Paul Hessemer

Paul Hessemer (born December 6, 1853 in Frankfurt am Main , † November 8, 1944 in Bensheim ) was a German engineer .

Life

Paul Hessemer, born under the real name Franz Carl Hessemer , was the son of Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer and Sophie geb. Pile. He studied mechanical engineering in Karlsruhe and was an engineer and later director of the Süddeutsche Wasserwerke in Frankfurt AG . In 1930 he was elected to the supervisory board.

Motivated by his aunt Luise Hessemer, who founded the first Rüsselsheim kindergarten , Paul Hessemer was also committed to upbringing and education. In 1896 he initiated the establishment of a private school in Rüsselsheim. The school was initially housed in the Hessemer house. The community took over the school in 1897 and converted it into the "Higher Citizens School". The school's first board of trustees included Hessemer and the mayor of the city, Jakob Sittmann. It later became the Immanuel Kant School .

A street in Rüsselsheim is named after him. He made also as genealogists a name.

literature

• Shining role models , 2016, p. 11
• Wasser und Gas , Volume 20, 1930, p. 96
• 100 years of the Immanuel Kant School 1896–1996 . Festschrift. Rüsselsheim 1996, p. 32.
• Paul Heßemer founded the community school in Rüsselsheim . Die liebe Heimat, 21st row, Rüsselsheim 1949, pp. 10–12.
• His father Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer in Stadtlexikon Darmstadt and in Hessian biography