Leopold Koenig

Leopold Koenig (born November 25, 1821 in Saint Petersburg , † December 17, 1903 there ) was a German entrepreneur.

Leopold Koenig was the father of the zoologist Alexander Koenig (the founder of the Natural History Museum Alexander Koenig ) and the landowner Carl Koenig , as well as the grandfather of Hertha Koenig .

Villa Hammerschmidt

He did an apprenticeship as a sugar boiler and in 1848 bought his first sugar factory in Saint Petersburg. 15 years later he was already the market leader in Russia . In 1867 he moved with his family to Bonn and bought a villa on Coblenzer Straße (today: Adenauerallee ). In the 1870s he had the villa expanded and remodeled.

Leopold Koenig was very active in the Protestant church community and donated a considerable amount for the new building of the Kreuzkirche on Bonn's Kaiserplatz. From 1868 he was a member of the reading (Bonn) . For health reasons, the Koenig family had to leave Bonn in the mid-1880s and move to Cannes .

In 1881 he acquired the Sharivka Palace in Sharivka in the Kharkov Governorate .

In 1889 he met the industrialist Rudolf Hammerschmidt in St. Petersburg and sold him his villa in Bonn, which he moved into in 1901. In 1950 the Federal Republic of Germany acquired the property and made it the official residence of the Federal President ( Villa Hammerschmidt ).

literature

• Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-416-03180-6 .
• Салтан А.Н. История олигархов. «Кадры, качество, капитал» Леопольда Кёнига [Электронный ресурс]. - Режим доступа к статье:  http://oligarh.org.ua/node/1397  . - Заглавие с экрана. - June 25, 2016.