Max Helfferich

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Max Helfferich.

Max Karl Julius Helfferich ( Russian Макс Gелферих , born June 18, 1828 in Kapfenburg , † August 11, 1901 in Charkiw ) was a German businessman and machine manufacturer in Charkiw.

Life

Max Karl Julius Helfferich was born on June 18, 1828 in Kapfenburg as the son of the future auditor Christian Helfferich (1797–1871) from Stuttgart and grew up in Stuttgart. At the end of the 1840s he emigrated to Odessa, then Russian . Soon he became a partner in the “Magazin Sadet” company in Kharkov, which was also Russian at the time and is now Kharkiv.

Helfferich recognized that Russian agriculture in particular promised to become a profitable market for machines. Around 1861 he founded the company "Helfferich-Sadet" in Charkiw with Sadet as a partner and first sold machines imported from abroad. Later he founded his own machine factory, "which grew into one of the largest industrial enterprises in Russia and soon supplied the whole of southern Russia with machines". The Helfferich-Sadet company continued to exist after Helfferich's death until the 1917 revolution.

In 1868 Helfferich married the German Josephine Heinrich from Charkiw (1844-1894). There were no children from the marriage. Helfferich became very prosperous and became a benefactor in his old homeland. He gave foundations to the Ludwigsspital, the Karl-Olga-Hospital and the Olgaheilanstalt in Stuttgart and founded the family foundation “Max- und Josphine Helfferich-Stiftung” in 1895 with a capital of 500,000 marks for relatives of the Helfferich family from Kirchheim unter Teck . Max Helfferich was honored for his services by high Prussian and Russian medals and by being awarded the title of royal Württemberg commercial councilor. In 1904, in memory of his charity, Helfferichstrasse in Stuttgart-Nord was named after him.

literature

  • Friedrich Bauser: Genealogy and family tree for the Max and Josephine Helfferich family foundation. Stuttgart: Bonz, 1913.
  • [Max and Josphine Helfferich Foundation]. In: Chronicle of the Kgl. Capital and residence city of Stuttgart, 1900, pages 148–149, 150–151.
  • [Obituary for Max Helfferich]. In: Chronicle of the Kgl. Capital and residence city of Stuttgart, 1902, pages 148–150.
  • Helfferichstrasse. In: Jörg Kurz: Northern history (s). About the dwelling and life of the people in the north of Stuttgart. Stuttgart 2005, pages 120-121.

Web links

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ #Bauser 1913 , page 5, 9. - Christian Helfferich was remuneration commissioner (sales tax collector) until around 1854, and auditor from around 1855.
  2. ↑ From 1847 the family lived in Stuttgart at Sonnenstrasse 5, Bandstrasse 3 and Grabenstrasse 3.
  3. ↑ #Chronics 1902 .
  4. ↑ #Bauser 1913 , page 9.
  5. ↑ 500,000 marks corresponded to around 3.4 million euros. For the conversion of marks into euros see: Deutsche Bundesbank: Purchasing power equivalents of historical amounts in German currencies .
  6. ↑ #Chronics 1900 , #Chronics 1902 .
  7. ↑ #Chronics 1902 .
  8. ↑ #Short 2005 .
personal data
SURNAME Helfferich, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helfferich, Max Karl Julius (full name); Gelferich, Макс
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and machine manufacturer in Kharkiv
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Kapfenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1901
Place of death Kharkiv