Heinrich Christian Horn

Heinrich Christian Horn (born October 24, 1837 in Kiel , † June 7, 1899 in Schleswig ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

family

Heinrich Christian Horn was the son of a brewer and grain dealer from Kiel.

He was married and had four children:

• Franz Horn;
• Henry Horn;
• Minna Horn;
• Marie Horn.

Career

Plessenhof

Heinrich Christian Horn followed his sister to Schleswig in 1860, who was married to the Schleswig beer brewer Christian Blöcker and became a business partner of his brother-in-law, who had acquired a brewery from the hotel owner Doris Esselbach .

In 1864 he set up his own company, HC Horn, with a match manufacturer and, after a few years, expanded his field of activity, which soon also included the sale of coal and cokes, charcoal and refractory bricks in bulk and in detail . The rapidly expanding distribution of coal imported from England led to intensive contact on his part with cargo shipping .

Heinrich Christian Horn, who had been the Swedish-Norwegian consul since 1871 , took over the Schlei shipping with the Horn Line in 1879 with three small ships that carried goods and passengers on the Schlei .

He took the decisive step towards becoming a major shipping company on September 27, 1882, when he invited a meeting to set up a freight steamship shipping company . The assembly decided unanimously to build a large ship that would not only operate in the Baltic Sea, but also in the North Sea and would also visit the freight market .

The first ship of the new shipping company on August 21, 1883 ran into Vegesack the town of Schleswig from the stack. The ship was 51 m long and measured with 535 gross register tons. It also drove to Libau and from there transported Russian grain to the North Sea ports and from 1887 coal from Leith from the Firth of Forth to Schleswig; This is how Horn founded its line operation, which expanded rapidly .

The Schleswiger Gasanstalt , which he had acquired and renovated as a factory in 1892 , also belonged to his company empire .

When he died, the shipping company had nine ships. His sons Henry and Franz took over the shipping company and continued it. Franz Horn later left the company and under the direction of Henry Horn the fleet grew into one of the most important in Germany. In 1910, 38 Horn steamers with a total of 77,500 gross register tons were in use worldwide; The company was directed from its headquarters in the so-called Plessenhof in Schleswig.

literature

• Heinrich Christian Horn . In: Bernd Philipsen: Schleswiger heads . Husum 2013. ISBN 978-3-89876-671-5 . P. 131 f.
• Gert U. Detlefsen, Friedrich-Wilhelm Kunze: Horn line. The chronicle of a traditional shipping company . DF-Verlag, Bad Segeberg 1990.
• 100 years of the Horn Line 1882–1982 . Hamburg 1982.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Briquettes - egg shape - coke | The virtual class reunion. Retrieved on August 19, 2020 (German).