Franz Ludwig Go
Franz Ludwig Gehe (born May 7, 1810 in Merkwitz (Oschatz) , † June 22, 1882 in Dresden ) was a German chemical-pharmaceutical wholesaler and industrialist, politician and philanthropist.
Live and act
The businessman Franz Ludwig Gehe founded the drugstore and dye store Gehe & Comp on May 1, 1835 . in Dresden . In 1846 the company moved into its first own business and retail space in Dresden's Königstrasse .
1859 joined the company with the pharmacist and chemist Rudolph August Luboldt (1831-1894) Gehes' later successor.
1865 on the Leipziger Strasse built a first manufacturing building, in the following year, 1866, was there Drugs and finishing Institution Go & Co. opened, from which, after the Second World War along with Madaus the drug Dresden plant to be built. Gehes wholesaling in Königstrasse continued until 1908.
From 1842 to 1851 he was a deputy member of the trade and factory sector in the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament , then from 1860 to 1868 he had the full mandate in the 1st electoral district.
Shortly before his death, Gehe donated 2 million marks to the Commercial Academy , from which the Gehe Foundation was created in 1885 .
Franz Ludwig Gehe died in Dresden in 1882. His grave is in the St. Pauli Cemetery in Dresden, the grave figures and the bust of Franz Ludwig Gehes were created by Johannes Schilling . In the Leipzig suburb , the road connecting Erfurter Straße and Moritzburger Platz is called Gehestraße .
literature
- Theodor Petermann: Franz Ludwig Gehe and the Gehe Foundation . V. Zahn & Jaensch, Dresden 1896 ( digitized version )
- Hermann Arthur Lier : Go, Franz Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 263-265.
- Walther Döring: Go, Franz Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 131 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 . Dresden 2001, p. 99.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Go, Franz Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemical-pharmaceutical wholesaler and industrialist, politician and philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merkwitz near Oschatz |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1882 |
| Place of death | Dresden |