Fritz Funke (industrialist)
Friedrich Funke , mostly called Fritz Funke , (born April 4, 1821 in Essen , † April 23, 1884 ibid) was a German building contractor , industrialist and city councilor in Essen.
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Funke was the son of a master mason. After his first wife died in 1852, he married again. With his second wife, a born Rellensmann (1830-1893) from Dortmund, Funke had the four sons Friedrich , Carl , Wilhelm and Otto.
Funke learned the bricklaying trade from the Essen construction company Franz Schmidt. At a young age spark a stakeholder in this construction business, which since then until 1853 was Schmidt & Funke was renamed . After the stake was dissolved, Funke founded the company Funke & Schürenberg together with Johann Wilhelm Schürenberg in 1859 , which, thanks to a rapid upturn around six years after it was founded, had around 2,000 employees and was one of the largest construction companies in the up-and-coming Ruhr area .
The Funke & Schürenberg company built some industrial plants and collieries and was involved in the construction of the Villa Hügel with Alfred Krupp as the client, the Pauluskirche and the Actien beer brewery in Essen an der Ruhr , later known as the Stern Brewery . In addition to the Krupp family, Funke also knew the industrialist Friedrich Grillo , with whom he founded the Grillo, Funke & Co. union in 1864 . In emerging Ruhr mining Funke took advantage of the opportunities to participate in several coal mine start-ups, including in 1871, the mine Unser Fritz , the bill Richradt that mine Pörtingsiepen and more. In 1872, together with Heinrich Grimberg , Carl Ernst Korte, Johann Wilhelm Schürenberg and Carl and Friedrich Wilhelm Waldthausen, the Lorraine trade union was founded in Gerthe near Bochum . In 1880, Funke was the head of the mining union at the Heisinger Tiefbau colliery , which was merged into the Carl Funke colliery , named after his son Carl Funke , who successfully carried on his father's industrial legacy. Fritz Funke was a co-founder of the Schalke Mine and Hüttenverein as well as a member of several board members and supervisory boards. He is also one of the key founding members of the Actien beer brewery in Essen an der Ruhr , which later became the Stern brewery in Essen, which his son Carl and grandson Fritz continued to run.
Funke was also politically active as a city councilor for the city of Essen from 1856 until his death. Funke was a member of the presbytery in the Evangelical Church .
Fritz Funke was buried on April 27, 1884 in the family crypt of the Funke and Schürenberg families in the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor . Lord Mayor Gustav Hache wrote an obituary. More than 4000 people attended the funeral procession from Burgplatz to Kettwiger Tor. After the cemetery was closed in 1955, the common crypt was moved to the Ostfriedhof Essen .
literature
- Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
Web links
- Funke, Fritz at www.historischesportal.essen.de, accessed on September 16, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Lorraine colliery ; Retrieved April 26, 2017
- ↑ Friedrich Funke, Trades and City Councilor buried. In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung of April 28, 1884
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Funke, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Funke, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German building contractor, industrialist and city councilor in Essen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1884 |
| Place of death | eat |