Heinrich Thiel (industrialist)

Heinrich Thiel

Heinrich Ludwig Thiel (born July 8, 1855 in Hamburg , † October 5, 1925 in Lübeck ) was a German merchant , manufacturer and member of the Lübeck citizenship in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic .

Life

origin

Heinrich was the son of a Hamburg merchant family. His father, the businessman and factory owner Wilhelm Carl Ludwig Thiel, came from Lübeck and worked in a comparable factory in Pinneberg . Along with Henry's grandfather took him financially to the bone mill of the merchant Heinrich Christian Julius Koch in Trems .

His father, who had the technical knowledge to manage a company , and Koch founded the “Tremser Eisenwerk” in the buildings of the traditional metal goods factory. From the management of the plant in the Lübeck address books as early as 1870 as the company "Tremser Eisenwerk Carl Thiel & Co." zu Trems, conclusions can be drawn about the financial weighting within the company.

At the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873, the company was awarded the first progress medal with its products. In the following year the plant, now known as “Carl Thiel & Co.”, received the silver medal for its dairy tools at the agricultural exhibition in Bremen . When the Tremser factory was awarded the gold medal at the dairy exhibition in Amsterdam in 1884, the factory had long enjoyed a worldwide reputation .

When Carl died in Schwartau on March 22nd, 1892 , he had brought the plant to its prime .

career

Heinrich received his school education first at the Hamburg grammar school and later in Pinneberg from private tutors . After shooting , he studied construction and metallurgy in Berlin and Braunschweig . When he had completed his year of service and gained practical experience in various larger plants, in 1879 he became a partner in the factory company "Tremser Eisenwerk Carl Thiel & Co."

The customer base extended to Lübeck, Hamburg, Mecklenburg and Holstein . But deliveries could also be made to the rest of Germany and abroad . The plant employed permanent sales representatives in cities such as Hamburg, Copenhagen , Amsterdam, Paris , Madrid , Seville , Barcelona , Odessa , Texas , Sydney and even one in India . The ownership structure of the Tremser Eisenwerk should change again in 1912. After Reuter, a Saarland manufacturer, lost his enamelling factory in Königsbrück due to a fire , he bought the traditional company in order to temporarily take over the Saarland production. When the export at the beginning of the First World War fell away, Lübeck first Emailliefabrik should be insignificance sink.

Apartment until 1917

Former siding

On October 1, 1887, his father and Rudolf officially founded the later stamping and enamelling plant on Schwartauer Allee under the company "Carl Thiel & Söhne" on a plot of 20,000 m² acquired by the merchants . When Heinrich returned to Lübeck in 1888, he took over its commercial management.

In 1922 the company had grown to an area of ​​50,000 m², of which 30,000 m² was covered. The company premises were located close to the port and had their own siding .

Thiel's product range initially comprised tin-plated and enameled sheet metal dishes and dairy equipment and did not differ from that of the ironworks. However, the company was structured in a more modern way and always tried to keep up with the times. One of the most important foundations of the company's success was its technical innovations . Their galvanizing was one of the most modern in the empire.

The move into the new factory building took place in 1888. The family foundation was on 28 October 1899 into a public limited company under the name of "punching and enamelling formerly Carl Thiel & Söhne Aktiengesellschaft" with Rudolf and Heinrich Thiel as Executive converted and her for special trading purposes, the company "R. & H. Thiel ”added.

Together with Heinrich Dräger , the "Deutsche Bierfaß-Automat Gesellschaft" was founded in 1895, when the Dräger company was still mainly producing beer pressure equipment.

The company's product range in 1910 was divided into three main areas:

1. Enamelled house and kitchen utensils
2. Tin-plated dairy utensils, in particular milk cans
3. the production of beer transport and pasting kegs

The world war brought about a fundamental change for the sales relations because of the discontinuation of exports. In accordance with the existing factory facilities, the company was placed in the service of the army administration. After the war it was quickly possible to switch back to pre-war production and to regain most of the former sales areas, including in previously hostile countries. However, important areas such as Russia were not included. It was a community of interest with one of the most powerful sheet metal rolling mills in Germany, the Bismarck Hut in Upper Silesia Bismarckhütte received. The Lübeck plant was put in a position to increase its efficiency to such an extent that it produced beyond its own needs and also supplied other enamelling plants with the necessary raw materials.

One of Lübeck's best industrial captains died with him.

