Friedrich Helfferich

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Friedrich G. Helfferich (born April 13, 1845 in Neustadt an der Haardt ; † May 16, 1917 ibid) was a German textile manufacturer in what is now Neustadt an der Weinstrasse.

Life

Friedrich Helfferich was the son of the Catholic merchant Carl Helfferich (* 1817 in Dülken ; † 18 May 1888) and the Protestant pharmacist's daughter Eleonore Schoppmann (* 31 July 1812 in Rhodt unter Rietburg ; † 9 April 1855 in Neustadt an der Haardt . Friedrichs Parents were evangelically married in Neustadt an der Haardt on September 11, 1844. In the town at the exit of the Speyerbach Valley, Friedrich attended the local Latin school's secondary school after primary school .

Friedrich Helfferich married Auguste (Juliana Luisa Augusta) Knoeckel (born September 29, 1847 also in Neustadt; † April 24, 1924 in the Bellinzona railway accident ) in 1871 , daughter of the Neustadt paper manufacturer Johann Philipp Jakob Knöckel and Emilie Zepelius. The family had seven children. In 1900 Helfferich was given the title “kgl. bayer. Commerzienra “t awarded. Friedrich Helfferich died at the age of 73.

Hosiery and Trikotagenfabrik F. Helfferich

Location of the F. Helfferich textile factory in 1925
Trademark of the Mechanical Trikotwarenfabrik Friedrich Helfferich Neustadt around 1900
Helfferich textile factory coat of arms 1929
Laundry mark Helfferich since 1952

In 1871, Friedrich Helfferich and his partner Jacob Engelmann bought a mechanical weaving mill founded by Ludwig Ziegler in the city center of Neustadt in 1852, which Helfferich took over completely in 1879 and expanded several times. At the turn of the century, the new Helfferich knitwear and tricot factory with a steam pump, a steam boiler and a steam engine from G. Kuhn, Stuttgart-Berg, was set up in Winzingen (Neustadt) with the conversion and expansion of the former Bischofsmühle (Riehl'sche Mühle) In 1903 a Francis turbine from JM Voith, Heidenheim was added.

Son August and son Philipp joined the company in 1894. Philipp was responsible for the organization of sales and dispatch from 1907, August after the death of Friedrich Helfferich in 1917 for the technical management of the factory. The textile factory had nearly 700 employees to handle wedding orders. Shortly before the First World War, the factory was expanded further. After the war she switched to artificial silk. In 1924 the company was converted into a stock corporation and expanded further ten years later. After the Second World War, the company switched to fully synthetic fibers. The subsidiary Pfälzisches Trikothaus G. m. Was set up to sell knitwear and similar products. b. H., Neustadt (Weinstrasse), which was dissolved in 1998.

Rolf Helfferich (* 1905), a grandson of Friedrich Helfferich and son of Philipp Helfferich, joined the company in 1929 and managed the company until the joint stock company was dissolved and sold to G. J. Schober in 1968. Another grandson of Friedrich Helfferich and August Helferich's son, Karl-August Helfferich, probably joined the company in the 1950s. G. J. Schober GmbH, founded in Stuttgart in 1856, gave up its Stuttgart location in 1974 and relocated administration and production entirely to Neustadt, but stopped production in the 1980s. In 1992 the former textile factory was blown up.

progeny

Children:

  • Karl Helfferich (1872–1924), national economist, banker and nationalist politician ( DNVP )
  • Philipp Helfferich (1874–1955), 1904 co-owner and director of the F. Helfferich factory, city councilor and chairman of the DDP Pfalz, Kommerzienrat, 1934 head of the specialist group, 1939 head of the distribution center for warp-knitting in Berlin
  • Emilie Helfferich, (1875-1958)
  • August Helfferich (1876–1958), 1906 co-owner of the F. Helfferich factory, city councilor, DDP Neustadt an der Haardt, then NSDAP , councilor of commerce, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
  • Emil Helfferich (1878–1972), Southeast Asia merchant, State Councilor, NSDAP, Chairman of HAPAG ; Federal Cross of Merit
  • Theodor Helfferich (1880–1931), shop steward for the Imperial Navy in the Dutch East Indies.
  • Wilhelm Helfferich (1882–1958), graduate engineer, director of Joseph-Vögele-AG ,

Grandson:

  • Friedrich Georg Helfferich (1922–2005), son of Karl Helfferich, doctor of natural science and professor in the USA

literature

  • Karl Erich Born:  Helfferich, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , pp. 470-472 ( digitized version ).
  • John G. Williamson: Karl Helfferich, 1872–1924: Economist, Financier, Politician
  • 100 years of the F. Helfferich tricot factory, Neustadt / Weinstrasse 1952

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d family tree online at https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/3WK2-7Z3
  2. ↑ a b c Genealogy Horst Klein at http://gw.geneanet.org/horstklein?lang=de;pz=horst;nz=klein;ocz=0;p=emilie;n=helfferich )
  3. ↑ Pfälzer Zeitung, vol. 1855, No. 86 of April 11, 1855 at http://bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de/
  4. ↑ Annual reports 1854–1858 about the Latin School and the associated Realkursus zu Neustadt an der Haardt at http://bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de/
  5. ↑ http://www.eliechtensteinensia.li/LIVB/1924/19240430/Seite_3.pdf
  6. ↑ a b c d 100 years of the F. Helfferich tricot factory
  7. ↑ a b http://www.albert-gieseler.de/dampf_de/firmen3/firmadet30379.shtml
  8. ↑ Register portal of the federal states https://www.handelsregister.de/
  9. ↑ https://wabw.uni-hohenheim.de/82388
  10. ↑ 50 years of the Technical Aid Organization Neustadt ( Memento from May 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Loyalty in the choir . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1965, pp. 240-242 ( Online - Oct. 13, 1965 ).
personal data
SURNAME Helfferich, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helfferich, Friedrich Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile manufacturer in Neustadt an der Haardt
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Haardt
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1917
Place of death Neustadt an der Haardt