Otto Steche

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Otto Steche (born June 21, 1834 , † June 1, 1908 ) was a German industrialist , a manufacturer of essential oils and artificial fragrances.

Together with the Leipzig politician, landlord and industrial pioneer Carl Heine, Steche was the co-founder and co-owner of Heine & Co. , a Leipzig company for the "distillation of essential oils from native plants (...) and for the production of essences for the spirits and confectionery industry" . They specialized in the synthetic production of mustard oil .

family

Steche was a son of the Leipzig lawyer Albert Steche and his wife Lidy , nee. Angermann. This was a well-known concert singer, Leipzig Salonnière and Franz Liszt -Freundin. Steche's brother was the art historian Richard Steche .

Steche married Johanna, née habenicht. Her children include the doctor and zoologist Otto Hermann Steche and the entrepreneur Albert Steche . A son-in-law was the church historian Friedrich Loofs .

Stinging family grave

According to the Dresden address book and suburbs from 1901, Steche was the owner of the Villa Obere Bergstrasse 56 in Niederlößnitz ; for this purpose a partner and a gardener were named. Steche was buried in the closest cemetery in Radebeul-West .

literature

Web links

Commons : Grabmal Otto Steche  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Heine & Co. AG, factories of essential oils and fragrances, Leipzig ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archiv.sachsen.de
  2. ^ Address book of Dresden with suburbs (1901), p. 389.