Ernst Heinrich Kahrweg
Ernst Heinrich Kahrweg (born March 15, 1818 in Bremen ; † November 15, 1880 in Bremen) was a German entrepreneur.
biography
Kahrweg came from a family of craftsmen in Bremen. The father ran a distillery, then an inn and a timber trade. In the 1860s the brothers Ernst Heinrich and Hermann Wilhelm Kahrweg founded a tea wholesaler at Langenstrasse 42. The Kahrweg company existed until the 1950s.
In 1880 Ernst Heinrich Kahrweg founded an infirmary . The Kahrweg Asylum for poor sick people was built in 1881/82 according to plans by the architect Johannes Rippe at Nordstrasse 116 in Bremen- Walle . Poor, not mentally ill people were taken in here. Around 1925 the house had up to 125 places for men and 221 places for women. It was destroyed in World War II.
The bust Kahrweg (1884) by the sculptor Diedrich Samuel Kropp commemorates the founder. It was originally in the garden of the Kahrweg Asylum and has been in the garden of the Landhaus Horn foundation residence in Schwachhausen since 1962 .
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kahrweg, Ernst Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1880 |
| Place of death | Bremen |