Heinrich-Carl Hedrich
Heinrich-Carl Hedrich (born November 1, 1816 in Gispersleben near Erfurt, † March 8, 1900 in Gries near Bozen) was a German mill and mechanical engineer and entrepreneur , he owned mills and factories in Glauchau , Ottensen-Neumühlen and Budapest .
Life
Born in 1816 as the son of the mill owner Heinrich August Hedrich, Heinrich Carl Hedrich acquired the castle mill in Glauchau from the counts' lordship in 1839 and moved there in 1840. As early as the winter of 1840/1841, the weir in the Zwickauer Mulde was destroyed by ice drift - as it had often happened before - so that Hedrich and all the other residents of the Mühlgraben could not operate their mills due to a lack of water. Hedrich realized that the previous weir was poorly founded and that a single weir could not withstand the water masses of the hollow with ice drift. According to his conception, four weirs were built with a smaller gradient and a lower height, the foundations of which reached down to the Rotliegend , a rock layer typical of this region. These weirs still exist today and are called Hedrich weirs .
Heinrich Carl Hedrich was an unpaid city councilor and chairman of urban construction in Glauchau from 1851 to 1858. During this time he developed plans for the first modern water pipeline in Glauchau. It is considered one of the first in Germany and was a model for the water pipes in cities such as Leipzig and Dresden.
In 1888 Hedrich had a power station built in the defense garden, which generated the first electricity in Glauchau. In addition to his own needs for the gear production of the company C. Hedrich, this also covered the need for the newly built cinema on Plan (later ELG Holz ) and for the first apartments. The first municipal power plant was not built until eight years later (1896) in the new Glauchau slaughterhouse.
family
Heinrich Carl Hedrich was married to Agnes Florentine geb. Käferstein (1826–1900), daughter of Gustav Franz Käferstein from Penig . The couple had four daughters and two sons. The older son Hugo Hedrich took over the management of the mill in Budapest ( Königsmühle Hedrich & Strauss , after 1889 in Hamburg), the younger Eugen Hedrich the Hedrichsmühle in (Hamburg-) Ottensen-Neumühlen (later C. Hedrich AG, steam mills and food factory ). The daughter Alma Agnes Constance (1848-1935) married the Norwegian civil engineer Halvor Emil Heyerdahl (1840-1917), a great-uncle of the ethnographer and explorer Thor Heyerdahl .
Hedrich died on March 8, 1900, on a vacation trip to Gries near Bozen. He and his wife were buried in the mausoleum at the Glauchau cemetery.
Awards and honors
In honor of the count's lordship, Carl Hedrich donated the cascade column on the island in Gründelteich in 1884, which after thorough restoration was also dedicated to the memory of Heinrich Carl Hedrich on the occasion of the re-inauguration on October 4, 2008.
In his honor, his children erected a monument with his portrait bust in the military garden in 1902, which was rebuilt in 2008 by his great-great-grandson on the Gründelteichinsel next to the cascade column.
literature
- Ernst Eckardt: Chronicle of Glauchau. 1882.
- Hans Germann: The history of the musical wreath in Glauchau. 1935.
swell
- Hedrich family archive, Hamburg
Web links
- Honoring Hedrich during the renovation of the Glauchauer Park
- The fire at Hedrich's mill in Neumühlen
- Image of the monument by Hedrich
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hedrich, Heinrich-Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hedrich, Heinrich Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mill and machine builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gispersleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1900 |
| Place of death | Gries near Bozen |