In keeping with its reputation , on October 9, 1925 , the tram provided an extra tram that would leave the market at 10 a.m. for the cremation scheduled for 45 minutes later in the crematorium in the Vorwerk cemetery .

Public life

The founding meeting of the Hanseatic Insurance Company for Disability and Old Age Insurance was held on October 20, 1890. In the Board Goss man and were Sartori as representatives of employers and Thiel, Burmeister, Evers and Brehmer chosen as their replacements.

At the meeting of the merchants' association on July 16, 1897, Pape submitted the request for the establishment of a commission for the preliminary consultation of a reorganization of the merchant's and internal rules . It should consist of six members each from the Chamber of Commerce and six members of the business community. The proposal was accepted and Suckau , Possehl, Thiel, Pape, Stiller and Mangels were elected as members of the commission.

Thiel was chairman and co-founder of the federal government for employers in Lübeck and the surrounding area , he is also a member of the supervisory board of the Lübeck private bank , the machine factory Beth and other larger companies .

The Lübeck advertisements were sponsored by Thiel.

Chamber of Commerce

At the meeting of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce on September 23, 1890, Thiel, Meeths , Schwartzkopf and consultant Brehmer were elected as their representatives. At the meeting on February 15, 1892, Thiel was also proposed in the supplementary election for Schwartzkopf, Wriedt, Schwartz and Stooss , who were regularly leaving the board . The latter, however, has not yet been chosen. The minutes of the supplementary elections for the Chamber of Commerce, which took place on May 30, 1892, were presented on July 11. He received 2 votes from the 71 participating traders . He was elected together with Schorer , Schacht, Stave and Schwartz in the committee for trade legislation and together with Wangenroth, Huebner and Schacht in the committee for factories . In the supplementary election on May 31, 1894, he was elected to the board of directors of the chamber and again to the committee for factories. Thiel had a major influence on the reorganization of the Chamber of Commerce in 1909. In August 1925, at the Chamber of Crafts and Commerce, the chamber appointed its often deputy and direct President after almost 30 years of membership as Honorary President of the Chamber of Commerce.

politics

On December 13, 1890 , the Senate elected Thiele to the appraisal commission to determine the utility value of the land and buildings in the city of Lübeck for the suburb of St. Lorenz instead of Wegrowitz, who was leaving . In place of the departing Fromm, the Senate elected Thiele on December 12, 1896, as a bourgeois deputy to the tax assessment commission for the suburb of St. Lorenz .

On April 8, 1891, the committee rejected the application for the lighting of part of Schwartauer Allee, which had been handed over to the citizens' committee on behalf of Thiel. The company "Carl Thiel & Sons" was still in the dark.

Under the chairmanship of the deputy chairman Gaedecke, Böttges, Brehmer, Heickendorf , Meeths, Mühsam and Thiel were elected on April 15, 1891 for the upcoming state election as shop stewards for the Marien Quartier . For the upcoming citizenship elections, board members of the individual electoral districts were formed. For the III. Constituency was Blunck Chairman and Brecht as his deputy elected. When assessors were selected Behn , Blanck, Brünning, Hartung, Jappe and Thiel and Ewers , Fromm, Genzken , Mielentz, Consul Rehder and standing as their representatives.

Citizenship meeting (1909)

On June 20, 1899, Thiel was elected to the citizenship for the II. Constituency ( Marien-Magdalenen Quartier and the northern part of the suburb of St. Lorenz) . Of 891 eligible voters , 625 (70%) took part in the election. In this election, 333 voters voted for the list of the Father City Association . The manufacturer received 369 votes. He later became a member of the National Liberal Party . He later ran for the NLP , albeit unsuccessfully, for the Reichstag . In the township elections in November 1907 in the Marien-Magdalenen Quartier and St. Lorenz (North) Department I , with a turnout of 82% with 334 of the 379 votes cast, he received one less than his brother, but was re-elected to the Senate. In 1913 he left the citizenry. After the First World War, the German People's Party succeeded the NLP and Thiel also became its member. After the politicization of the citizenship, he stood for the election of the Economic Association in 1924, despite his old age, as their top candidate . This increased his already high reputation in the city in his as well as in the "enemy" camp. The Red Power , as it was said in the newspapers after the election, was broken and the party the second strongest in the citizenry.

