Heinrich Straub
Heinrich Straub (* 1838 in Geislingen an der Steige ; † 1876 in Heluan near Cairo ; full name: Caspar Heinrich Straub) was a metal goods manufacturer in Württemberg.
Life
Heinrich Straub was born as the son of the Geislingen metal goods manufacturer Daniel Straub . To study engineering , he went to the Polytechnic School in Stuttgart , where he became a member of the Corps Stauffia . After graduating, he joined his father's company, the Straub & Schweizer Geislingen metal goods factory . After his father took over the company shares from Friedrich Schweizer in 1866, he became a partner in the company in 1870, which was now called Straub & Sohn Metallwarenfabrik . Heinrich Straub was responsible on the one hand for technical management and on the other hand for international sales with its own branches.
Heinrich Straub had ambitious expansion plans. For this purpose, he and his father acquired the Hohenstein mine in 1875 . When Heinrich Straub caught a bad cold while assembling a mill wheel in 1876 and also contracted pulmonary tuberculosis, he went to Egypt for a cure, but could no longer recover and died in Heluan near Cairo. As a result, the company lacked entrepreneurial leadership, especially since his father was devastated and couldn't get over the death of his only son. However, the company was heavily in debt due to the acquisitions and expansions. Four years later, at the insistence of the banks, in 1880 the merger with the silver plating company A. Ritter & Co. , the birth of the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG , WMF , which still exists today as a globally operating group.
As a sign of his mourning for his son Heinrich, Daniel Straub built a mausoleum, the Straub'sche grave chapel, in which the coffins of Heinrich, Daniel and Catharina Straub are laid out.
Web links
- WMF book, chapter 1 - Daniel Straub - An entrepreneur changes his world (1853)
- WMF book, chapter 2 (with picture by Heinrich Straub)
- WMF book, chapter 3
Individual evidence
- ^ Anne Nieberding: Corporate culture in the Empire - JM Voith and the paint factories vorm. Fried. Bayer & Co. , Munich 2003, p. 56, ISBN 3-406-49630-X Google Books
- ^ WMF Company History
- ↑ Straub's grave chapel in Geislingen-Rorgensteig
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Straub, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Straub, Caspar Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German metal goods manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geislingen an der Steige , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1876 |
| Place of death | Heluan near Cairo, Egypt |