Fritz Hurtzig
Fritz Hurtzig (actually Johann Georg Friedrich Adolph Hurtzig ) (born July 10, 1825 in Linden (Hanover) ; † May 29, 1897 there ) was an industrialist and business leader.
family
His parents were the businessman Leopold Hurtzig (born August 28, 1796 in Celle; † May 9, 1858 in Linden) and Eleonore (born October 16, 1805 in Linden; † July 31, 1838 there), a daughter of Johann Egestorff . His father ran a timber business that had existed since 1810 and the sugar boiler Egestorff & Hurtzig, founded with his father-in-law in 1823 in Blumenauer Strasse (later Ihmebrückstrasse 9 ). Here, up to 350 quintals of cane sugar was extracted from Cuban sugar cane.
Fritz married Dorothea (1827–1903) in Hildesheim in 1851, a daughter of the pharmacist Brandes in Hildesheim, with whom he had two sons and three daughters.
Act
In 1851 he joined his father's company, took over the management after his father's death and last produced beet sugar until the company closed in 1864.
Between 1850 and 1870 he worked in the trade association with Bernhard Hausmann and was involved in the founding of the Hannoversche Bank in 1858 .
1853–58 he was one of the directors of the Hanoverian cotton spinning and weaving mill . The flax cultivation and linen industry, which was still flourishing in the kingdom at the beginning of the century, had come to a standstill and in 1845 Wilhelm Roscher therefore drew attention to the need to remedy the Difficulties due to insufficient concentration and insufficient division of labor require energetic means. Hutzig became co-founder and head of the first Hanover stock association for flax production , which was dissolved again in 1871.
In 1856 he founded the mining and smelting company Peine together with the Celle banker Carl Hostmann . After it got off to a bad start during the economic crisis, he founded the Ilseder Hütte in 1858 and was managing director until 1860, then a member of the administrative board. From 1861 he was director of the Hanover trade association . From 1862 he was at the Aktien-Zuckerfabrik Neuwerk near Hanover , with factories in Gehrden and Sarstedt, initially provisional director and later until 1878 its director.
In 1864 he founded the Hurtzig & Feldmann mineral water factory with the pharmacist Ernst Louis Albert Feldmann at Blumenauer Strasse 4a , which also produced lemonade and carbon dioxide. They also carried a large selection of the now popular bottle tops and bottle tops. By 1874 they opened 33 drinking halls and in 1890 he became the sole owner. The factory closed in 1911.
He campaigned for the creation of the Chamber of Commerce and was its President from 1867–1874. For a while he was also on the committee of the German Trading Conference. 1871-1882 he was a member of the Linden community assembly and in 1874 elected to the district council of the Linden district.
In 1871 he became chairman of the supervisory board of the Lindener Aktien-Brauerei . Together with his brother-in-law Friedrich Buresch , he became a member of the administrative board of the newly created Georg Egestorff Salzwerke AG in 1872 , then of the board of directors. Until 1875 he was chairman of the supervisory board of the Hanover construction company founded by Ferdinand Wallbrecht in 1872 . He was also a member or chairman of other supervisory boards.
In 1886 he founded the Hannoversche Brotfabrik AG ( Habag ) to supply the poorer population with inexpensive quality bread , which was acquired in 1929 by Franz Harry (1892–1946) for Harry-Brot .
literature
- Albert Lefèvre: Hurtzig, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 78 ( digitized version ).
- Albert Lefèvre: Fritz Hurtzig. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 28 (1974), pp. 121-274
- German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 5, p. 231
- Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 181.
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Hurtzig, (1) Fritz. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 312.
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Lefèvre: Hurtzig, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 78 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Böttcher: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon ; P. 181
- ↑ http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/u/r/William-M-Hurtzig/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0609.html
- ^ Lindener trade and industry from 1646-1837
- ↑ Lindener trade and industry from 1838-1859
- ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter, Volumes 23-25, p. 268
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hurtzig, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hurtzig, Johann Georg Friedrich Adolph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Industrial and business leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linden (Hanover) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1897 |
| Place of death | Linden (Hanover) |