Karl August Heynen
Karl August Heynen (*? Probably Barmen ; † May 1943 in Wuppertal ) was the founder of the first health food store .
Around 1900 Karl August Heynen opened a retail store in Barmen (today a district of Wuppertal ) and called it the “Reformhaus Jungbrunnen”. Additional branches were opened in Kassel , Mönchengladbach , Magdeburg , Würzburg , Nuremberg , Freiburg im Breisgau and Strasbourg . These locations later changed hands, but some of them still exist today. The parent company was destroyed in the Second World War in the air raid on Barmen in May 1943 , in which Heyen and his wife were killed.
literature
- Paths and aberrations to the modern cult of slimness: Diet food and physical culture ... By Merta, Sabine
- An introduction to youth cultures: veganism and tattoos
Individual evidence
- ↑ 100 years of health food store history at the Vegetarian Association of Germany ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sabine Merta: Paths and wrong ways to the modern cult of slimness: Diet food and physical culture as a search for new forms of lifestyle 1880-1930 . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-515-08109-2 ( books.google.com ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heynen, Karl August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heynen, Carl August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Founder of the first health food store |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | unsure: Barmen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1943 |
| Place of death | Wuppertal |