Heinrich Salomon Hoffmann

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Heinrich Salomon Hoffmann (born  May 5, 1794 in Fürth ; †  May 8, 1852 in Salzuflen ) was a German chemist and entrepreneur . He founded Hoffmann's starch factories , which developed into a global group within a few years.

history

After stays in Nuremberg and Braunschweig , Hoffmann went to Magdeburg as a druggist in 1824 and founded the Hoffmann & Haase company , which ran into financial difficulties in 1840. Hoffmann then went to Minden and later to Neusalzwerk in Amt Rehme , where he took over the management of a chemical factory that produced bath salts from the mother liquor of a salt works.

After the Salzufler city councilor Brüggemann had pointed out the favorable conditions for the establishment of a factory in 1849, Hoffmann applied for himself and his wife Friederike Hoffmann nee. Peltz (1806–1882) the Salzufler citizenship . On the Kuhkamp in front of the Ostertor he bought a good five bushels of seed (around 8,500 m²) in size and began building a potato starch factory in January 1850 .

He opened the business on September 29, 1850 with a worker, Heinrich Bröker (1850–1899 in the company), an eight hp steam engine and a Göpelpferd .

Hoffmann himself only moved to Salzuflen with his wife in October 1850.

After hiring seven more workers, switching to wheat starch and moving into a small house on the factory premises, Hoffmann died in the spring of 1852.

He and his wife Friederike had nine children. Her eldest son, Leberecht Fürchtegott (1827–1895), helped the newly founded company with economic advice and financial resources. Eduard (1832–1894) joined the company as early as 1850 and took over management of the company after his father's death.

literature

  • Gustav Delpy: Festschrift for the fiftieth anniversary of Hoffmann's starch factories AG Salzuflen on September 29, 1900 . Salzuflen 1900.
  • Franz Meyer, Stefan Wiesekopsieker: Company archive from Hoffmann's starch factories on permanent loan in the Bad Salzufler city archive . In: Archive maintenance in Westphalia and Lippe . Issue 39, April 1994.
  • Otto Sartorius: 100 years of Hoffmann's starch factories, Bad Salzuflen. A memorial book . Bielefeld 1950.
  • Richard Tiemann: 80 years of Hoffmann's starch factories, 60 years of Hoffmann's rice starch brand cat. A review and outlook . 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Meyer (Ed.): Bad Salzuflen Epochs of City History . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89534-606-4 . , Pages 178 and 232.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Heinrich Salomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1852
Place of death Salzuflen