On the eve of the Kaiser’s birthday in 1892, the Reichsverein held a preliminary party in the large casino hall . After the singing of the imperial anthem Thiel held a German fatherland applicable speech . In 1894 it was in his home town of Lübeck. At the general assembly of the Reichsverein on October 24, 1894, he and Fehling , Eckhoff, Heyck, landowners Lauenstein and he were elected or confirmed to its board of directors. In 1899, at the meeting on November 24th, he was elected chairman of the association as well as Gebhardt and Vermehren .

Industry association

When the Lübeck Baltic Sea trade fell behind the Prussian Oder port of Stettin at the end of the 1880s, the people of Lübeck pushed their industrial policy . The most effective carrier of this development was the industrial association founded in 1889 . He was not only a representative of the interests of industrialists, the commercial circles also participated in his charitable work. As a local central association, he replaced institutions such as the Chamber of Commerce's industrial commission or the trade committee of the non-profit society .

The aim of the Lübeck Industry Association was to establish a factory district in Lübeck. At its general meeting on February 13, 1899, Thiel, Ewers, Sauermann and Syndikus Siewert were elected as their board members in the new elections.

At the instigation of the association's board, a commission consisting of Ewers, Meyer , Siewert and Thiel was formed for the "construction of a blast furnace near Lübeck". They commissioned Fritz Lürmann, a specialist in this field, to prepare an expert report to examine the project. This came to the conclusion that it was a “promising company”.

The plan to finance the project through external financial circles failed due to the machinations of the Rhenish-Westphalian large-scale industry , as it tried to prevent the emergence of new competition by all means. The Chamber of Commerce now turned to the merchants and they, together with the Senate, provided the share capital of the only blast furnace plant north of the coal mining area in Hörde (today a district of Dortmund ).

As early as 1905 it was clear that the Assmussche oil mill would relocate here from Kiel and that Villeroy & Boch would establish a branch not far from the plant.

In March 1906 Thiel gave a lecture on "What is a blast furnace?" In this case, the mode of operation of such has been discussed in detail using maps.

German-Nordic trade and industry exhibition

At the Württemberg State Exhibition in 1889, a sales and exhibition hall was built, which led to the establishment of the first sample warehouse. Lastingly impressed by this, Thiel was also inspired for such an exhibition for Lübeck. Following the lecture given by Ernst Elfeld to members of the industry association on "The promotion of export trade and industry through export associations as non-profit enterprises" on the evening of February 8, 1894, Thiel proposed the idea of ​​holding a trade and industry exhibition Lübeck before. He took care of its elaboration and submitted a detailed report to the association on October 13, 1894. Thereupon he voted almost unanimously for the acceptance of this project and formed a provisional exhibition committee under the chairmanship of Thiel.

At the meeting of the trade association on November 8, 1894, Thiel gave a lecture on "The German-Nordic Trade and Industry Exhibition in Lübeck 1895" and stated that this had been discussed in detail in the industrial association over the past two years. At Thiel's suggestion, Lange was elected president on November 11, and Possehl and Thiel were elected as his representatives on the exhibition committee. Mayor Behn was later appointed honorary president of the committee by the Senate . Because of Possehl's extensive business, the bulk of the work fell to Lange and Thiel.

Next, the location for the exhibition was determined. The former Galgenbrook near the castle gate and Gut Marly an Wakenitz were available as possible locations for this. The latter, which was chosen, was made available by Wallbrecht in preparation for the subsequent development of the building land he planned for villas near the city center. The buildings in the exhibition should be made by architects from Lübeck or Hamburg . The architect Thielen was awarded for his design of the main restaurant.

In order to get the most positive press response possible, the opening of the exhibition was brought forward to June 21, 1895 by six days parallel to the opening ceremonies of the Kiel Canal the day before, and the calculation worked . Over 40 journalists came from Kiel , viewed the exhibition and reported "extremely cheap". The Berlin columnist Paul Lindenberg was hired and his “forays” over the exhibition grounds were printed in 60 newspapers. 129 newspapers received news twice a week.

It was a universal exhibition. It had a trade show , horticultural , colonial and naval exhibition . The dairy industry was of particular importance in Lübeck. On September 7th, the opening of the III. Took place in the large hall of the main restaurant in the presence of the Senate, the board of directors of the German Dairy Society , the management of the German-Nordic Trade and Industry Exhibition and numerous judges and interested parties . German dairy exhibition . After the overture performed by the exhibition band , his second deputy, Thiel, welcomed those who appeared on behalf of the committee, instead of the president of the German dairy exhibition, who was prevented from doing so by indisposition .

