Jacob Hecht

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Jacob Hecht (born June 25, 1879 in Gondelsheim ; † April 5, 1963 in Basel ; legal domicile there ) was a German - Swiss entrepreneur. He was one of the leading inland shipping entrepreneurs in Germany.

Life

Jacob Hecht was born as the youngest of five children of the Jewish main teacher and cantor Simon Hecht. He grew up in the Leitergasse in Gondelsheim, in an extension of the synagogue . After attending elementary school in Gondelsheim, he switched to the Schönborn grammar school in Bruchsal . After a commercial apprenticeship at the Bruchsal Bankhaus Bär, he and his brother Hermann Hecht founded the German Rhenania-Speditions-Gesellschaft in 1908 , which developed into an “inland shipping empire”.

Jakob Hecht married Flora Ella Mohr on November 5, 1908 in Frankenthal, born on August 20, 1887 in Frankenthal, died on February 28, 1872 in Basel, the daughter of the soap manufacturer Samuel Mohr and his wife Hermine Cahn. After the wedding, the young couple moved to Antwerp. The children Rudolf Karel (born on August 15, 1909, died on April 15, 1993 in Haifa / Israel) and Willi Werner (born on April 19, 1914, died on March 18, 2001 in Jerusalem / Israel) were born in Antwerp .

Jacob Hecht emigrated to Switzerland with his family in 1919/20 and founded the Neptun shipping company in Basel. He remained chairman of the supervisory board of the Rhenania shipping and forwarding company in Mannheim . Shortly before the outbreak of World War II , the German branches of the Hecht brothers were Aryanized according to the language used at the time . At the end of 1933, Jacob Hecht took on Swiss citizenship .

Honors

Jacob Hecht was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959 . In 1958 the community of Gondelsheim made Jacob Hecht an honorary citizen on the occasion of its 700th anniversary celebration. There is also a Jacob-Hecht-Straße in Gondelsheim. A Jacob Hecht Foundation of Rhenus Alpina AG still exists in Basel today .

literature

  • Hermann Hecht : The creation of the Rhenania group. The first thirty years . Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 3-921524-37-7 [not evaluated]
  • Jacob Hecht: Eight generations of the Hecht family: from Lower Franconia, Bavaria; 1762-2005 . Jerusalem 2005 [not evaluated]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Theobald: Jewish fellow citizens in Frankenthal with the districts of Eppstein and Flomersheim from 1800 to 1940
personal data
SURNAME Pike, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pike, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Gondola home
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1963
Place of death Basel