Wilhelm Krasnapolsky
Wilhelm Krasnapolsky (born May 24, 1834 in Peine , † April 22, 1912 in Bussum , North Holland Province ) was a German tailor , merchant and hotelier . He adopted the middle name Adolph .
Life
Krasnapolsky's grandfather Christian Franz Krasnapolsky came to Peine from Poland in 1804 . He married a tailor's widow and became a member of the tailors' guild after completing his master's degree. One of his sons, Franz Wilhelm Krasnapolsky , married Maria Schwenke , who gave birth to their son Wilhelm Krasnapolsky . He was baptized and confirmed . He followed his father and grandfather and trained as a tailor in Peine .
Entrepreneurs in Amsterdam
In the years of travel he arrived in 1856 to Amsterdam , where he lived with a partner , a business for wool and silk opened. Cosmopolitan and commercially skilled, he came to wealth. He founded trading companies and in 1866 bought a coffee house, which he converted into a modern restaurant and expanded into a hotel . For the world exhibition in 1883 he added a winter garden , which made the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky world famous. He grew exotic plants with which he adorned the grand hotel . It still exists today under his name.
In 1880, Krasnapolsky took over the First Amsterdam Electricity Company . So he could afford it in 1889, on the 40th anniversary of the reign of King Wilhelm III. illuminate the square in front of the Paleis op de Dam with 5,000 light bulbs . In 2001 the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science ( Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap ) declared the building of the former power station a cultural monument ( Rijksmonument ).
After the death of his only son, he retired from the business in 1909. He built himself a villa in Bussum and devoted himself to plant breeding of flowers and exotic fruits.
social commitment
In 1896 Krasnapolsky donated 1000 gold marks for the new construction of the St. Jakobi Church in Peine.
When the city of Peine wanted to reforest the Herzberg , a hill in the north of the city center , into a city forest , the mayor of his hometown asked Julius Meyer (1874–1942) for further help. Krasnapolsky granted it with 30,000 gold marks. Bedridden since the spring of 1912 because of cancer , Krasnapolsky could no longer accept the invitation of the mayor of Pein. When he died shortly before his 78th birthday, he had never seen "his" Herzberg. For their part, grateful, the city of Peine erected a memorial stone . The boulder bears the inscription :
THE MEMORY OF THE HARD-HEARTED FOUNDER AW KRASNAPOLSKY 1912
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary celebration (2012), the Peine District Home Federation unveiled an information board. In love reason a Krasnapolsky lime was planted.
literature
- Michael Utecht: 100 years of Herzberg - 100th anniversary of A. W. Krasnapolsky's death . City of Peine (Ed.), Peine 2010
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung of September 6, 2012
- ↑ Excerpt from the list of the baptized of the Evangelical-Lutheran. Parish of St. Andreas / Hildesheim
- ↑ Confirmation register on April 30, 1848
- ^ History of the Hotel Krasnapolsky Amsterdam
- ↑ The former power station in the register of monuments of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Ralf Holländer (Kreisheimatbund Peine): Krasnapolsky and 30,000 Goldmark , paz-online.de, September 11, 2012
- ↑ Memorial stone in the Peiner Herzberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krasnapolsky, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krasnapolsky, Adolph Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German tailor, merchant and hotelier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torment |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1912 |
| Place of death | Bussum , North Holland Province |