August Heckscher

August Heckscher ( born August 26, 1848 in Hamburg, German Bund, † April 26, 1941 in Mountain Lake, Florida ) was an American industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist of German origin.

Life

Heckscher 1867 emigrated to the United States and began to work in the mining company of his cousin Richard Heckscher. At night, he learned the English language. The two later founded the company Richard Heckscher & Company, which they then sold to the Reading Railroad. August Heckscher then turned to the smelting of zinc and iron. His company merged in 1897 with other companies for the New Jersey Zinc Company, whose general manager he was.

His million fortune, which was built over the years, put Heckscher, among other things in real estate in New York City. From 1919 he dropped the Heckscher Building at the corner of Fifth Avenue / E. 97th Street built by the architectural firm Warren and Wetmore, one of the first skyscrapers of the 1916 was created after the new building code of the city.

In New York, Heckscher Foundation, The Heckscher Foundation for Children affected, including through the establishment of playgrounds south of Manhattan. The biggest playground in Central Park is still the Heckscher Playground today. In East Islip on Long Iceland New York State bought by a donation of philanthropists 1500 acres of land for setting up the Heckscher State Park, which opened in 1929. In today very popular recreation area led the New York Philharmonic since the 1970s on their summer concerts.

Heckscher settled east of New York, in Suffolk County on Long Iceland in Huntington, where he built up the Heckscher Park, in which he, built by him and by him with gifts of works of art gave Heckscher Museum of Art einrichtete.

Heckscher is at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx in New York City buried.

Progeny

  • Antoinette. She married the British aristocrats Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher, the son of Reginald Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher. The couple's daughter, Sylvia, married the last Raja of Sarawak, Charles Vyner Brooke.
  • The third child was the British- American painter Dorothy Brett.
  • Industrialist
  • Entrepreneurs (United States)
  • Emigrants from Germany
  • German
  • Americans
  • Born in 1848
  • Died in 1941
  • Man
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