Johann Baptist Doerr

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Johann Baptist Doerr (born March 11, 1811 in Mainz , † November 12, 1892 in Worms ) was a secret councilor and entrepreneur from Hesse .

Life and work

Doerr was born in Mainz as the son of the building contractor and master mason Josef Ignaz Doerr and his wife, Katharine Hochgesand. In Worms, he founded the Doerr & Reinhart leather works with entrepreneur and member of parliament Nikolaus Andreas Reinhart , which in its heyday employed around 3000 people.

With the founding of the leather works, a competition arose to the already existing leather works Heyl'sche Lederwerke ; together over 9,000 people were employed. The founding families Doerr and Reinhart subsequently developed a connubium when Doerr married Reinhart's daughter Anna Reinhart on October 28, 1853 in Worms.

The company founded by him and the industrialist Reinhart later took on a pioneering role in society by offering a company canteen and other social benefits in addition to a health and death benefit fund .

Doerr was involved with his wife, among other things, in the education sector; So he donated 5,000 guilders to a Worms advanced training school, which had set itself the goal of providing opportunities for advanced training for the sons of impoverished working-class families .

From 1871 to 1874 Doerr was a member of the Worms city council, and from 1876-1892 president of the Worms Chamber of Commerce , of which he had been a member since 1854. The highest honor bestowed on him was the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous on October 19, 1874. On May 7, 1879, he was awarded the title of Privy Councilor of Commerce .

From his marriage to Anna geb. Reinhart had a son (Fritz) and three daughters (Elisabeth * 1855, Anna * 1857, Marie * 1858).

Johann Baptist Doerr died on November 12, 1892 in Worms.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Doerr, Johann Baptist. Hessian biography. (As of August 27, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Kaiser Passage shows the original for the first time: Nibelungen Kurier - The newspaper for Worms and the Nibelungenland. In: nibelungen-kurier.de. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
  3. ^ Fritz Reuter : History of the City of Worms . 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 456 f .
  4. ^ Fritz Reuter: Worms between imperial city and industrial city 1800–1882 . Stadtarchiv , Worms 1993, p. 96 .
personal data
SURNAME Doerr, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Entrepreneur in the Grand Duchy of Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1892
Place of death Worms