Pedro Jung

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Johann Peter Jung , also: "Pedro Jung", (* June 10, 1808 ; † January 11, 1886 ) was a German entrepreneur, local politician and patron in Hanau .

Life

Pedro Jung initially trained as a cooper and was later able to take over the company "PG Hosse Witwe", with which he rose socially as a tobacco manufacturer and made wealth. Politically, he was a leader in the revolution of 1848 in Hanau. During the revolution, Hanau was - next to the capital Kassel - the second center of the revolution in the Electorate of Hesse . He was part of the delegation that handed Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I the Hanau ultimatum and thus (temporarily) made the revolution in the Electorate a success. He later co-founded the Hanau “Credit Association”, was committed to the construction of the Brothers Grimm National Monument and finally set up a foundation with his wife Auguste , the proceeds of which were used to benefit social and cultural projects in the city of Hanau. The couple also bequeathed their villa with park to the city of Hanau, which later built an orphanage in it. The villa was destroyed in the air raids on Hanau during World War II, and the site was then used from the 1960s to build the Albert Schweitzer Children's Village in Hanau as a successor.

Pedro Jung was buried in the main cemetery in Hanau .

Honors

A street that led past the park and villa is now called “Am Pedro-Jung-Park”.

literature

  • NN: Obituary for the death of Pedro Jung . [Newspaper clipping] 1886. Available in Hanau City Library - Department Hanau / Hessen, signature: I 20 B0591.
  • NN: Pedro Jung . In: Hanauer Anzeiger v. August 19, 1960.
  • W.-A. Nagel-Stiftung, Hanauer Geschichtsverein u. Magistrate of the City of Hanau (Ed.): Buried - but not forgotten. Well-known personalities at Hanau cemeteries. 2008, p. 101.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf.: NN: Obituary for the death of Auguste Jung . [Newspaper clipping] 1899. Available in Hanau City Library - Department Hanau / Hessen, signature: I 20 B0591.
  2. ^ Homepage of the Albert Schweitzer Children's Village in Hanau .
  3. ^ Martin Hoppe: Hanauer street names . Hanau 1991, p. 115 f. ISBN 3-87627-426-5
personal data
SURNAME Young, Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jung, Johann Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Entrepreneurs, local politicians and patrons
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1808
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1886