Ludwig Heumann

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Ludwig Heumann (born April 1, 1869 in Oberschönau (Arberg) ; † April 26, 1918 in Ansbach ) was a Catholic priest of the diocese of Eichstätt , naturopath and founder of the chemical - pharmaceutical factory Ludwig Heumann & Co., Nuremberg .

Life and work as a pastor

Born in the hamlet of Oberschönau near Arberg in Middle Franconia as the last of seven children of the farmers Josef and Theresia Heumann, he attended the royal grammar school there as a pupil of the Episcopal Boys' College in Eichstätt . After graduating from high school in 1888, he studied philosophy and theology at the Episcopal Lyceum in Eichstätt until 1893 , with the two-year philosophical course also including natural science subjects such as physics , chemistry and botany .

On March 19, 1893, Alumnus Heumann was ordained a priest in Eichstätt Cathedral. At first he worked as a cooperator in Monheim (Swabia) . In March 1894 he switched to the cooperator position in the parish of Ellingen . On June 1, 1895, the bishop transferred him to the Feucht branch of the parish of Altdorf near Nuremberg , where until December 15, 1897 he cared for the population affected by a large forest dieback (1892 to 1896) in an emergency chapel.

In December 1897 he became pastor of the approximately 550 "souls" parish of Elbersroth near Herrieden , which he freed of grievances after a short time and restored to its former flourishing condition. In 1901 he founded a national " Albertus Magnus Association" in Munich to support poor priest students; he remained a great benefactor of the students throughout his life. In order to make room for an extension to the parish church, he moved the cemetery from 1907, which took place in 1914.

Support of the peasant class

Pastor Heumann founded a Raiffeisen association and an egg sales organization in Elbersroth and a cattle recycling company in neighboring Herrieden. In the neighboring town of Birkach , he set up a small model farm to show the farmers how to improve arable farming and meadow culture through fertilization. A cattle scale and a grain cleaning machine in Elbersroth were the result of his initiative.

The "Remedies Pastor"

Pastor Heumann has been involved in the manufacture of medicinal products in the broadest sense since 1904 at the latest. So he first developed a protective agent for large cattle against horseflies and flies in the laundry room of his parsonage, which was marketed under the name "Steinöl" or "Bremsenflucht". Soon he turned to human pharmacy and developed the "PEDI" ointment for the treatment of leg ulcers. Due to the healing success of the ointment and the increasing demand, he had to give up his own production and found a partner in the pharmacist Armin Hirth of the St. Georgs pharmacy in Heidingsfeld near Würzburg . Further developments by Heumann led to the “SORI healing ointment” against lichen and the “Krätzalbe” against scabies . The Heidingsfeld pharmacy could no longer cope with the increasing number of orders, and the pharmacist Paul Frank in Burgbernheim , then the Nürnberger Löwen-Apotheke, which Frank had acquired, took over the sales. The Elbersrother Pfarrergeist, a tincture made from various herbs, spices and diluted ethanol , was also available from the latter . At the end of 1912 or in the spring of 1913, the company "Ludwig Heumann & Co." was founded in Nuremberg at the instigation of the Nuremberg pharmaceutical wholesaler Robert Pfaller. The company was exclusively under the management of Heumann until a partnership agreement was signed between Heumann and Pfaller as partners in 1916. Soon there was a wide range of Heumann's remedies, and the company's sales grew rapidly under Pfaller's management.

Pastor Heumann's sideline activity as a drug manufacturer did not go unchallenged in public and by church authorities; Among other things, they took offense at direct sales to customers and at the company advertising that Pastor Heumann always showed in a cassock . However, he knew how to defend himself with skillful arguments and rejected any allegations. In 1915 Heumann felt compelled to point out that he himself basically did not treat anyone, that is, he did not practice anything, not even by way of written ordinances.

Literary activity

This is broad and ranges from religious (folk) educational treatises to sociological treatises and advice for agriculture to naturopathic advice. Heumann printed some of his fonts himself. He achieved the greatest success with the book "Pastor Heumann's new healing methods" (1915), which under the title "Pastor Heumann's Medicines" had 85 editions and numerous translations by 1934 and as "a clever mixture of medical education and advertising for Heumann's remedies “Can be called. Other works by Heumann were also published several times.

