Henkel (entrepreneurial family)

Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Henkel, approx. 1928

Fritz Henkel, son of the company's founder Friedrich Karl Henkel, around 1926

Jost Henkel, grandson of the company's founder Friedrich Karl Henkel, around 1950

Konrad Henkel, approx. 1975

The entrepreneurial family Henkel founded and still operates the consumer goods and chemicals group Henkel .

history

In 1876 the entrepreneur Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Henkel founded the detergent factory Henkel & Cie in Aachen . His first product was a powder detergent based on water glass . It was called universal detergent. Henkel moved his company to Düsseldorf in 1878 because of better transport connections and higher sales opportunities . In the same year, the company had its first brand success with Henkel's Bleich-Soda. In 1907, Henkel brought Persil onto the market, advertised as "the world's first automatic laundry detergent". In 1918, Sil was introduced as a laundry rinse aid. Two years later, Henkel opened up the Ata brand the cleaning agent market segment.

Starting with the company founder Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Henkel, his descendants have led and continue to run the company to this day. The descendants can be divided into three branches of the family, which can be traced back to the three children Fritz, Hugo and Emmy of the company founder:

Fritz jun. began his career in his father's company in 1893 with a commercial apprenticeship, received power of attorney in 1899 and was appointed personally liable partner in 1904. A year later, the later son Hugo started working in the company after completing his chemistry studies. He was the company's first fully trained chemist with a doctorate and became a personally liable partner in 1908. Both sons thus formed a double pillar of the business from a commercial and technical point of view. Her sister Emmy, who had been married to the independent businessman Ernst Hugo Lüps since 1904, also became a personally liable partner in 1911, but was not involved in the management of the company.

Descendants of Friedrich Karl Henkel

I. Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Henkel (* March 20, 1848 in Vöhl ; † March 1, 1930 in Rengsdorf ) ∞ Elisabeth von den Steinen (* January 23, 1852; † November 5, 1905)

II.1. August Henkel (born July 8, 1874 in Aachen, † June 8, 1879 in Vöhl) died at the age of 4

II.2. Fritz Henkel (* July 25, 1875 in Aachen; † January 4, 1930 in Unkel ) ∞ Anna Alexandrine "Anny" Wülfing (* July 6, 1884 in Düsseldorf; † September 22, 1936)

III.1. Ilse Elisabeth Henkel (* July 24, 1908 in Düsseldorf; † October 24, 1991 ibid) ∞ Carl August Bagel (born June 9, 1902 in Düsseldorf; † July 13, 1941 ibid)

IV.1. Fritz Bagel ∞ Anja Bohlan (married name Bagel-Bohlan)

V.1. Simone Bagel (born January 10, 1969 in Düsseldorf; married name Bagel-Trah)

III.2. Sigrid Henkel (born August 30, 1911 in Düsseldorf; † March 4, 1966 ibid) ∞ Wilhelm "Willy" Julius Manchot (born July 10, 1907 in Würzburg ; † October 24, 1985 in Düsseldorf)

II.3. Hugo Wilhelm Henkel (born January 21, 1881 in Düsseldorf; † December 18, 1952 in Ratingen- Hösel ) ∞ Gerda Janssen (* August 7, 1888 in Düsseldorf; † June 18, 1966 there)

III.1. Karl Jost Henkel (born July 27, 1909 in Düsseldorf; † July 7, 1961 there) died at the age of 51

III.3. Elisabeth Henkel (born May 1, 1914 in Düsseldorf; † August 29, 1998; known as Lisa Maskell , founder of the Gerda Henkel Foundation ) ∞ Ernst Petersen (born June 6, 1906 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † March 30, 1959 in Ihringen )

IV.1. Anette Petersen (born April 1, 1936 in Stendal ; † May 1, 1999 in Cologne ) ∞ Udo Brandhorst (* 1939)

III.4. Konrad Henkel (born October 25, 1915 in Düsseldorf; † April 24, 1999 ibid) ∞ second marriage (1955) to Gabriele Hünermann (* December 9, 1931; † September 28, 2017 in Düsseldorf)

IV.1. Christoph Henkel (born February 11, 1958)

II.4. Emmy Anna Henkel (born September 8, 1884 in Düsseldorf; † September 19, 1941 ibid) ∞ Ernst Hugo Lüps (born June 14, 1873 in Orsoy ; † May 26, 1933 in Düsseldorf)

III.1. Ellen Elisabeth Lüps (born December 9, 1904 in Düsseldorf) ∞ Reinhold Woeste, Dipl.-Ing.

IV.1. Albrecht Woeste (born October 30, 1935 in Düsseldorf) ∞ Renate Röpke

literature

Carl vom Berg: Contributions to the history of the Henkel family. Based on the "Family tree of the Henkel 1470–1912, manuscript by C. Adolf Stattmann Stuttgart 1912" . Printed by: A. Bagel , Düsseldorf 1924, DNB 361818572 .

