Julius heart

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Julius Herz , from 1887: Julius Herz Ritter von Hertenried (born May 10, 1825 in Bayreuth ; died August 11, 1910 in Reichenau an der Rax ) was a German - Austrian railway engineer . Under his direction, the St. Gallisch-Appenzell Railway operated the Rorschach – St. Gallen and St. Gallen – Winterthur in Switzerland . He was one of the few Jews who were ennobled .

Grave of Julius Herz von Hertenried in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Julius Herz was born as one of eleven children of the Jewish merchant Samson Herz (1784-1859) and his wife Rosalia (née Rindskopf; 1775-1863). One of his older brothers was the doctor and professor Jakob Herz . With his wife Henriette (née Oettinger; 1833-1896), a doctor's daughter whom he married in Augsburg in 1853 , Julius Herz had the children Carl, Hertha, Ida, Ludwig, Otto Jakob and Paul.

After his first school year in his hometown, he attended the Latin school in Munich and then returned to Bayreuth to the district agricultural and trade school . He developed an interest in technical subjects early on. Back in Munich, Herz attended the polytechnic school and, from 1843, the engineering school there, which he successfully completed in 1846. From November 1946 he worked as a technical assistant on behalf of the Nuremberg Railway Construction Commission . His contacts with the revolutionary movement in 1848/1849 led to a three-month prison sentence with subsequent release on bail. In 1850 he worked in Nuremberg for the royal building inspection. Several times he asked to be reassigned to the Railway Construction Commission and was finally hired in January 1851 as an engineering trainee at the Würzburg railway construction section responsible for the construction of the Ludwigs-Westbahn .

In 1853, Herz took a leave of absence from the Bavarian service because an attractive offer for railway construction was made to him from Switzerland. In September 1855 he became head of the technical office of the Centralbahn in Basel . In June 1857 he moved to Vienna , where he planned several railway lines and also became a technical consultant at Creditanstalt .

In 1875 Herz submitted the official application for expatriation to Austria and on September 23 of that year swore the Austrian oath of subjects . In 1884 he was appointed President of the Board of Directors of Kaiser Ferdinand's Northern Railway . On April 2, 1887, he was raised to the nobility and from May 24, 1887 he carried the inheritable Austrian-Hereditary title "Knight of Hertenried".

Throughout his life he remained connected to his hometown and paid contributions to the Bayreuth Jewish community. Julius Herz von Hertenried found his final resting place in the old Israelite department in the Vienna Central Cemetery . In his will he donated 12,000 marks in favor of poor people in Bayreuth regardless of their religion, this amount formed the basis for the Julius Herz von Hertenried'sche charity foundation .

In his birthplace Bayreuth, where he was born in Kulmbacher Strasse 7, a street was named after him in 1910. In 1933 the National Socialists erased the name Herzstrasse because of its Jewish origins and renamed it Eduard-Bayerlein-Strasse. After the end of the "Third Reich" the renaming was not reversed. Instead, the name Jakob-Herz-Straße was given in 1988 in honor of his brother Jakob, who was also born in the city.

The birth house of the brothers Julius and Jakob Herz was demolished after 1974.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Herz's obituary , accessed on March 27, 2013.
  2. ↑ Personalities of the railway industry, railway technology and the art of railway construction - engineers, architects, builders -, p. 12 (PDF file) accessed on March 27, 2013
  3. ↑ On the trail of Jewish life in Bayreuth (PDF file) accessed on March 27, 2013
  4. ^ Jewish nobility at hagalil.com, accessed January 12, 2015
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Christine Bartholomäus: From Emanuel Osmond to Hilde Marx . In: Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Bayreuth (ed.): Jüdisches Bayreuth . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2010, ISBN 978-3-925361-81-4 , pp. 105 ff .
  6. ↑ Genealogy educates! - ennobled Jewish families , accessed March 27, 2013.
  7. ↑ Rosa and Volker carbon home: Bayreuth from AZ. Lexicon of Bayreuth street names . C. and C. Rabenstein, Bayreuth 2009, ISBN 978-3-928683-44-9 , pp. 60 .
  8. ↑ Rosa and Volker carbon home: Bayreuth from AZ , p. 67
  9. ^ Kurt Herterich : A Bayreuth street triangle . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 1994, ISBN 978-3-925361-21-0 , pp. 30 .
personal data
SURNAME Heart, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian railway engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1910
Place of death Reichenau on the Rax