At the end of the exhibition, after the national anthem , Lange ended it with a "cheer" to which all those present joined in on Possehl and Thiel.

The exhibition was in deficit. At the beginning of the exhibition, Thiel had already calculated a loss of 25,000 marks. No business was done at the exhibition and it was only after the World War that another deal was to take place in the Hanseatic city.

Memorial service

Commercial building (1925)

While the dead of the last war was commemorated in the Jakobikirche on November 22nd, 1925, Sunday of the Dead , the Chamber of Commerce held a memorial service for the deceased in the "Great Hall" of the commercial building, Breite Straße 12 .

In addition to the bereaved family appeared from the Senate Senator Heinsohn and Mayor Neumann , the Chamber of Commerce , the Chamber of Agriculture and the trade chambers of Hamburg and Bremen . Representatives of the “stamping and enamelling works”, the industry association, the association of German engineers , the Lübeck district association and the chief masters of the craft cooperations were there.

On the podium , behind which there was a picture of the deceased framed with laurels , the concert singer Klara Schmidt began the event with a litany . Then his friend, building advisor Fischer , stepped onto the podium and drew a picture of Thiel from his student days to his work as captain of industry. He read out the letter from the Senate and that of the Labor Authority, which they had sent to the Chamber of Commerce on the occasion of his death. In them they paid tribute to his services to the common good . Fischer ended up saying that Thiel was one of the most distinctive personalities in town, who was also valued by his opponents . Schmidt sang Wandrer's Nachtlied by Artur Rubinstein . The event ended at the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

family

Thiel was married to Lina (Elise Wilhelmine Caroline), a born Hees. At the time of his death belonged

Rudolf, board member of Georg Harder Maschinenbaufabrik GmbH

Willy was born as the second son on January 1st, 1881 in Schwartau. Moved to Lübeck, he visited the Katharineum there from Easter 1887 to 1900 . After passing the school leaving examination , Thiel joined the Lower Saxony Field Artillery Regiment No. 46 as a flag junior . This regiment had its garrison in Wolfenbüttel and Celle . As a lieutenant in the South West African Schutztruppe he fought with distinction from 1904 to 1906 during the campaign in South West Africa . before returning to his old regiment. After training in the seminar for oriental languages in Berlin, he finally transferred to the Imperial Protection Force in Cameroon . He excelled in the administration of the colony as well as in several military expeditions undertaken to secure the country. Before the outbreak of war he had as a captain and company commander the position of a military residents in the station Ngaundere held. When the war threatened the colonies, it directed the formation of the troops concentrated in Garua , where it fell. He had the Royal Prussian Crown Order as well as the Red Eagle Order IV class and with swords, the Brunswick Knight Cross 2nd Class with swords from the Order of Henry the Lion and the Honor Knight Cross 2nd Class with swords from the Oldenburg Order of Merit .

Erich, working in Valparaíso at the time of his death

his daughter Lotte was married to Herrmann Bürhaus

and four grandchildren

his family.