Henkel, from Wallau in Hesse. In: Bernhard Koerner (Ed.): Hessian gender book. Volume 3 - Volume 52 of the complete series of the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families . Starke Verlag , 1927, ZDB -ID 2252-4 , p. 238-257 .

Gerda Henkel: The papermaker's ancestors in the pedigree of the Henkel siblings . Printed by: Henkel, Düsseldorf-Hösel 1941, DNB 580908542 , p. 247-250 .

Liesel and Franz Konrad: family book Wallau (Lahn) and Weifenbach . In: Writings of the Hessian Family History Association e. V . No. 34 . Hessian Family History Association, Darmstadt 2001, DNB 96319920X .

The following publications by the Henkel company are essentially dedicated to the history of the company; In addition, they provide biographical information on the family members involved in the company and their leadership roles:

Fritz Henkel : Forty years of purposeful work by Henkel & Cie, Düsseldorf, chemical products factory in Düsseldorf 1916 ( digitized version )
Henkel und Cie GmbH (ed.): Henkel - A work of economic creation and social responsibility. Published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Henkel & Cie. GmbH, Düsseldorf . Printed by: Bruckmann KG Munich, Düsseldorf 1951.
Henkel und Cie GmbH (Ed.): A series of images to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Henkel & Cie GmbH Düsseldorf, chemical products factory on September 26, 1951 . Henkel und Cie GmbH, printed by A. Bagel , Düsseldorf 1951.
Henkel und Cie GmbH (ed.): 1876–1976 - 100 years of Henkel . Print: Fritz Busche Druckereigesellschaft mbH Dortmund, Düsseldorf 1976, DNB 790609061 (201 pages).
Wilfried Feldenkirchen , Susanne Hilger: People and Brands: 125 Years of Henkel, 1876–2001 . Ed .: Ernst Primosch and Wolfgang Zengerling on behalf of Henkel KGaA. Henkel KGaA, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-923324-79-0 (404 pages, henkel.de [PDF]).
Henkel KGaA (Ed.): Chronicle 130 years of Henkel . 2006, ISBN 3-923324-08-1 , ISSN 0724-2557 (128 pages, henkel.de [PDF]).

swell

Carl vom Berg 1924
Liesel and Franz Konrad 2001

References and comments

↑ Feldenkirchen / Hilger 2001, p. 25, online
↑ Carl August Bagel comes from the Bagel family of entrepreneurs from Düsseldorf .
↑ Carl vom Berg was a genealogist who was commissioned by the Henkel family to research and present the genealogy of the entrepreneurial family. His research results go back to the year 1450. The quoted work was created for use within the entrepreneurial family and was therefore not published in stores. The work is to be viewed critically, as it has been proven to have errors.
↑ The Hessian gender book states that the Henkel first appeared in a document in Wallau in 1516 . The progenitor of the family treated here is a Hermann Henckel . One of the regular estates of the Henkel was the Hatzfelder Hof .
↑ The entrepreneurial family Henkel is related to some old papermaking families, including the Illig family of paper manufacturers, whose most famous offspring was Moritz Friedrich Illig . He invented the glueing of paper in bulk .
↑ The work of the Konrad couple is a church book mapping of the church book of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Wallau in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district . There are u. a. Information about the parents of the company founder Fritz Henkel and his ancestors, who for several generations came mainly from Wallau and the surrounding area (e.g. Breidenbach ).

[MenschenUndMarken-25-1] Feldenkirchen / Hilger 2001, p. 25, online

[2] Carl August Bagel comes from the Bagel family of entrepreneurs from Düsseldorf .

[Berg-3] Carl vom Berg was a genealogist who was commissioned by the Henkel family to research and present the genealogy of the entrepreneurial family. His research results go back to the year 1450. The quoted work was created for use within the entrepreneurial family and was therefore not published in stores. The work is to be viewed critically, as it has been proven to have errors.

[HG-4] The Hessian gender book states that the Henkel first appeared in a document in Wallau in 1516 . The progenitor of the family treated here is a Hermann Henckel . One of the regular estates of the Henkel was the Hatzfelder Hof .

[Gerda_Henkel-5] The entrepreneurial family Henkel is related to some old papermaking families, including the Illig family of paper manufacturers, whose most famous offspring was Moritz Friedrich Illig . He invented the glueing of paper in bulk .

[Konrad-6] The work of the Konrad couple is a church book mapping of the church book of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Wallau in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district . There are u. a. Information about the parents of the company founder Fritz Henkel and his ancestors, who for several generations came mainly from Wallau and the surrounding area (e.g. Breidenbach ).