Fritz Hönig

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Fritz Hönig
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Fritz Hönig (also Fritz Hoenig and Fritz Hœnig; born September 23, 1833 in Cologne ; † November 2 or 3, 1903 there ) was a Cologne entrepreneur.

Live and act

Hönig lived and worked in Cologne, but had numerous connections throughout the German Empire , as well as France and Belgium .

He was the owner of a factory for fire fighting equipment as well as an inventor and designer. He also dealt with language and dialect research, as an author he wrote numerous writings in Cologne dialect. He was also involved in the Cologne Carnival and was, among other things, President of the Cologne Carnival Society Die Große from 1923 .

Hönig was born in the grave of his first wife Jenny. van den Valentyn is buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 49).

Grave of the Hönig family in the Melaten cemetery

His friends and admirers posthumously published a new edition of Hönig's “Dictionary of Cologne Dialect”. It contains an obituary of the then rector of the Waisenhausgasse / Martinsfeld school in Cologne and the Cologne dialect writer Heinrich Hack (1856–1936).

Honors

On September 24, 1885, the Cologne city council appointed him, among other honors, chief of honor of the volunteer fire brigade , to which he had been a member since 1852.

A street in Cologne-Lindenthal was named in his honor. It is located in the vicinity of the St. Elisabeth Hospital in the south-western part of today's Lindenthal district .

Publications

  1. Da Boore Knääch . Carnival speech. Promoted to print by a carnival friend (published anonymously) at the request of many. J. Kreuter Publishing House, Cologne 1872.
  2. The Caventschaft (guarantee.) . Carnival speech by Ms. H. Promoted to print by a carnival friend at various requests. J. Kreuter Publishing House, Cologne 1872.
  3. Troubador . Incredibly tragic, dramatic and musical knight, grief and corpse play in three acts full of joy and tears full of hatred and love, vengeance, remorse, theft, murder and self-confidence. Music by various composers. Publishing house of Alb. Ahn, Cologne 1872.
  4. A butcher sh krätzche . Lecture by a Carnival friend (published anonymously). J. Kreuter Publishing House, Cologne 1872.
  5. Neres un Kobes or De Kaventschaff . (Published anonymously). J. Kreuter Publishing House, Cologne 1872.
  6. The wedding ring . Parody of Schiller's “Song of the Bell” Freely based on given motifs. Friedr. Heyns Verlag, Cologne 1874.
  7. "Screeching" . Humoresques. tape 1,2 (1875, 1877) . Verlag von Friedr. Heyn, Cologne.
  8. The Boorejung em Thiater . The apprentice . Humoresques. Friedr. Heyns Verlag, Cologne (1876).
  9. Et Bütze . (after Saphir.) De Kaventschaff . (after Schiller.) . Humoresques. Friedr. Heyns Verlag, Cologne 1876.
  10. The singer's Flooch . Lotterboove prank . (after Langbein.) Humoresques. Friedr. Heyns Verlag, Cologne (1876).
  11. Dictionary of the Cologne dialect . In addition to an introduction by Ms. Wilh. Wahlenberg. Verlag von Friedr. Heyn, Cologne 1877.
  12. Rath and Tath in fire fighting and rescue . 2nd edition. Cologne 1879.
  13. The robbery of the Sabinerinne. Et Schöffeamp . De Hermannsschlach . Friedr. Heyns Verlag, Cologne 1872.
  14. Cologne puppet theater . Volume 1, introduction. Volume 2-4, Kölsche Faxen and Schwänke. Hassel, Cologne 1884 (5 issues).
  15. Cologne faxes and Schwänke . Dedicated to all friends of Rhenish humor, also set up for puppet, children's and amateur theater. Langensche Buchdruckerei, Cologne 1884 (published anonymously; Issue 1,2).
  16. For everyone weeding . Humoresques in the Cologne dialect. 3rd edition. Verlag der Langenfeldschen Buchhandlung, Cologne 1887.
  17. Proverbs and sayings in the Cologne dialect . Collected and published. Along with supplements 1 and 2, published by Paul Neubner, Cologne 1895.
  18. Cologne puppet theater . Self-published by Fritz Hönig, Cologne 1897 (eight issues; 1-6. [2nd edition] 7,8).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Hönig: Dictionary of the Cologne dialect . published by his friends and admirers. JP Bachem, Cologne 1905.
  2. ↑ DNB 116928050
  3. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history. Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 190 .
  4. ^ Fritz Hönig: Dictionary of the Cologne dialect . published by his friends and admirers. JP Bachem, Cologne 1905, p. V-VIII .
  5. ^ Fritz Hönig: Dictionary of the Cologne dialect . published by his friends and admirers. JP Bachem, Cologne 1905, p. VII .
  6. ↑ Fritz-Hönig-Str. abracus photoworld, accessed April 4, 2013 .
  7. ^ Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne street names lexicon . The streets, alleys, paths, squares, bridges and parks in Cologne briefly explained. 2nd expanded edition. Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2006, p. 167 .
  8. ^ Fritz Hönig: Dictionary of the Cologne dialect . published by his friends and admirers. JP Bachem, Cologne 1905, p. 311 and 312 .

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personal data
SURNAME Honey, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cologne manufacturer, inventor, dialect researcher, author, carnivalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1903 or November 3, 1903
Place of death Cologne