References

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Thiel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Heinrich Thiel †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1925/26, No. 1, edition of October 11, 1925, p. 1.
• Heinrich Thiel - 70 years old. In: Lübeckische Advertisements , Volume 175, No. 157, edition of July 7, 1925.
• Heinrich Thiel †. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 57th year, no. 54, edition of October 18, 1925, pp. 663–664.
• Oliver Korn (Hrsg.): Hanseatic industrial exhibitions in the 19th century: Republican self-expression, regional economic development and civil pleasure (social science studies) (German edition) . Leske + Budrich Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-8100-2348-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ enamel factories 1869-1914 in Rüdiger blessing Busch: Lübeck industrial culture, era - factories in Luebeck , Luebeck 1993, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild , ISBN 3-7950-0114-5 , pp 93-94.
2. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 15, No. 54, edition of July 9, 1873, p. 300.
3. ^ Agricultural exhibition in Bremen In: Lübeckische Blätter , 16th year, No. 52, edition of July 1, 1874, p. 307.
4. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 26, No. 71, Edition of September 3, 1884, p. 436.
5. ↑ Carl Thiel †. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 34, No. 25, Edition of March 27, 1892, p. 147.
6. ↑ Lübeck's first cigarette factory Lubeca in the chapter: Enamel factories 869-1914 in Rüdiger Segenbusch: Lübeck industrial culture , times of change - factories in Lübeck , Lübeck 1993, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild , ISBN 3-7950-0114-5 , pp. 92-110.
7. ^ J. Fahl: Lübeck's economic life in the present. An economic statistical study on the history of a commercial and industrial city. , Verlag Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck 1935, p. 124.
8. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 32, No. 85, edition of October 22, 1890, p. 508.
9. ↑ The Lübeck Chamber of Commerce was entrusted with the tasks of an economic authority as the board of the merchants.
10. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 39, No. 29, Edition of July 18, 1897, p. 358.
11. ^ Factory owner Heinrich Thiel †. In: Lübeckische advertisements , Volume 175, No. 235, edition of October 6, 1925.
12. ↑ Chamber of Commerce. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 32nd volume, no. 85, edition of October 22, 1890, pp. 506–507.
13. ^ Meeting of the trade association. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 34, No. 30, edition of April 13, 1892, p. 173.
14. ↑ Chamber of Commerce. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 34th volume, no. 78, edition of September 28, 1892, pp. 454–455.
15. ↑ Chamber of Commerce. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 36, No. 68, Issue of August 26, 1894, pp. 472–474.
16. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 32, No. 101, edition of December 17, 1890, p. 600.
17. ↑ Rudolf Friedrich Wilhelm Fromm was the owner of the colonial and material goods store Rud. Pious .
18. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 38th volume, No. 63, edition of December 20, 1896, p. 563.
19. ^ Meeting of the citizens' committee on April 8th. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 33rd volume, No. 28, edition of April 8, 1891, p. 169.
20. ↑ Father City Association. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 33rd volume, No. 31, edition of April 19, 1891, p. 188.
21. ↑ Citizens' Committee. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 35th year, no. 32, edition of April 19, 1893, pp. 186–187.
22. ↑ This year's citizenship elections. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 41, No. 27, edition of July 2, 1899, pp. 330–332.
23. ↑ The Reichsverein grew out of the middle-party association of the National Liberal Party .
24. ↑ Citizenship elections. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 49, No. 47, edition of November 24, 1907, p. 656.
25. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 34, No. 8, edition of January 27, 1892, p. 48.
26. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 36, No. 8, edition of January 28, 1894, p. 48.
27. ^ Reichsverein. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 36, No. 86, edition of October 28, 1894, p. 573.
28. ↑ Gebhardt was director of the Hanseatic Insurance Company for Disability and Old Age Insurance at that time .
29. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 41, No. 48, edition of November 26, 1899, p. 626.
30. ↑ Luise Klinsmann: Die Industrialisierung Lübeck , Lübeck 1983, p. 38.
31. ^ Sauermann was a partner in the Hansa brewery .
32. ^ Franz Siewert was the business editor of the Lübecker Zeitung
33. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 41, No. 8, edition of February 9, 1899, p. 91.
34. ↑ Herrmann Meyer was the owner of the Schlutup chemical factory .
35. ↑ Annual report of the Lübeck Industry Association. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 48, No. 12, Edition of March 25, 1906, pp. 176–179.
36. ^ Meeting of the trade association. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 37, No. 20, edition of March 10, 1895, pp. 120–122.
37. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 36, No. 91, edition of November 14, 1894, p. 610.
38. ↑ Opening of the III. German dairy exhibition. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 37, No. 72, edition of September 8, 1895, pp. 461–464.
39. ↑ The end of the exhibition. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 37, No. 79, edition of October 2, 1895, pp. 497–498.
40. ↑ Hinko Fischer was a board member and operations director of Maschinenbau GmbH.
41. ^ A memorial service for Heinrich Thiel. In: Lübeckische Advertisements , Volume 175, No. 275, issue of November 23, 1925.
42. ↑ At that time the first son traditionally succeeded his father's business and the second went into the military.
43. ↑ The "Uprising of the Herero and Nama" on which the campaign was based resulted in a genocide of the Herero and Nama.
44. ↑ Captain Willy Thiel †. In Von Lübeck's Towers ; Volume 25, No. 39, edition from September 25, 1915, pp. 305 + 311.
45. ↑ Captain Willy Thiel †. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 57, No. 36, edition of September 5, 1915, pp. 503–504.