Louis Anton von Horst

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Louis Anton Horst , from 1899 Freiherr von Horst (born December 16, 1865 in Tuttlingen , Baden-Württemberg , † September 6, 1947 in Erlangen ) was a German-American businessman, inventor and German spy during the First World War .

Life

He was the son of Ernst Paul Horst (* 1823 in Staucha, today part of Stauchitz , Saxony , † 1890 in Brooklyn , USA ), who emigrated to the US in 1850 and 1880 in Manhattan a "Boarding House", a house is open for long-term guests led, and also to New York City emigrated Maria Barbara Manz (* 1834 in Tuttlingen, † 1894 in New York City).

During the American Civil War , the parents lived in Tuttlingen, where Horst was born in 1865. After the family returned, he completed his schooling in New York and in 1880 worked as a retail cashier. Together with his brothers, he later went to California as a hops trader. Louis Anton Horst then moved to London, where he set up the first hop extraction facility with imported American hops .

Residence Festungsstrasse 5, Coburg

In Coburg Horst late 19th century as the largest American left hops dealer down and was on 12 May 1899 by Duke Alfred in the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha nobility - and baron charged. He married Carita Helena Partello, who had studied piano and singing and was born in New York as the daughter of Dwight J. Partello. Carita ran an opera school in Coburg in Villa Festungsstrasse 5 , which was rebuilt in 1906 and expanded in 1909. Louis Anton von Horst had been a citizen of the city since 1901. In 1907 he applied for concessions for automobile and tram connections in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and in the city of Coburg. On August 2nd, he got a tram license. However, the project failed in 1908 due to the terms of the contract.

Horst is said to have been registered in Coburg between 1907 and 1911. On the other hand, he lived in London from 1901 to 1914 , where he was a cinema operator as well as a hop dealer and factory owner. In 1908 he started producing hops extract in England . There he was arrested and interned on suspicion of espionage at the beginning of the First World War in August 1914 . His business activities and friendship with the Irish nationalist Roger Casement are given as background. This was even worth reporting to the New York Times on September 3, 1914. In May 1916 he fell ill and applied for his release to the USA. As a German citizen, however, this was denied to him, especially since he was allegedly receiving adequate care in the German hospital in London-Dalston. In July 1918 he was on the Isle of Man . In March 1919 he was finally expelled from Great Britain as an "undesirable foreigner".

Back in Germany, Louis Anton Horst worked again as a hop trader and entrepreneur. In Oranienburg he set up a hop extraction plant and in 1924 he moved to Berlin. He applied for several patents, including one for hop leaching. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and was classified as a follower in the context of denazification in 1947 . In 1940 Louis Anton Horst moved back to Coburg with his family. In 1947 he died in the Erlangen University Hospital and was buried in the cemetery on Glockenberg in Coburg.

His second wife, Irmgard Freifrau von Horst, 45 years his junior and with whom he had a son and a daughter, took over the management of the Horst Company and expanded the company into the largest producer of hop products. To this end, the first hop extraction plant in West Germany was built in 1949. In 1977 the company headquarters was relocated to Mainburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Census of 1880 in New York (Manhattan); his age is given as 57 years.
  2. ^ A b c d e Renate Reuther: Villas in Coburg. Veste Verlag Roßteuscher, Coburg 2011, pp. 40–43
  3. ↑ Census of 1880 in New York (Manhattan); his age is given as 15 years.
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, page 370, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting. Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 , p. 36, p. 55, p. 196, p. 198, p. 308
  6. ↑ Simone Batian: The tram for Coburg remained a dream. In: Coburger Tageblatt , February 20, 2013, p. 12
  7. ↑ Biography in master list (PDF; 19 kB)
  8. ^ Document from the British National Archives
  9. ^ Document from the British National Archives
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  10. ^ Document from the British National Archives

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SURNAME Horst, Louis Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horst, Louis Anton Freiherr von; Horst, Louis Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, inventor and spy in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuttlingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1947
Place of death gain