Hermann Ilgen
Friedrich Hermann Ilgen ( born July 22, 1856 in Wurzen, † April 15, 1940 in Dresden) was a Saxon pharmacist, entrepreneur, sports and art patron.
Life
Ilgen was born on 22 July 1856 in Wurzen in a small middle-class family. After his father's request he should study theology, but under the influence of the mother, he received his father's consent to a pharmacist training or at a pharmacy degree. Ilgen graduated in Erzgebirge a pharmacist teaching, and then three years practice as a pharmacist - mate, before he enrolled in 1878 to study pharmacy and chemistry at the University of Leipzig; among other things, he studied with Hermann Kolbe. Ilgen was a member of the then Pharmaceutical Science Association (later Corps Vandalia Leipzig) in Leipzig. After a very good graduation, he worked from 1880 as a staff pharmacist in Freiberg.
1882 ( and probably not until 1888 ) took Ilgen for the enormous price of 120,000 marks the run-down " Lion Pharmacy " in the Bahnhofstrasse in Kötzschenbroda, which he led after a complete renovation of the building and the rooms until 1891. During this time, Ilgen brought a novel rat and mouse poison on the market, the phosphorus pill that he could successfully sell worldwide, earning next to a large fortune the nickname " Mäusetod ". The purchase price can be explained the fact that already the predecessor of Ilgen had produced the mouse poison in his pharmacy. To increase the " attractiveness for the mice " sent Ilgen its nearby produced in a shed phosphorus pills in wooden crates in which salt meat had been transported before, the smell of which was transferred to the shipping goods.
1883 married the Ilgen from Leipzig Anna Mathilde Steffen, whereby he was related to the high net worth Leipzig Baurat Otto Heinrich Steffen. His wife had valuable land near the present Leipzig Central Station. In the same year Ilgen co-founder of the Savings Bank in Kötzschenbroda, which moved into a building next to his pharmacy.
After the sale of the still existing pharmacy in 1892, 1893 or 1894 Ilgen moved to Dresden, where he real estate transactions in Dresden and Leipzig was dedicated to. Here, too successful, the childless couple used much of his acquired assets to promote and support cultural, social and sporting facilities. Ilgen established several foundations, including the ' Hermann Ilgen Foundation ", and called into existence prices. How could the University of Leipzig from 1932 annually award a " Goethe Medal " and received from a collection a youthful portrait of Goethe and three altarpieces of the painter Hans Hesse, overall, the University should accrue grants of 350,000 Reichsmarks.
Best known for his support of the Dresden Sports essence. He funded the 1923 and 1937 inaugurated named after him Ilgen - arena, now marketed as Glücksgas Stadium Rudolf Harbig Stadium.
1929, the Privy Councilor Hermann Ilgen was made an honorary citizen of his hometown Wurzen. For his 78th birthday, the Leipzig university awarded an honorary senator. 1936, on his 80th birthday, received a street in Radebeul district Kötzschenbroda his name.
Ilgen inhabited from 1899 in the Dresden suburb bladder joke named after him Villa Ilgen. He died in 1940, four years after his wife; both grave is located at Dresden St. John's Cemetery.
The " Hermann Ilgen Foundation " still exists today, although a significant portion of the assets was destroyed in the Second World War. Your foundation's charter was revised in 1993 for the purposes of the founder.
On June 27, 1881 Ilgen has been added to the Masonic Lodge Charlotte at the three carnations in Meiningen; January 5, 1927 he became a member of the Lodge to Golden Apple in Dresden.
Writings
- Hermann Ilgen: My life's work to a friendly reminder ( to the memory of a mother). ( Autobiografie. ) Publisher Eric Gottschalk, Dresden 1937, OCLC 552,017,822th