Herbert von Meister
Herbert Eugen Albert Meister , from 1888 by Meister , (born December 26, 1866 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 2, 1919 in Sindlingen ) was a son of one of the founders of Farbwerke Meister Lucius & Brüning (1865) and later chairman of the board of Farbwerke vorm . Master Lucius & Brüning AG .
Life
Meister was born as the son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meister , one of the founders of Farbwerke Hoechst , and his wife Marie, b. Becker born. Meister studied chemistry from 1887 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1887 he was reciprocated in the Corps Palatia Bonn . As an inactive , he went to TH Dresden and the University of Jena , including Paul Duden . In 1894 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1896/97 he went on a world tour with Robert Pschorr .
Von Meister married Elisabeth (Else) Humser, a daughter of the notary Gustav Humser (1836–1918) and his wife Anna (1848–1880) in Frankfurt am Main on September 18, 1897 . After a brief activity in the chemical industry in Munich, he joined the Hoechst paint factory in 1898. At the Hoechst dye works, his specialty was the production of artificial indigos . From 1902 he was a member of the board responsible for production. After the death of Gustav von Brüning in 1913, he became chairman of the board. In 1916 he left the board of directors and became a member of the supervisory board.
From 1904 he was also a member of the city council of Höchst am Main . From 1913 to 1917 he represented the district of Höchst in the Nassau municipal parliament . He was a Protestant and was buried in the Sindlingen cemetery. The grave is a listed building.
Others
In 1888, in the year three emperors , Herbert and his older brother Wilhelm were raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility by Wilhelm II as King of Prussia .
In 1902 Herbert von Meister acquired a property not far from the Farbwerke on the banks of the Main near Sindlingen and had the Villa Lindenbaum built here in 1903/04 according to plans by the Frankfurt architect Franz von Hoven alongside other buildings , where he and his wife Else († 1967) and hers Daughter Elisabeth († 1986) lived. The building, which is now listed as Villa Meister, housed the Institute for Applied Geodesy until 1980 after the Second World War . From 1982 the site was used for a rehabilitation clinic for addiction help .
Fonts
- The artificial indigo and its preliminary products. (1902) (= documents from Hoechster archives. 22, ZDB -ID 500640-5 ). Farbwerke Hoechst, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
literature
- Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pp. 229-230.
Web links
- Literature by and about Herbert von Meister in the catalog of the German National Library
- Master, Herbert Eugen Albert von. Hessian biography. (As of February 14, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Meister, Herbert (von) in the Frankfurt dictionary of persons
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 14/507.
- ↑ Dissertation: About pyrazoles with a strongly basic character .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Master, Herbert von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meister, Herbert Eugen Albert von; Master, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 2, 1919 |
| Place of death | Sindlingen |