Gustav Henckell

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Gustav Henckell (born June 21, 1859 in Bodenfelde , † January 18, 1942 in Lenzburg ) was a German-Swiss canning company.

Life

Gustav Henckell's parents were the farmer, mayor and merchant Arnold Heinrich Henckell and Bertha Elise Auguste, a daughter of Carl Franz Theodor Piderit (1789–1848). Gustav Henckell's father traded in grain in particular. His younger brother, the poet Karl Henckell , was born in Hanover in 1864. Her subtenant was Friedrich Wilhelm Wedekind, father of the poet Frank Wedekind .

Gustav Henckell attended secondary school in Hanover and did a commercial apprenticeship. He began his career as a traveler for the Munich canning factory from Dr. W. Nägeli , the son of Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli , Walter (* 1851 in Zurich). The factory first experimented with canned glass and was relocated to Mainz-Mombach around 1883 .

In the early autumn of 1885 he met his Hanoverian school friend Gustav Zeiler in an inn in Einsiedeln, who worked as a head gardener in Otto Großmann's tree nursery in Aarau. In 1886 they founded the Henckell, Zeiler & Cie canning factory in a rented sheet metal workshop in Lenzburg . and came out on June 15th with canned peas. At the end of the founding year, Karl Roth joined as a limited partner.

After Zeiler's death in 1889, he changed the factory name to Henckell & Roth and in February 1897 married Zeiler's widow, Emilie Philippine (née Schauwecker). The Henckell couple, whose marriage remained childless, raised their son Gustav, born in 1887 from their marriage to Zeiler. Henckell built his villa at Angelrainstrasse 2 around 1900.

The brand name Hero was created in 1910 . By 1911, the buildings were expanded considerably due to the constant expansion of sales, but the First World War led to a sudden collapse of business. The Second World War, u. a. Because of the sugar shortage, posed a great challenge for the company. In 1915 Henckell acquired the citizenship of Lenzburg. In 1937 the entrepreneur withdrew from his business. He died on January 18, 1942 of the consequences of an accident that he had suffered two days earlier on an icy road. His widow followed him to her death on February 5, 1942.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Andreas Steigmeier: Henckell, Gustav. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Fritz Hüser:  Henckell, Karl Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 519 f. ( Digitized version ). - Article on Gustav Henckell's brother
  3. ^ Franz Karl Theodor Piderit (1789–1848), rector of the grammar school in Hersfeld, archivist in Kassel; at genealogy.net
  4. ^ Opposite brothers - the industrialist and the social revolutionary, in: Regula Schenkel and Edi Goetschel (eds.), Karl Henckell - literary and social revolutionary, Zurich 2017, p. 14, Monsalvat-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-9523855-1- 7 .
  5. ↑ opus.kobv.de (PDF; 8.5 MB)
  6. ↑ Ernst Wunschmann:  Nägeli, Karl Wilhelm von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 573-582.
  7. ^ Andreas Steigmeier: Hero. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  8. ↑ vamus.ch
  9. ↑ heroch.ch ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heroch.ch
  10. ^ Emil Braun: Gustav Henckell 1859-1942. In: Lenzburger Neujahrsblätter 1943, p. 46.
  11. ^ Emil Braun: Gustav Henckell 1859-1942. In: Lenzburger Neujahrsblätter 1943, p. 50.

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personal data
SURNAME Henckell, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss canning company
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Bodenfelde
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1942
Place of death Lenzburg