Friedrich Carl Hermann Heye

Friedrich Carl Hermann Heye (born September 16, 1870 in Hamburg ; † March 30, 1937 there ) was a Hamburg merchant and entrepreneur and from 1917 to 1918 President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce .

family

Heye came from the industrial family Heye and was the son of the businessman Friedrich Carl Theodor Heye (1832–1916) and Catharina Henriette, nee. Focke (1840–1929), daughter of the German doctor and naturalist Gustav Woldemar Focke (1810–1877). His uncle was Ferdinand Heye (1838–1889), the founder of the Gerresheimer Glashütte . His grandfather Caspar Hermann Heye (1792–1864) was a co-owner in the vicinity of Obernkirchen (Schaumburg-Lippe) in 1823 and from 1842 became the sole owner of the Schauenstein glassworks. His father set up a branch of this plant in Hamburg in September 1840, founded the Hermann Heye company there in 1861 and also took up residence in Hamburg.

Professional background

On August 31, 1895, at the age of 24, Heye joined his father's group of companies as an authorized signatory and became a partner on January 1, 1898. At that time, his father's operations included the Schauenstein glass factory in Obernkirchen , the Wendthöhe glass factory on Bückeberg near Stadthagen , the Steinkrug glass factory on Deister , the Annahütte glass factory in Niederlausitz and the Heye'schen glass factory in Nienburg / Weser , plus there were branches in Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin and Leipzig. Friedrich CH Heye observed the labor dispute, which his father put down from 1900 to 1901 over the approval of employee representatives in the plants in Obernkirchen and Nienburg (“The fight is king Heye”) from distant Hamburg, where he ran the business alone during this time . During his entrepreneurial days, the first fully automatic Owens production machines were introduced in 1906. In 1913 Heye was also able to acquire a glass factory in Flensburg and, by 1914, open new branches in Linden and Munich. After his father's death in 1916, FC Th. Heye Braunkohlenwerke AG Annahütte, founded by him in 1888, and the family ownership of the Heye lignite mine became the partnership FC Th. Heye Braunkohlenwerke GmbH in Annahütte N./L. and Wiednitz O./L. converted, in which Heye now acted as chairman of the supervisory board. Heye was hit hard by the consequences of World War I. First the Steinkrug glassworks had to be given up in 1928 and after the global economic crisis the glass factory in Nienburg was closed in 1931 and the Wendthöhe glassworks near Stadthagen in 1932. In Hamburg Heye was a member of the supervisory boards of Th. Hartmann & Schultze AG, Blohm + Voss Komm. Ges. And Hamburger Hochbahn -AG as well as the Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn- Gesellschaft, based in Lübeck .

Honorary positions

In 1900 Heye became a member of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and was involved in its committees until 1933. First he was a member of the Industry Commission, where from 1903 to 1907 he was deputy chairman and from 1907 chairman. From 1911 to 1914 he was Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce, and in 1917 and 1918 he was the first industrialist to lead the presidency. From 1916 to 1930 Heye was chairman of the section for commercial and social issues. He was a member of the deputation for trade, shipping and trade in 1908 and 1909 as well as in 1917 and 1918. He represented the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce in the German Trading Day from 1916 to 1918. He was a member of the Board of Directors, the Exchange Commission, the Railway Section, the Altona and Hanover District Railway Councils and the State Railway Councils of Hamburg and Prussia (1923 to 1927). Heye was also a member of the Elbe Waterways Advisory Board of the Reich Waterways Administration and a member of the Hamburg commission for the appraisal of German sewer projects. Heye was a member of the administration of the trade school system from 1909 to 1914 and a member of the advisory board of the Museum of Art and Industry from 1922 . In the German Reich Heye was active as chairman of the Association of German Bottle Manufacturers and a member of the main committee of the Association of the German Glass Industry.

Personal

On May 6, 1898, Friedrich CH Heye married Elisabeth Friederike Thomsen (1876–1961), a school friend of his younger sister Gustava. The couple's meeting and the wedding are described in great detail in Erich Rüppel: "A Hamburg merchant family in the 19th century - life in the Biedermeier and the revolutionary reorganization of Germany", Book on Demand 2017. He had 5 children with her: Margarete (1898–1993 ); Friedrich Theodor Hermann (1902–1940); Elisabeth (1905-1994); Irmgard (1907–1994) and Friedrich (1912–1994), who continued the company after the death of his father in 1937 and the early death of his older brother in 1940.

Honors

• On the occasion of his 25-year membership in the chamber, he was awarded the Golden Medal of the Chamber of Commerce on December 31, 1925.
• In 1925 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Nienburg.

Web links

• CV in hamburgerpersoenitäten.de
• Family tree at genealogy.net
• Family tree at Gedbas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wilhelm Gerntrup: '' The fight applies to King Heye ''. In: Schaumburger Nachrichten v. July 30, 2011, p. 40
2. ↑ Sigmar Geiselberger: '' Timeline for the Heye'schen Glasfabriken 1799 - 1999 '', In: Pressglas-Korrespondenz, No. 01/2001, pp. 61–71 (63)
3. ^ Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH: '' Annahütte / Poley '', Changes and Perspectives, Issue 22; P. 6

literature

• Erich Rüppel: A Hamburg merchant family in the 19th century - life in the Biedermeier and the revolutionary reorganization of Germany. Book on Demand 2017.