Richard Heike

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Richard Heike (* 1865 ; † April 23, 1945 in Berlin ) was a Berlin industrialist in the first half of the 20th century.

Life

Richard Heike was a mechanical engineer. He began his professional career in 1893 as a dispatcher for Gustav Hammer & Co., founded in Braunschweig in 1877 "for the purpose of manufacturing machines for the canning and meat industry" , from which the R. Karges & Gustav Hammer & Co. machine works emerged in 1899 . In 1903 the factory director left the board there. He was followed by David Kaempfer.

Butcher machine factory Richard Heike
Postcard depicting the machine works, 1912
Cover sheet of the machine works catalog, around 1915

In the same year Heike founded his engineering factory and boiler shop in Neue Friedrichstrasse 37 in Berlin-Mitte . He specialized in the construction of apparatus for the food industry. Soon afterwards Richard Heike acquired the Scheffel & Schiel enamelling factory , which had been relocated from Mülheim an der Ruhr to Berlin-Hohenschönhausen . Because of the rapidly growing demand, especially for his meat processing machines, he had to expand his factory. In 1910 he acquired a 15,000 m² property between what is now Herrenstrasse and Kaiserstrasse . In 1911 the factory moved to Freienwalder Strasse 17-19 in Alt-Hohenschönhausen near Berlin. The location was conveniently chosen near the municipal cattle and slaughterhouse in neighboring Lichtenberg. In the same year, the Villa Heike was built there as an administration building. His manufacturing and storage rooms at Genslerstrasse 88 , built between 1919 and 1922, were leased in 1924 by Allgemeine Glas-Industrie AG . This industrial site was sold in 1938 and the National Socialist People's Welfare set up a two-story brick building with a large kitchen there. In May 1945, the Soviet NKVD set up special camp No. 3 on the site (today: Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial ).

Richard Heike also employed around 100 Polish and Soviet forced laborers in his factories who, among other things, produced rifle butts. In November 1940 he had barracks built for them on the property at Genslerstrasse 66.

On April 23, 1945, the day after the district was conquered, soldiers of the Red Army shot and killed Richard Heike, his housekeeper Gertrud Häußler and his friend Arthur Minke in front of the Heike Villa.

Richard Heike with sons Rolff (center) and Richard jun. (right), around 1915

Sons

His first born son, the engineer and junior boss of the company, Richard Heike jun. (* 1903 - July 7, 1947) was arrested by the NKVD and deported on February 7, 1947 from special camp No. 1 Mühlberg to the Soviet Union, where he died in camp 7503/11 Anzero-Sudschensk .

His second-born son Rolff (born April 23, 1908) received his doctorate from the TH Berlin in 1935 with a thesis on the subject of investigations into the cutting process of machine cutting of bacon into cubes of any size . He later initiated a decade-long equalization procedure for the Heike family because of the lost family property.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Dettmer: From the kettle to the ice machine. (PDF) Berlin-Brandenburg Economic Archive, accessed on February 17, 2019 .
  2. ^ Richard Bettgenhäuser: The industries of the Duchy of Braunschweig. I. part. Braunschweig 1899, p. 154 ff.
  3. ↑ Maschinenfabriken R. Karges & Gustav Hammer & Co. In: Die Werkzeugmaschine 7 (1903), p. 270.
  4. ↑ Hohenschönhausen. In: Ceramic review. Trade journal for the porcelain, stoneware, earthenware, glass and enamel industries. Vol. 10 (1911), p. 208.
  5. ^ Peter Erler : Soviet secret service structures in the industrial area Berlin-Hohenschönhausen (May 1945 to spring 1951). Published by the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Foundation . Berlin 2005, p. 9. ISBN 3-89773-506-7
  6. ↑ Johannes Habermehl: What the Stasi hoarded seven kilometers of Nazi files for. Welt, September 23, 2018.
  7. ^ Peter Erler: Soviet secret service structures in the industrial area Berlin-Hohenschönhausen (May 1945 to spring 1951). Published by the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Foundation. Berlin 2005, p. 14.
  8. ↑ Peter Erler: The Soviet Special Camp No. 3 in Hohenschönhausen (May 1945 - October 1946). Horch and Guck H. 1 (1995), p. 37 ff. ( [1] digitized version)
  9. ↑ Peter Erler , Thomas Friedrich: The Soviet Special Camp No. 3 in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen , Biographical Research and Social History e. V., Berlin 1995, p. 19 f.
  10. ^ Peter Erler: Soviet secret service structures in the industrial area Berlin-Hohenschönhausen (May 1945 to spring 1951). Published by the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Foundation. Berlin 2005, p. 29.
  11. ^ Ines Meinicke: The machine factory Richard Heike. In: Hohenschönhauser Lokalblatt , No. 21 (February 1993).
  12. ^ Walter Püschel : Walks in Hohenschönhausen. Haude and Spener, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-7759-0398-4 , p. 56.
  13. ↑ No. 109. In: Günter Polster, Herbert Hecht: "We were already half Russians ..." Deported and survived in the GULAG . 1998, booklet to the eponymous film by Dirk Jungnickel , p. 50.
  14. ↑ Rolff Heike: Investigations of the cutting process in the machine cutting of bacon into cubes of any size (including dissertation from 1935); Triltsch & Huther, Berlin 1936.
  15. ^ Finding aids online on Alwin Caesar Hardtke in the archive of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Heike, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Berlin industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH 1865
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1945
Place of death Berlin