Heinrich Salzmann (manufacturer)

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Heinrich Salzmann

Heinrich Salzmann (born February 3, 1851 in Spangenberg , † November 3, 1915 in Kassel ) was a German entrepreneur . He was a co-founder of the company Salzmann & Comp. and builder of the garden city of Salzmannshausen near Kassel. He donated the Liebenbach Monument in his home town of Spangenberg (1902) and was made an honorary citizen .

Life

Youth and parents

Heinrich Salzmann was the second child of Johann Georg Salzmann (1821–1895) and Anna Martha Kretsch. The father was mayor and farmer in Spangenberg. He ran a trade in yarns and woven goods in Melsungen . From this Georg Salzmann developed a small manufacture with hand looms. The company was called Salzmann & Behrens .

After graduating from secondary school in Kassel, Heinrich Salzmann did his military service as a one-year volunteer in Cologne. In his time off duty he sold cloths for his father there and began to deal with mechanical weaving. After completing a commercial apprenticeship with Sigmund Aschrott in Kassel , he joined Salzmann & Behrens as his father's deputy on November 1, 1876 , but separated from Behrens in 1884 and from then on traded under the name of Salzmann & Comp. His father joined his company as a silent partner , with a shop in Kassel and the weaving mill in Melsungen (Zilsche Mühle), initially equipped with 20 mechanical looms.

The manufacturer

In the 1890s, Salzmann leased another weaving mill with 160 looms in Friedland, Silesia . In 1891 he built an extensive new building in Bettenhausen near Kassel, initially with 60 looms, but also extensive rooms for dyeing , finishing and impregnation . At the same time he also built a weaving mill in Szeged (Hungary). In 1900 he expanded the factory in Bettenhausen to an area of ​​8000 m² with a new building of 22 sheds, each 90 m long. Parts of this building complex are now home to the Salzmann culture factory . As early as 1906 he had to expand the factory in Bettenhausen again and housed the winding, twisting, sewing and tent construction department in an extensive new building measuring 80 m in length, 25 m in depth and 8,000 m² of work space. In 1906 he bought the Behren'sche weaving mill in Einbeck and in 1907 he built a new large factory in Oederan in Saxony. In 1913 he acquired a weaving mill in Starkenbach ( Jilemnice ) in the Czech Republic, as well as the bankrupt Otto Miram match factory in Bettenhausen, which he used for his own purposes. During the First World War , the need for heavy textiles for tents and boats skyrocketed. At times the company employed more than 5,000 workers in Bettenhausen alone.

Grave of the Salzmann family in the main cemetery in Kassel

In November 1915, Salzmann suffered a heart attack on the daily tram ride to work and died.

Significance for industrial architecture

The buildings erected by Salzmann in 1905 and 1912–13 on the site of the Salzmann Kassel textile company on Sandershäuser Strasse in Kassel-Bettenhausen are listed as a historically significant ensemble. They pointed the way for further industrial buildings in other places.

literature

  • Salzmann, yesterday-today-tomorrow. Kassel 1999.
  • Garden city of Salzmannhausen, Kassel. In: The Architect , Issue # / 1982.
  • Fifty years of housing care by Salzmann & Comp. to Kassel. Published on the occasion of the 50th business anniversary on November 1, 1926. Frankfurt am Main 1926.
  • Carl Eckelmann: Salzmann & Comp., Mech. Canvas, drill and linen weaving 1876–1926. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of Salzmann & Comp. Kassel 1926.
  • Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of Salzmann & Comp. Kassel 1951.
  • Erich Welkow: Salzmann & Comp. Mechanical weaving. Yarn and fabric. A walk through the mechanical weaving mill Salzmann & Comp. Kassel around 1935.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Buhre: Festschrift 675 years of the city of Spangenberg. 1984.
  2. ^ Salzmann, Gestern-heute-Morgen, Kassel 1999
  3. ↑ a b Robert Beichhold: List of ancestors Heinrich Salzmann. Kassel 1929.
  4. ↑ Tour of the former Salzmann factory - hna.de, June 30, 2018
  5. ^ The Kassel industrial monument Salzmann & Comp. and its significance for the history of architecture in: Hessische Heimat vol. 64 2014, issue 3, pp. 34–38
personal data
SURNAME Salzmann, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Spangenberg
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1915
Place of death kassel