Leonard Drory

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Leonard Drory (born October 21, 1800 in Colchester , Essex, † July 7, 1866 in Berlin ) was a British engineer and gas works entrepreneur. He was part of an English family network that provided numerous gas works managers across the continent in the 19th century.

Life

Leonard's brother George William Drory (1803-1879) had entered the service of the Imperial Continental Gas Association (ICGA) in 1826 . Leonard Drory himself came to Berlin for the first time in 1828 to oversee the construction of the English Gas Enlightenment Institute on the street Vor dem Hallescher Thore (later Hellweg, today Gitschiner Straße 18–31; Prinzenbad ) in Kreuzberg for the ICGA.

At the same time he was in charge of the construction and operation of the gas works in Hanover , while George William Drory was in Berlin. Leonard Drory was extremely unpopular with the Hanover city administration. There were complaints about the inadequate restoration of the pavement after the pipes had been laid and that gas pipes were frozen. In 1833 he was replaced by Friedrich Ernst Körting (1802-1882; Körting had completed an apprenticeship as a businessman at the grocer Friedrich Wilhelm Haase Jr., Brunnen-Haase , who had leased the oil lighting from Hanover in 1816, taught the Drory sons and was now administrator) and transferred to Berlin, where he became director of the ICGA in Berlin that same year. In 1837 he took up permanent residence in Berlin as a “civil engineer for the gas establishment”. He arranged for the gas works to be expanded several times and, in 1836, the construction of the gas works in Holzmarktstrasse.

Drory was a thrifty founding patriarch who spoke mostly English even in business life. As the progenitor of the Berlin line, he was married to Elizabeth Skinner, with whom he had 17 children.

The Drory family grave grid facility in Berlin-Kreuzberg (2012), here still with honor grave -Markierung

Leonard Drory died of cholera in 1866 at the age of 65 when Berlin was hit by a serious epidemic of the disease. He was buried in his family's hereditary funeral in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The final resting place of Leonard Drory (grave site 212-EB-132) was dedicated as an honorary grave of the state of Berlin from 1990 to 2017 .

All of his eight sons were directors of ICGA gas works. The subsequent directors in Berlin were his sons Leonard George Drory (1823-1896) and Edward Drory (1844-1904). In Austria-Hungary , his son Henry James Drory (1837–1899) worked from Vienna for the ICGA and its local gas works, which had been active here since the 1840s, from 1881 as director.

Web links

Commons : Leonard Drory  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kathrin Chod: Drory, Leonard . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89542-122-7 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
  2. ↑ Torsten Bachmann: Germany's first gas plant was built in the Glockensee in 1826 . ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 1.8 MB) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 13, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.torsten-bachmann.de
  3. ^ W. Leonhart: Hannoversche Histories , p. 262
  4. ↑ Drory, Leonard . German Historical Museum ; Retrieved January 13, 2012
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 231.
  6. ↑ sonderklasse.org , accessed on January 13, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Drory, Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British engineer and gas company contractor
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Colchester , Essex
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1866
Place of death Berlin