Hermann Elting

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Hermann Elting

Hermann Elting (born May 22, 1838 in Isselburg ; † July 14, 1898 in Essen ) was a German entrepreneur and city ​​councilor for the city of Essen.

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Hermann Elting founded a construction company in 1866/67. He was also a carpenter and timber merchant and had owned a sawmill near Holzstrasse in what is now Essen's northern district since 1867 .

Elting worked in several organizations and associations of a church and social nature. From 1876 until his death he was a city councilor in the city council of Essen.

At the end of the 19th century, Elting had numerous residential buildings built in Essen's northern district, which still shape the cityscape today. They initially served the workers of the formerly neighboring Victoria Mathias colliery . This settlement is now called the Elting Quarter and represents the first and therefore oldest planned inner city expansion of Essen. Many of these houses were listed between 1987 and 1994 (see list of architectural monuments in the northern quarter (Essen) ) after some after being destroyed in the Second World War were mostly rebuilt true to the original. The Eltingstraße located here was named after Hermann Elting in 1937. It was previously called Hermannstrasse since 1895, also named after him. Eltingplatz has the same chronicle.

The market side of the old Essen town hall was adorned with eight heads carved in stone of the ten-person municipal building commission who pushed ahead with the construction of this town hall, including the 50 cm bust of Hermann Elting. Today it is owned by his descendants.

Hermann Elting was buried in the Segeroth cemetery. After it was released, his tombstone was taken to a cemetery in Luxembourg, where the family went.

literature

  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
  • Robert Weltzel: Building contractors as housing manufacturers - The Essen house kings and their contribution to urban development 1850–1929 ; In: Essener contributions 124 (2011), pp. 51–250

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dietmar Mauer: Elting bust should find a place in the quarter ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 27, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Elting, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and city councilor for the city of Essen
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Isselburg
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1898
Place of death eat