Solomon's heart

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Salomon Herz (born May 15, 1791 in Bernburg (Saale) , Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg ; † July 16, 1865 in Berlin , Prussia ) was a German Jewish merchant and founder of the first oil trading company in Germany.

Life

In 1823, the city administration of Bernburg allowed the merchant Herz to open trade, buy a house and get married in exchange for a protection fee. In the same year his son Wilhelm Herz was born. But heart tightened already in 1823 from Bernburg to Berlin, where he opened a grain wholesaler to his apartment he took in the new Friedrichstrasse 21. He started with cereals and beet oil trade, which he in the same year in Wittenberg on the Elbe an oil mill building and put it into operation. After a fire in 1856, the oil mill was expanded and, above all, technically renewed. In 1865 Salomon Herz passed the oil mill to his son Wilhelm.

The company was the first oil trading company in Germany. Both financially and through its lobbying work, it ensured the completion of the Wittenberg Elbe port in 1835, the connection to the Berlin-Hamburg railroad in 1846 and the construction of the connecting line to Magdeburg in 1851, primarily to improve the sales of its products, of course.

Honors

In 1855 Salomon Herz became a member of the Elders' College of the Berlin merchants.

The city of Koethen granted Salomon Herz honorary citizenship in 1863. He ran an annual seed market there , for the 50th anniversary of this market, Herz donated 1,000 thalers , with which the heart  foundation was established. This contributed significantly to the support of the poor in Koethen.

  • The Werkstrasse to the site of the oil mill was given the name Herzstrasse as early as 1898, but shortly afterwards it was renamed Bad Wilsnacker Strasse.
  • Since May 2007 the redesigned square in front of the historic station building in Wittenberge has been called Salomon-Herz-Platz.
  • Since 2009 in the old oil mill that bears his name HerzBräu -Beer in a brewpub produced.

literature

  • Heinz Muchow: Salomon Herz initiated the industrial revolution in Wittenberge . In: ders .: How the agricultural town of Wittenberge developed into an industrial town . Wittenberge 2001, pp. 10-25.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herz, S .; Merchant . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungsanzeiger für Berlin, Charlottenburg and Umgebung , 1830, I (At the address Königsgraben 16 , the address book shows a grain magazine that may have belonged to the Herz trading company.).
  2. ↑ History of the Wittenberge oil mill .
  3. ^ City of Koethen
personal data
SURNAME Heart, Solomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernburg (Saale) , Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1865
Place of death Berlin , Prussia