Printing units

  • The prayers and sacrifices imposed by the bishop on the newly consecrated (n.d.)
  • The heroic act of love for the benefit of poor souls (1894)
  • Book of the Souls of the Poor (1898)
  • The end of the world according to the Bible and astronomy (1898)
  • Small thunderstorm booklet, containing the weather blessing and a number of prayers during a thunderstorm, by Dominikus Jos. Faustmann, 2nd edition, edited by Ludwig Heumann (1902)
  • The Hour of Death (1905)
  • Influence of Denomination, Wealth and Employment on Causes of Death (1905)
  • A look into the heavens (popular representation of space; around 1910)
  • How do I increase my income? Easily Executable Advice for Small and Medium-Sized Landowners on Maximizing Yields Based on the Latest Findings in Agricultural Science and Practice (1910)
  • Are open feet curable and can they be healed? (1914)
  • Open feet, so-called children's feet, varicose veins ... and lichen curable! (1914)
  • Old ailments under new treatment. A word of consolation for the sick with bare feet, lichen, stomach and intestinal disorders, gout, rheumatism and hardening of the arteries (1915)
  • Pastor Heumann's new healing methods (1915) / The new healing method (1917)

In addition, he regularly contributed to German and foreign theological journals.

After his death the company "Ludwig Heumann & Co." published:

  • Heumann calendar (annually 1924–1941)
  • Pastor Heumann's book for the healthy and the sick (1926)
  • Advice on Heart Care (1938)
  • Happy People (1938)
  • Trust and progress. Heumann remedies (1959)

The art patron

For years, Pastor Heumann has been working on an artistically designed new building for his parish church of St. Jakobus the Elder, which is in need of renovation and has been without a tower since 1909. Ä. in Elbersroth. He wanted to build the new building at his own expense or with the help of donations he had raised, but did not see the construction work. Pastor Heumann donated the prizes for the competition for warrior flags organized by the Society for Christian Art eV (Munich) in 1915 . He acquired the artistic estate of the Austrian sculptor Michael Rauscher (* 1875, † 1915), who died in World War I , in order to preserve it as a closed collection and make it accessible to the public; In particular, he wanted to keep exhibiting his numerous designs for grave monuments. He supported the erection of artistically designed tombs on the new cemetery in Elbersroth with his own financial means.

Death and aftermath

Pastor Heumann died on April 26, 1918 in Ansbach hospital after a failed cancer operation . He was buried in the new cemetery in Elbersroth. His pastor's position was taken over by his nephew Andreas Lederer, who realized Heumann's church building plan in 1925/26, financed by the Heumann factory in Nuremberg. With Heumann's company proceeds, a little church was built in the Lattenbuch branch in 1935 . The memorial plaque at the entrance to the church in Elbersroth with a relief portrait of Heumann was created by his Munich cousin Karl Ludwig Sand . The pharmaceutical company that bears his name expanded rapidly (factory building in Nuremberg in the 1930s; new factory building in Feucht in 1975) and changed in 1999 to “Heumann Pharma GmbH & Co. Generica KG”, which was acquired by the Pfizer Group in 2003 and Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. by the Indian Torrent Group .

Web links

literature

  • Franz Sales Romstöck: Personnel statistics and bibliography of the Episcopal Lyceum in Eichstätt, Ingolstadt: A. Ganghofer'sche Buchdruck-Officin 1894.
  • Felix Mader: Ludwig Heumann † . In: Die christliche Kunst , 14 (1917/18), issue 9/10 of June 1, 1918, p. 232.
  • Karl Röttel: Pastor Ludwig Heumann (1869–1918). In the S. (Editor): Association of Friends of the Willibald-Gymnasium Eichstätt eV, Christmas letter 1988, Eichstätt 1988, pp. 15–32.
  • Paul Morath: Feucht in old views, part 2, Zaltbommel: Europ. Library 1990, there No. 39 and 40.
  • Margo von Bülow: The history of the chemical-pharmaceutical factory Ludwig Heumann & Co. in the years 1913–1945, Dietikon: Juris Druck + Verlag 1992.
  • Margo von Bülow: Ludwig Heumann (1869–1918). In: Fränkische Lebensbilder , 16 (1996), pp. 189–211.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Röttel, p. 15
  2. ↑ Romstöck, p. 41, no. 727
  3. ↑ Röttel, p. 15; Frank. Life Pictures, p. 189
  4. ↑ Bülow, Geschichte, p. 27
  5. ↑ Morath, o. Pag.
  6. ↑ Bülow, Geschichte, p. 29f.
  7. ↑ Röttel, p. 17
  8. ↑ Franconia. Life pictures, p. 190ff.
  9. ↑ Röttel, p. 17
  10. ^ Bülow, Geschichte, p. 43
  11. ^ Bülow, Geschichte, pp. 68f.
  12. ↑ Franconia. Life pictures, p. 197ff.
  13. ^ Bülow, Geschichte, p. 54
  14. ↑ Röttel, p. 34; Frank. Pictures of Life, p. 196f.
  15. ↑ Röttel, p. 21
  16. ↑ Mader, p. 232
  17. ↑ Röttel, p. 19
  18. ↑ Mader, p. 232
  19. ↑ Röttel, p. 27
  20. ↑ Röttel, p. 19
  21. ↑ Almost 100 years of inexpensive pharmaceuticals. In: heumann.de. Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Heumann, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest, healer, founder of a pharmaceutical company
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberschönau (Arberg)
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1918
Place of death Ansbach