Heinrich von Korn

Heinrich von Korn

Heinrich August Jacob Korn , from 1882 von Korn (born April 6, 1829 in Breslau ; † March 20, 1907 there ) was a German publisher, banker and local politician.

Live and act

Heinrich Korn was born into the Korn family as the son of the bookseller and city ​​councilor Julius Korn (1799–1837) and Bertha von Kospoth (1797–1866) . He attended the Realschule am Zwinger in Breslau until he was 15, the Leipzig commercial college from Easter 1844 to January 1, 1846, and learned from April 1846 to April 1848 in the Gropius bookstore in Berlin. In 1850 he took over his father's company, which was temporarily managed by Friedrich Adolph Voigt after his father's death. In the same year he became a partner in Gropius' book and art dealership in Berlin. In 1851 he founded the Ernst & Korn publishing house with Wilhelm Ernst and remained a partner until 1886. In 1853 he bought a paper mill in Sakrau near Breslau. He also expanded the publisher's own Schlesische Zeitung . He was also the founder of the Breslauer Discount Bank (1870) and the Silesian Bodenkreditbank (1872).

Korn was 1861-1863 city councilor and 1863-1891 unpaid city council . In 1872 he became head of the promenade administration and also worked in the poor. From 1888 to 1907 he was a member of the Silesian Provincial Parliament and from 1891 also of the Provincial Committee. From 1895 to 1907 he was provincial commissioner for the educational institution for the blind in Breslau, as well as chairman of the provincial association of the Red Cross . After he resigned as a city councilor in 1891, the city of Wroclaw appointed him city elder . As early as September 4, 1882 at Babelsberg Castle with a diploma from September 13, 1882 in Breslau, he was raised to the hereditary nobility on the occasion of the 150th business anniversary .

Korn had been a member of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture since 1853 and became an honorary member in 1903. In 1858 he was one of the founding members of the Association for the Museum of Silesian Antiquities (renamed in 1906 to Schlesischer Altertumsverein) and in 1887 became an honorary member. From 1876 to 1903 he was chairman of the consistory of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, which opened its doors in 1880. In 1896 he donated 500,000 marks to the city for the new Silesian Museum of Applied Arts and Antiquities. On the occasion of the opening of the Silesian Museum of Applied Arts and Antiquities, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wroclaw in 1899 .

family

On January 25, 1859, he married Helene Moriz-Eichborn (1840–1909) with whom he had two sons (Heinrich (1859–1884) and Erich (1864–1891)) who died early and had two daughters:

• Luise Marie Berta (* April 12, 1861) ⚭ 1882 Richard von Bergmann († October 29, 1906), son of Lieutenant General Richard von Bergmann
• Marie Christiane Dorothee (* December 13, 1866) ⚭ 1889 Konstantin von Schweinichen († July 7, 1911), Herr auf Pawelwitz

He was the uncle of Heinrich and Paul von Schroeter .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, page 428, Volume 91 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987.

literature

• Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1919, thirteenth year, p.448
• Adalbert Brauer:  Korn, Heinrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 587 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Karl Friedrich Pfau :  Korn: WG Korn, publishing bookstore and printing house in Breslau . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 338 f.
• Karl Masner and Hans Seger (eds.): Yearbook of the Silesian Museum for Applied Arts and Antiquities (= Silesian prehistory in pictures and writing. New series). Breslau 1900–1909, Volume 1 , p. 17 (in the article History of the former Museum of Silesian Antiquities by Hans Seger), 28–31 (in the article The Efforts to Found a Museum of Applied Arts in Breslau by Georg Bender ), 33 (in the article The Museum Building ), 167 and 169–170 (in the opening ceremony article ); Volume 2 , p. 179 (article listing the bust of the city elder Heinrich von Korn ); Volume 5, p. 226 ( Heinrich von Korn † , with picture on the board after p. 224), 279–280 (in the activity report for the year 1906/7 ).
• Franz Neubert (editor): German contemporary lexicon . Schulze, Leipzig 1905, Col. 783-784.
• Obituary. In: 85th annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture . 1907, Nekrolog, pp. 18-22.
• Manfred Raether (Ed.): 150 Years of the Schlesische Zeitung (1742–1892); New edition of the book published in 1892 as an e-book; Schöneck, 2008.
• Otto Röse: Heinrich von Korn . In: Schlesische Lebensbilder. Volume 1, 1922, pp. 22-27 (with picture).
• Karl Weigelt: 150 years of the Schlesische Zeitung. Korn, Breslau 1892, especially p. 195.
• Article Korn, family . In: Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers, German book printers. Volume III, Weber, Berlin 1905, pp. 575–581, in particular p. 580 (comment after the Neue Deutsche Biographie: the information about the origin of the Korn family is - as in the Gotha. Briefadl. Paperback from 1908 - wrong, the publisher's history Information correct from 1732).
• Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 12, 1907, Reimer, Berlin 1909, Col. 48 *.
• The week. Modern illustrated magazine . No. 13, March 30, 1907, p. 542 (with picture on p. 548).
• Who is it 2nd edition, Degener, Leipzig 1906, p. 630; 3rd edition, Degener, Leipzig 1908, p. 1571.