Friedrich Ernst Guhr

Friedrich Ernst Guhr (* before 1887; † 1916 ) was a German entrepreneur and private investor as well as a commissioner .

Career

Guhr was a successful employee in the brewing industry from Pirna . From 1887 to 1900 he worked as an authorized signatory and manager for the industrialist Carl Adolf Riebeck in the Leipzig brewery in Reudnitz . This brewery was previously one of the largest breweries in Central Germany and is now part of the Radeberger Group (formerly Binding Group) of the Oetker Group. From 1900 Guhr was appointed to the supervisory board. He made for himself, his 16 years younger wife and his two daughters an imposing Villa Park in Engelsdorf building, now a suburb of Leipzig .

Stroke of luck

Through property speculation, Guhr succeeded in acquiring extensive land in advance in order to be able to offer it to the royal Saxon State Railways a little later for the relocation of railway locomotives, wagon workshops and shunting operations. The area was sought through the planned new construction of their main train station in Leipzig. Friedrich Ernst Guhr became for a relatively short time the richest and most important citizen of the town of Engelsdorf and a respected patron .

End of life

By the First World War, he lost all his money and was in December 1914 in a mental hospital admitted, where he died 1916th The city took over the real estate, the Protestant church bought his villa as a parsonage for the newly elected pastor. In 2002 the villa was sold to the family of a neurologist who had it extensively renovated. It has been privately owned again since then.

Honors

For his services to the development of his community Engelsdorf he was awarded the title of Commissioner , and in 1912 the Order of Albrecht from the last Saxon King Friedrich August III. awarded. In modern times, the city of Leipzig has chosen him as the namesake for the renaming of a street in the Engelsdorf district.

Web links

• Villa Guhr
• Leipzig-Engelsdorf including old photographs of Engelsdorf