Emma Schmelz

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Emma Schmelz (born July 5, 1877 in Hanover ; † May 26, 1930 ibid) was a German businesswoman and entrepreneur . The health food store Schmelz , which she founded at the beginning of the 20th century, developed into the largest company in the life reform movement in Europe by the 1970s .

Live and act

Born a few years after the Empire proclamation of the German married Emma melting Gerhard melting (* / Mai 1872 in Hanover;. † February 23, 1953 ibid), which in Hanoverian Lessingstraße a wholesale for tropical fruits for operation and 1907 in Dieterich road a small mail- connected would have.

During the First World War , Emma Schmelz opened the health food store Hannover - Emma Schmelz in Osterstrasse , with which she offered healthy food such as mushrooms, Rabenhorster grape juice , products of the Eden brand or Achimer bread during the war years .

During the Weimar Republic , Emma Schmelz took over the Hanoverian sole agency for corsets and shoes of the Thalysia brand . In 1927 she bought the building at Osterstrasse 84 and, after a renovation, opened a modern shop there based on plans by Professor Walter Wickop .

After the company's founder died, her daughter Helene and her husband Franz Thiemann, who joined the business in 1927, took over the health food store Schmelz. In 2001, 26 branches of the health food store were integrated into the health food store Bacher .

Honors

According to a council resolution of December 9, 1999, future names of streets, paths, squares and bridges in the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover are to be named predominantly after women, since as of August 2011, of the 3486 locations of this type in Hanover, only 157 are named after women and 1208 were named after men. Emma Schmelz was suggested as one of many others to which a corresponding location could be dedicated.

literature

  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Schmelz, Emma. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 317f.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Health food store Schmelz. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 518.
  • Christine Kannenberg, Sabine Popp (Red.), Luise F. Pusch , Annette Volland (research): Emma Schmelz. In: Important women in Hanover. A help for future naming of streets, paths, squares and bridges after female personalities , ed. from the City of Hanover, Department for Women and Equality, Department of Planning and Urban Development, Hanover: City of Hanover, August 2011, p. 48.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Reformhaus Schmelz (see literature)
  2. ^ A b Florentine Fritzen: Franz Thiemann (1906–2000) , in this: Healthier living. The life reform movement in the 20th century (= Frankfurt historical treatises , vol. 45), Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-515-08790-2 and ISBN 3-515-08790-7 , pp. 155f .; partly online via Google books
  3. ↑ a b c d e Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Schmelz, Emma (see literature )
  4. ↑ Christine Kannenberg, Sabine Popp (ed.), Luise F. Pusch, Annette Volland (research): Hildegard Braukmann (see literature)
  5. ↑ Uwe Bodemann, Brigitte Vollmer-Schubert: Introduction. In: Christine Kannenberg, Sabine Popp (Red.), Luise F. Pusch, Annette Volland (research): Sylvia Daniel. In: Significant women ... (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Schmelz, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businesswoman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1930
Place of death Hanover