Hans Riegel

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johann "Hans" Riegel (born April 3, 1893 in Friesdorf near Bonn , † March 31, 1945 ) was a German entrepreneur and founder of Haribo .

HARIBO plant in Bonn-Kessenich from the southwest (2013)
Career start at Kleutgen & Meier
Grave of Hans Riegel in Bonn's southern cemetery

Life

Hans Riegel was a son of Peter and Agnes Riegel. He made after his schooling at Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn trained as a candy cooker in companies Kleutgen & Meier in Bonn - Friesdorf , where he worked for five years. He then worked in Neuss and Osnabrück .

After the First World War , Hans Riegel was employed as a candy cooker at the Heinen company in Bonn-Kessenich , where he later became a business partner. The company was then called Heinen & Riegel.

In 1920, he set out with his own business independently , leaving on 13 December 1920 as a company Haribo ( Ha ns Ri egel Bo into Bonner nn) Commercial Register Enter. According to the company, he started his company “with a sack of sugar”. Hans Riegel bought a house on Bergstrasse in Kessenich, where he set up and operated the first manufacturing facility on his own. The first equipment of the company is said to have consisted only of the above-mentioned sack of sugar as well as a marble slab, a stool, a brick stove, a copper kettle and a roller.

In 1921 he married Gertrud Vianden, who became the first employee in his company. He invented the dancing bear - a bear figure that was initially a bit slimmer and larger than today's and consisted of the ingredients sugar , gum arabic (later replaced by gelatine ), acidulants and flavors . The daily production was delivered by his wife Gertrud by bike. The later norm bear became world famous as the Haribo gold bear .

Son Hans († 2013) was born in 1923, daughter Anita († 2004) followed in 1924 and son Paul († 2009) in 1926 .

By the Second World War , the number of employees grew to around 400. In 1945 Hans Riegel died at the age of 51 and was buried in Bonn's southern cemetery.

In memory

In October 1956, Hans-Riegel-Strasse was named after him in the Kessenich district of Bonn .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Own presentation of the founding history of Haribo (online)
  2. ↑ Anita Königs, b. Bars. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
  3. ^ Hans-Riegel-Straße in the Bonn street cadastre
personal data
SURNAME Riegel, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riegel, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and founder of Haribo
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Friesdorf near Bonn
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1945