Leonhard Heyl

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Leonhard Heyl

Leonhard Heyl (* 1814 in Worms ; † 1877 there ) was a German entrepreneur and politician .

Life

After attending high school , Heyl worked as a tobacco merchant and as a timber dealer. In 1848/49 he was a member of the board of directors of the liberal - constitutional citizens' association in Worms, which supported Heinrich von Gagern's policy.

After the death of his father in 1854, Heyl used the inherited fortune in 1856 to found the Wollgarn-Spinnerei Worms AG , which already employed 289 workers in 1857. Another 188 workers were in the tobacco factory Leonhard Heyl & Comp. employed. Heyl was president of the Worms Chamber of Commerce from 1856 to 1875, and in 1857 he was elected to the board of the casino company, the most important civil association in Worms at the time.

Grand Duke Ludwig III. von Hessen and bei Rhein appointed Heyl in 1859 as a member for life in the I. Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hessen . In 1863 Heyl was appointed to the Council of Commerce by the Grand Duke , and in 1871 he was the first industrialist in the Grand Duchy of Hesse to become a Privy Councilor of Commerce.

Heyl's fortune was around 750,000 marks when he died in 1877 . He was buried in the city ​​cemetery and later reburied in the Heyl family cemetery at the Gottliebenkapelle in Herrnsheim .

literature

  • Gerold Bönnen : Factory owner and trader, politician and consul: Leonhard Heyl II. (1814–1877), his social rise and the early days of Worms . In: The von Heyl industrial family in Worms . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010. ISBN 978-3-88462-304-6 , pp. 313–338.
  • Gerold Bönnen: Preparing the way for descendants . In: Wormser Zeitung . No. 245 (2010) , October 21, 2010, p. 12 ( wormser-zeitung.de [accessed on October 21, 2010]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margit Rinker-Olbrisch: Data on the history of the city of Worms. (PDF; 537 kB) Worms City Archives, accessed on October 21, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Heyl, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH 1877
Place of death Worms