Ernst Traugott Fritzsche

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Ernst Traugott Fritzsche

Ernst Traugott Fritzsche (* 2. February 1851 in Leipzig , † 21st December 1916 ) was a German businessman and 1906-1916 owner of the company Schimmel & Co. .

Life

Grave of Ernst Traugott Fritzsche and relatives, in the background the Fritzsche mausoleum

Ernst Traugott Fritzsche was the younger son of Hermann Traugott Fritzsche and his wife Henriette Louise, née Magnus (1820-1897). Like his older brother Hermann Traugott, he learned the trade of a businessman . During several years abroad, he got to know the requirements of international business transactions in order to join the management of Schimmel & Co. as a second partner from 1877 .

Together with his brother, he built his father's company into the world market leader in the industrial large-scale production of essential oils , natural and artificial fragrances and flavorings . When his brother died in 1906 while taking a cure in Marienbad , Ernst Traugott was entrusted with the management of the company, which he continued in the interests of his brother.

In addition to numerous other honors, he was appointed Privy Councilor of Commerce for his services to the German economy .

Ernst Traugott Fritzsche was first married to the German-American Ida Rosine Philine Hemmer, who died on November 21, 1879 in Leipzig at the age of 21. In his second marriage he married Magdalene Heller (1863–1950). There were three children from this marriage, including Hermann Fritzsche (1884–1949), who later became General Director of Schimmel & Co. AG .

The family had lived in a villa at Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse 37 since 1897 , which was destroyed in the Second World War. The monumental mausoleum that Ernst Traugott Fritzsche had built for himself and his family on the Südfriedhof in Leipzig provides information about the self-image of the business magnate , who, following a family tradition, supported numerous charitable foundations as well as scientific and social projects in his hometown . When he died after a long illness during the First World War , he was only buried there temporarily. Not far from this place he rests today, next to his wife and his eldest son, in an earth grave.

literature

  • Karl August Fritzsche : The career of Schimmel & Co. Aktiengesellschaft over a period of 100 years (1829-1929) , Schimmel & Co., Miltitz near Leipzig 1929.
  • September 1, 1829-1929. The jubilee of Schimmel & Co. Aktiengesellschaft Miltitz near Leipzig , Schimmel & Co. AG, Leipzig 1929.
  • Alfred E. Otto Paul: The mausoleum of Ernst Traugott Fritzsche and the graves of the Fritzsche family , in: The art in silence. Art treasures at Leipzig cemeteries , vol. 2, Leipzig 2010, p. 10ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ To Ernst Traugott Fritzsche z. B. the Foundation of the House for the Work of the Blue Cross , today House of the City Mission , back.
personal data
SURNAME Fritzsche, Ernst Traugott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1916
Place of death Leipzig