Franz Emil Anton Haldy

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Emil Haldy
Tomb of the Haldy family in the old old Saarbrücken cemetery

Emil Haldy (born May 31, 1826 in Saarbrücken , born Franz Emil Anton Haldy ; † November 25, 1901 ibid) was a German local politician, secret councilor , industrialist and honorary citizen of Sankt Johann .

Life

Emil Haldy came from an old and wealthy merchant family from Saarbrücken. He was the eldest son of the banker and industrialist Johann Anton Haldy (1790–1867), his mother was Cäcilia Emilia nee. Binger. In 1848 Haldy joined his father's company with his younger brother Friedrich Alexander Isiodor (1828–1857). On April 30, 1849, he married Charlotte Maria (1828–1902), daughter of the Prussian Mining Authority Director Leopold Sello (1785–1874) in Saarbrücken. The children Franz Emil (1850–1916), Paul (1855–1877) and Maria (1857–1873) emerged from the marriage.

Haldy was buried on November 28, 1901 in the Alt-Saarbrücken cemetery.

Working as an industrialist

Emil Haldy is also considered to be one of the well-known industrial barons of the Saar district who achieved incredible wealth in the industrialization boom of the 19th century. In 1852 and 1854 the Haldy brothers operated coking plants in Altenwald and Heinitz (Neunkirchen) . You were involved in founding the ironworks in Pont-à-Mousson in the mid-1850s , after the death of his brother Emil Haldy founded the tube factory at the same location in 1862. In 1873 he and his eldest son Franz co-founded the Völklingen ironworks , which he bought from the auction on June 27, 1881 after it was closed, and sold to Carl Röchling on August 7 of the same year with a 35 percent profit . Emil Haldy occupied a supervisory board position at the pipe works founded in Bous in 1887, and his son Franz was a member of the founding board .

Public offices

Haldy was a member of the Saarbrücken Chamber of Commerce from 1864 to 1883 and its deputy chairman in 1886 until he left the chamber in dispute. From 1869 to November 24, 1890 he was a member of the city ​​council of Sankt Johann, until 1887 as an alderman .

Foundations

Headquarters of the Paul Marien Foundation
Figure of Telemachos at the foot of the trill stairs

The Paul-Marien-Stift

From a tragedy he had experienced himself, Emil Haldy also recognized the need to pay more attention to the human side of life than the interests of acquiring assets. After their two youngest children Paul and Maria died prematurely in quick succession, the Haldy couple transferred large parts of their assets to a charitable foundation from 1878 onwards. Their parent company was built on Großherzog-Friedrich-Strasse as a retirement and pension home, which was named Paul-Marien-Stift . On May 8, 1894, Haldy handed over the management to the incumbent pastor Ilse and transferred ownership of the foundation assets to the Evangelical parish of Sankt Johann . In 1904, through the Ilse Foundation, which was subsequently established, the property finally fell to the municipality and thus to the later city of Saarbrücken (from 1909), which quickly expanded the facility into a hospital. In gratitude, both Haldy and Ilse were made honorary citizens. Today the building is part of the Evangelical Hospital complex and houses the Paul-Marien-Hospiz, sponsored by the kreuznacher diakonie foundation .

The Telemach fountain

For the original development of the forecourt of the St. Johann town hall , Haldy donated a fountain with a central sculpture while he was still alive , but it was not completed until after his death in 1902. The figure of the young Telemachus , carved in white marble , based on the late classical style of ancient Greece , was created by Ludwig Cauer (1866–1947). Although never seen by the founder himself, the population always found the bright, naked figure to be offensive, so that the whole complex was finally dismantled in 1936 with the official justification of "lack of space" on the part of the city administration. The area that was freed in this way was never built on again. The statue, which was rediscovered in the rubble after the war , initially stood in a less prominent place in the palace garden , before it finally found its final place in a niche wall erected at the foot of the Trillertreppe in 1976 in Vorstadtstrasse - without any connection to the original fountain concept.

Honors

  • Appointment to the secret council of commerce
  • Appointment as honorary citizen of Sankt Johann (March 15, 1897)

See also

The mayor of Saarbrücken Friedrich Jakob Haldy (1788–1844) was his uncle. Located in the district of Sankt Johann Haldystraße and Paul Mary's Street and by 1913 the Paul-Marien Bridge (now Bismarckbrücke ) are reminiscent of the work of Haldy family.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cemetery Alt-Saarbrücken on the website of the Saarbrücker Friedhöfe (last accessed on March 17, 2014)
  2. ↑ Chronicle of the Völklinger Hütte (last accessed on January 2, 2014)
  3. ^ Heinrich Koch: 75 years of Röhrenwerke Bous (Saar) in: Tradition, magazine for company history and entrepreneur biography; 8th Jhrg., H. 1., pp. 15-28; Verlag CH Beck , February 1963
  4. ↑ Christof Trepesch: The series Archive / Saarland ; Sutton Verlag, 1999. ISBN 978-3-89702-105-1 , p. 94
personal data
SURNAME Haldy, Franz Anton Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haldy, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Secret Commerce Councilor, local politician and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1901
Place of death Saarbrücken