Dannie N. Heineman

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Dannie N. Heineman (born November 23, 1872 in Charlotte , North Carolina , † January 31, 1962 in Greenwich , Connecticut ) was a Belgian-American engineer and manager.

Life

Born in the USA in 1872 , Dannie N. Heineman was the child of the Jewish emigrants Minna and James Heinemann, who originally came from Germany . After the father died early , the mother from Lower Saxony returned to Germany with her son, moved to Hanover in 1883 and opened a pension there .

Memorial plaque of the city of Hanover from 1982 at Heinemanhof

Dannie soon studied at the Technical University in Hanover. After graduating as an electrical engineer on July 18, 1893, he was employed by what would later become AEG in Berlin . The requirement for product licensing by General Electric was the employment of three US citizens. Heineman, along with two other employees, contributed to meeting this quota. In 1901, AEG took part in the Belgian Union Electrique and sent Heineman to Brussels as local director. The Union Electrique in 1905 by AEG with Heineman to the Société de Transports et Financier d'Enterprises Industrial SA sold. Dannie N. Heineman managed Sofina from 1905 to 1955.

When Belgium was occupied by German troops at the beginning of the First World War in 1914 , Heineman negotiated between the governments of the German Reich, the United Kingdom, France and later the United States and was thus able to establish the Comité National de Secours et d'Alimentation and the Commission for Relief in Belgium , which supported the food supply of the Belgian population during the First World War. Later, in the 1950s, the Belgian government accepted Heineman into the Order of Leopold II (Belgium) in recognition of these efforts and promoted him there to Grand Officier.

Meanwhile, Dannie's mother Minna had died in Hanover in 1927 and was buried there. The death of his "dear mother" prompted Heineman, who had meanwhile become fortune, to found the Minna James Heineman Foundation in 1928 "in memory of his studies in Hanover and in memory of his parents". In order to carry out the foundation's purposes, "Heinemann" commissioned the architect Henry van de Velde to build the Heinemanhof , an old people's home for

"Older, needy single women of the educated classes, preferably of the Jewish faith [...] from the city of Hanover ..."

Heineman campaigned for the German Reich to join the League of Nations . In 1933, the regime had Adolf Hitler , Konrad Adenauer removed from his offices and blocked his accounts, to which Dannie Heineman the former mayor of Cologne 10,000 Reichsmark was deliver.

In 1936, Dannie Heineman met Chaim Weizmann . Dannie Heineman, who was living in Belgium at the time, was able to persuade the Luxembourg government in 1939 to open the already closed borders to around 100 Jewish families coming from Germany. His convincing argument was that the hotels in Luxembourg were empty and that he would pay for the hotel rooms and the upkeep of the Jews. The Jews, for their part, would not work and so would not take away any jobs from the Luxembourg workers. This agreement worked until the German troops marched in on May 10, 1940. At this point in time, his assistant Schmidt handed over a final payment of six months' rent to the families. Among those supported in this way was the physicist Ernst Ising and his family, who survived persecution and war.

In 1940 the Heineman family moved from Brussels to Greenwich , Connecticut. At the end of the 1950s, Heineman wrote a letter of recommendation for Josef Cohn, with which he initiated the scientific collaboration between the Max Planck Society and the Weizmann Institute for Sciences in Rechovot .

Publications

literature

  • Ludwig Lazarus : Dannie N. Heineman , in: Life and Fate. For the inauguration of the synagogue in Hanover , with photos by Hermann Friedrich a. a., Ed .: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Presseamt, in cooperation with the Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover eV, Hannover: [Beeck in commission], [1963], pp. 139–143
  • Hans Werner Dannowski : "We're going to the village". Kirchrode , in: Hannover - far from near: In city districts on the move , Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-653-4 , pp. 151–176, here: pp. 162f .; online through google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans Werner Dannowski: "We're going into the village" ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b See this photo of the memorial plaque from 1982
  3. ↑ The MinnaJamesHeinemanStiftung ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stiftungen.stifterverband.info
  4. ↑ Title: AEG-Union Electrique SA - Listing: Action 250 Frs. from 1905 (blankette).
  5. ↑ Compare this city ​​table Hanover number 80, "Brabeckstraße 86"
  6. ↑ Gussie Adenauer to her husband: “A gentleman from Berlin was just here who brought a package from Heinemann's friend (content 10,000.-). I'll drive to Oppenheim immediately and have it noted on our account. Fine, gel? "(Henning Köhler: Konrad Adenauer and Dannie Heinemann in: Thomas Karlauf (ed.): Deutsche Freunde, rororo Reinbek 1997, p. 365)
  7. ↑ http://www.heineman-stiftung.org/e-heineman/stifter  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heineman-stiftung.org
personal data
SURNAME Heineman, Dannie N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Belgian electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlotte , North Carolina, United States
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1962
Place of death Greenwich , Connecticut, United States