Volume 7 (1956), p. 33.