Heinrich Pagels

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Heinrich Pagels, relief from the family grave
Pagels family grave
Commercial building Breite Strasse 91–93 (1906)
Family grave: detail

Joachim Heinrich Friedrich Pagels (born October 26, 1836 in Niederbüssau ; † March 12, 1912 Lübeck ) was senior director of the Heinr company . Pagels

Life

Heinrich Pagels came from an old Lower Saxon farming family who had lived in Niederbüssau since the 18th century .

After his confirmation he moved to Lübeck to do a five-year apprenticeship at the Hintz am Koberg store .

One of Ludwig Ewers ' protagonists from his novel Die Großvaterstadt , published in 1926, did his five-year apprenticeship at the Bade am Koberg store . The Hintz store served as a template.

After completing his apprenticeship, Heinrich stayed in the business as a clerk for four years before taking up a position in Consul Pfeiffer's shop on Mühlenstrasse .

18 months later he went into business for himself and founded the company Behrens & Pagels with a partner in 1862 . This went under the Heinr company four years later . Pagels on him alone.

The company owed its rapid flourishing to the connection of Lübeck to the Zollverein and even more to the newly established German Empire .

The founding years could not be dangerous for the well-founded company and it developed not only into one of the largest of its kind in the north, but in all of Germany.

The rooms of the main building in the Breite Straße , the previous inn King of England , soon proved to be too small.

One of his sons, the sculptor Hermann Joachim Pagels , created a relief of the patriarch in 1908 . It adorns the family grave that he also created.

On March 15, 1912, he was buried in the general church near the forest, which, as Mr. Hennings emphasizes in Pagels' obituary of the Lübeckische Blätter , he loved so much .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lübeckische Blätter ; Vol. 54, March 24, 1912, p. 190, article: Heinrich Pagels †
personal data
SURNAME Pagels, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pagels, Joachim Heinrich Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, entrepreneur and patron
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederbüssau
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1912
Place of death Lübeck