Heinrich Ebhardt

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Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Ebhardt ( baptized January 4, 1808 in Hanover ; † April 14, 1899 there ) was a German printer and manufacturer. The founder of the business book factory JC König & Ebhardt , a global company, is considered to be the "inventor" of the business book in its long-established form ".

Life

Born as the son of a cloth merchant in the turmoil of the so-called " French era " in the Kingdom of Westphalia , Heinrich Ebhardt completed a commercial apprenticeship in Hanover and worked briefly in Hildesheim at the beginning of the Kingdom of Hanover .

Back in Hanover, Ebhardt soon worked for the chicory factory founded in 1822 by his later stepfather Johann Christoph König (1783–1867), which he had set up at “ Aegidienthor , Kirchwende 2”. 1832 or 1833 Ebhardt was initially co-owner of his father's company stepmother had become, still driving at the time as a "clerk" with the horse-drawn carriage across the country. In the early days of industrialization , he founded a printing company in 1845 , initially only to cover the company's own needs for labels and forms for the company now known as JC König & Ebhardt . In 1847, Heinrich Ebhardt sole owner of the company, acquired in 1850, the civil rights of Hanover and got in the same year - under the additional name of "factory liniierter action books " - in the worldwide export and was for decades over again - some high prize-winning - Exhibitors at trade shows and various Commercial and industrial exhibitions.

Renovated and teilumgebaute former books of factory JC King & Ebhardt (now University of Hannover ) on the Schlosswender street corner king Platz

Soon the former auxiliary business for the chicory company had developed into the world's first accounting book factory, which is why Heinrich Ebhardt outsourced mustard and chicory production in 1867 and transferred this line of business to his son Hermann Ebhardt (born September 14, 1835 in Hanover; † July 6, 1887 in Bad Nenndorf ). In the early days of the German Empire - Heinrich Ebhardt had become the father-in-law of the paper mill owner , paper wholesaler and later account book manufacturer Wilhelm Oldemeyer - from 1874 onwards, Ebhardt had the architect Ludwig Frühling on Schlosswender Strasse for his larger factory buildings in the (today's) district of Nordstadt in quick succession Set up printing companies.

The Gutenbergbrunnen, later also called Ebhardt-Brunnen , on Friedrichswall in front of Ebhardtstrasse ;
Postcard number 504 by Karl F. Wunder ,
collotype , around 1898

After Heinrich Ebhardt was appointed Kommerzienrat in 1881 , he donated the Gutenberg Fountain , erected in 1890 on Friedrichswall , to the city of Hanover - “[...] probably in memory of the 450th anniversary of the invention of the art of printing, in honor of Gutenberg ” Work by City Planning Inspector Paul Rowald and the sculptor Carl Dopmeyer . A photograph - today owned by the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer - dates from around this time and shows a lively picture of the fountain, on which the fire wall of the Wunder house, labeled “ Atelier Karl F. Wunder ”, can be seen in the background.

The tomb Ebhards on the city cemetery Engesohde with that of Carl Dopmeyer designed Portrait - Bust

Heinrich Ebhardt was buried in the Engesohde city cemetery . In Department 9B, grave number 70–75, there is also a portrait designed by the sculptor Carl Dopmeyer - a bust of the "inventor [s]" of the business book in its long-standing form ".

Ebhardtstrasse

Shortly after the erection of the Gutenberg fountain on Friedrichswall, Ebhardtstrasse , which was laid out in 1891, runs off Marktstrasse and runs towards the fountain . The company's founder and benefactor Heinrich Ebhardt was honored with the naming during his lifetime.

literature

  • Edgar Kalthof (Hrsg.): Niedersächsische Lebensbilder (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Bremen , Vol. 22, 7), Hildesheim; Leipzig: Lax, 1971, pp. 15–31
  • Helmut Zimmermann : The Hanoverian portraits second series. Illustrated by Rainer Osswald , Hanover: Harenberg, 1984, ISBN 3-89042-008-7 . Pp. 72-76
  • Ludwig Hoerner : agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 91, 164; Preview over google books

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, Ludwig Hoerner (see there) names the year "1825" as the founding date of the chicory factory, the others also differ here in connection with the first year numbers from the information in the Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Waldemar R. Röhrbein : EBHARDT, Georg Wilhelm Heinrich. In: 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 , pp. 102f .; online through google books
  2. ↑ a b Silke Beck, Cordula Wächtler (ed.), Uta Müller Glassl, Helmut Zimmermann (text): Stadtfriedhof Engesohde , free brochure, including a historical outline, photos and overview plan, ed. from the Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Langensalzastraße 17, Hanover: November 2007, p. 21; or online as a PDF document
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Napoleonic Wars. 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 , pp. 459f.
  4. ^ A b c Ludwig Hoerner: agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 91, 164
  5. ↑ Heinz Schmidt-Bachem : From paper: a cultural and economic history of the paper processing industry in Germany , Berlin; Boston; Massachusetts: De Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023607-1 , p. 481, etc .; online through google books
  6. ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Schlosswender Strasse 1–4. In: Hanover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 194
  7. ↑ Rainer Ertel , Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Gutenberg-Brunnen (Ebhardt-Brunnen) , in this: Fountain in Hanover: Fountains and fountains in their districts , with a contribution by Ludwig Zerull , supported by the Rut- and Klaus-Bahlsen- Foundation , Hanover: Cartoon-Concept Agentur und Verlags GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-932401-03-4 , p. 29f. (as well as picture credits p. 2)
  8. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Friedrichswall 17. In: HKuKL , p. 114
  9. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Ebhardtstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 66
personal data
SURNAME Ebhardt, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ebhardt, Georg Wilhelm Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH baptized January 4, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1899
Place of death Hanover