Ferdinand Heydrich

Ferdinand Heydrich in front of his sculpture, Matanzas 1889

Ferdinand Heydrich Klein (born January 26, 1827 in Barmen , Rhine Province ; died April 1, 1903 in Matanzas , Cuba ) was a German businessman, politician and sculptor.

Politically engaged, he played an important role in the conflict of the Ten Years' War in Cuba. Married to Maria-Candelaria Martínez y Valdez, he was a plantation owner, trader, engineer and also created stone sculptures and watercolors. He is the ancestor of the artists Daniel Garbade and Juan Esnard Heydrich , and father of Emilio Heydrich . Heydrich died in Matanzas in 1903 and is buried in the cemetery of the Necrópolis de San Carlos Borromeo under a monument in the form of a column.

Matanzas Aqueduct

Source Bello, Matanza

In 1845 Manuel del Portillo initiated the idea of an aqueduct for the drinking water supply of Matanzas without success . The project of the engineer and captain Francis Albear y Lara also met with resistance. When Juan F. Sanchez y Bárcena failed in a similar project, the German engineer Ferdinand Heydrich took matters into hand with G. Fabra y Cabanillas and his company Heydrich & Cie and was commissioned in 1870 for a water canal from the Bello y Benavides springs according to Matanzas. This Matanzas aqueduct is still a landmark of the city and was chosen as a national monument in 2005 .

Industry

Heydrich was one of the first producers of Agave fourcroydes on the island. With his son Alfredo and his company Heydrich y Raffoler & Cie, he applied for the patent , which he finally got after a long dispute and thus started a new type of production in Cuba, which at that time only few knew.

politics

During the uprising of the rebels in the Ten Years War , Heydrich played an essential role as founder and president of the Club de los Alémanes , which had the task of founding a volunteer militia and in this way protecting the goods of German and other foreign merchants. To this end, he had Otto von Bismarck's agreement with the condition of maintaining neutrality .

Individual evidence

↑ Fernando Heydrich (1827-1903) - Find A Grave ... In: find a grave. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
↑ Antonio Garca Santa Maria: Economía y colonia: la economía cubana y la relación con España (1765-1902) . CSIC Press, Madrid 1900, ISBN 84-00-09008-X , Produccion y problemas de fin de siglo, p. 291 (Spanish, books.google.es ).
^ Prussia and Latin America. in the field of tension between commerce, power and culture . LIT Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6306-9 , p. 204 ( books.google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Heydrich, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heydrich Klein, Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German businessman, politician and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 26, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barmen , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1903
Place of death	Matanzas , Cuba

[1] Fernando Heydrich (1827-1903) - Find A Grave ... In: find a grave. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .

[2] Antonio Garca Santa Maria: Economía y colonia: la economía cubana y la relación con España (1765-1902) . CSIC Press, Madrid 1900, ISBN 84-00-09008-X , Produccion y problemas de fin de siglo, p. 291 (Spanish, books.google.es ).

[3] Prussia and Latin America. in the field of tension between commerce, power and culture . LIT Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6306-9 , p. 204 ( books.google.de ).