Carl Hecker

Carl Hecker (also in the spelling Karl Hecker) ( born September 22, 1795 in Elberfeld, † March 17, 1873 in Bonn) was a merchant in Elberfeld.

Life

Carl Hecker's father, Christoph Johann Kaspar Hecker, came from a bourgeois family Hattinger and came in his apprentice years to Elberfeld. He married 1790 Johanna Katharina Schlieper, who came from a merchant family in Elberfeld. With his brother, Peter William Schlieper, 1818 he founded the silk dyeing and printing Schlieper & Hecker, 1826 with the band Gebrüder Bockmühl linked to the new calico brothers Bockmühl, Schlieper & Hecker. Add this company Carl Hecker joined in 1828 as a partner of his father's. Previously married Hecker 1821 Johanna Theodora Wilberg (* 1800), daughter of the pedagogue Johann Friedrich Wilberg.

In addition to his business activities, Hecker, he focused public office. In 1831 he was next field Mann-Simons co-founder of the first Elberfelder Citizens Association and was manager at the Central charitable institution. In January, he was a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Elberfeld and Barmen, elected its President, with 8 of 13 votes, five years later in April 1840. He was thus the "president of the great crisis," which spread the early 1840s in the valley of the Wupper. In these years, Hecker had become consul of the United States and a board member of the Bergisch- Märkischen railway company.

After the Barmer House member Johann Suchard had publicly attacked him in the press because of his political views as representative of the extreme liberalism and accused in this context, abuse of office, Hecker resigned in January 1847 as President and member of the Chamber. He was so struck in his honor, that he drew his conclusions despite a declaration of trust and rejection of the attacks against him.

Deputy council members and city council, he was elected as leader of the liberal left in 1846. Hecker presented in 1847 a motion to send a petition to the county council, in which he demanded a constitution. After the censorship undertook significant deletions at his request, he presented a new request to allow the citizenry to the council meetings. This request was refused, which prompted him to higher political activity whereby he became a leading member of the now established political clubs, who represented the views of the decided liberalism. As the Elberfeld uprising broke out in May 1849, he joined as an alderman at the Security Committee, who was responsible for the leadership of the city. Although Hecker in the uprising took a moderate attitude, he fell of ostracism. On November 5, 1849, he was declared by Royal Decree to be incapable of work for the local council.

Hecker retired in 1851 from the company Gebrüder Bockmühl, Schlieper & Hecker and moved to Bonn, where he died in retirement at the age of 78.