Helene Hecht

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Helene Hecht (born August 19, 1854 in Mainz ; † October 22 or 24, 1940 in an unknown location; born as Helena Bamberger ) was a German salonnière and patroness .

family

Helena Bamberger was the daughter of Rudolf Bamberger (* February 4, 1821; † June 7, 1900), born in Mainz, and his wife Bertha Bamberger (* December 3, 1827; † September 23, 1915), née Seligmann, who was born in Kreuznach . She was a niece of the banker and politician Ludwig Bamberger .

From 1875 on, Helena Bamberger was the wife of the Jewish lawyer, banker and businessman Felix Hecht (born November 27, 1847 in Friedberg ; † October 18, 1909 on a trip between Eisenach and Weimar) and the mother of four sons: Hans Paul, an English graduate Jakob Hecht (1876–1946), August Hecht (* May 24, 1878; † December 30, 1879), Rudolf Ludwig Hecht (* October 31, 1880; † 1959) and Arnold Robert Hecht (* August 12, 1885; † 2 April 1886).

Her husband was in 1871 on the recommendation of his professor Johann Caspar Bluntschli founding director of the Rheinische Hypothekenbank and the Pfälzische Hypothekenbank in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

Life

Together with her husband, around 1899 she was involved in founding the Mannheim University of Music, the forerunner of today's State University of Music and Performing Arts .

"Villa Helene" (today: "Villa Hecht") in Mannheim , etchings by Bernhard Mannfeld

Helene Hecht, who was considered very educated and culturally involved in a variety of ways, ran the largest salon in the city of Mannheim together with Berta Hirsch (1850–1913), who was also the founder of Germany's first reading room. In this, the two women enabled communication between artists and well-known citizens and at the same time opened up a way of promoting these artists through patrons.

The guests of the family, who had owned a representative villa in Mannheim designed by Rudolf Tillessen since 1892 , included the composer Johannes Brahms , with whom her husband was friends, and the painter Franz von Lenbach . The latter made paintings for the Hecht family, later looted by the Nazis , exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich, which is now located in the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim after a detour .

At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, the villa was a meeting place for the society of that time, the bohemians . Johannes Brahms always stayed there during his stays in Mannheim. There were several rooms in the building that had grand pianos . In today's "Villa Hecht", still trading as "Villa Helene" at the time, exhibitions, music and lecture events as well as soirées took place. Today there is a psychiatric day clinic in the "Villa Hecht".

At the age of 86, Helene Hecht was picked up by the police on the night of October 21-22, 1940 , to be deported to the French internment camp in Gurs . She did not reach the planned destination alive.

Honor

In Mannheim a street was named after her, the Helene-Hecht-Ring.

Helene Hecht Prize

Since 2009, the city of Mannheim has been awarding a prize to women artists every two years, which is endowed with 3,000 euros.

Publications

  • Our trip to Asia Minor and Greece in the spring of 1891. Mannheim 1891.

literature

  • Barbara Becker: "In Mannheim I have so many pretty and beautiful people to think about ..." Helene Hecht - A portrait with emotions. In: Ilse Thomas, Sylvia Schraut ( eds. ): ZeitenWandel. Generations of women in the history of Mannheim. 1995, pp. 278-291.
  • Susanne Schlösser: Helene Hecht. In: Badische Biographien, New Series, Vol. 6. Commission for Historical Regional Studies, Stuttgart 2011, pp. 177–178.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hecht, Felix , in: German National Library, on: d-nb.info, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  2. ^ Hecht, Helene , in: Landesbibliographie Baden-Württemberg, at: baden-wuerttemberg.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ Hirsch, Berta in: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, on: d-nb.info, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  4. ^ Hirsch, Berta , in: Landesbibliographie Baden-Württemberg, from: baden-wuerttemberg.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  5. ↑ Hirsch, Berta , on: leo-bw.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  6. ↑ Helene Hecht Prize 2017 , from: soroptimist-club-speyer.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  7. ^ "Villa Hecht" in Mannheim , on: bildindex.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  8. ↑ Photo: Franz von Lenbach: Paintings by Felix Hecht and Helene Hecht , in: Focus, January 22, 2015, on: focus.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  9. ↑ Portraits with an eventful history exhibited in Mannheim. In: Focus, January 22, 2015, at: focus.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  10. ↑ Peter W. Ragge: “Bilderkrimi” ends well. In: Mannheimer Morgen , January 23, 2015, at: morgenweb.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  11. ^ Ferdinand Werner: Mannheimer Villen: Architecture and living culture in the squares and the east city. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2009, ISBN 978-3-88462289-6 , p. 279.
  12. ↑ Press release: Kunsthalle has been handing over looted art pictures in custody to Reiss Engelhorn museums since 1951. From: kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  13. ↑ Portraits with an eventful history in Mannheim. In: Schwäbische Zeitung , January 22, 2015, at: schwaebische.de, accessed on December 9, 2015.
  14. ↑ Day clinic for the sick for 30 years. In: Mannheimer Morgen, September 19, 2012, from: morgenweb.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  15. ^ Lecture on Helene Hecht. From: zi-mannheim.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  16. ↑ Press release of August 28, 2014 , from: zi-mannheim.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  17. ↑ Uta-Caecilia Nabert: The honored woman invites. In: Mannheimer Morgen, January 12, 2011, at: morgenweb.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  18. ↑ Announcement for the Helene Hecht Prize 2017 , on: mannheim.de, accessed on December 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hecht, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bamberger, Helena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German salonnière and patroness
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH October 1940