Karl Heine

Ernst Carl Erdmann Heine ( born January 10, 1819 in Leipzig, † August 25, 1888 ) was a Saxon landowner, lawyer, businessman and politician ( DFP). He was a deputy in the Parliament of Saxony and in the Reichstag. As an industry pioneer, he shaped the face of the Leipzig West suburbs and Plagwitz.

Life

Karl Heine was born in 1819 as son of native Brunswick businessman and owner of the manor Neuscherbitz, Johann Carl Friedrich Heine, and his wife Christiana Dorothea, nee Reichel, in Leipzig. His grandfather was the Leipzig merchant Traugott Erdmann Reichel. Shortly after his birth Heine was baptized Lutheran in St. Thomas' Church. He learned from 1833 to 1837 at the St. Thomas School at Leipzig under the rectors Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrenfried rust and Johann Gottfried Stallbaum.

He then studied law at the University of Leipzig, where he was a member of the fraternity Corps Saxonia Leipzig from 1838. In addition, he became interested in mathematical and economic contexts. In 1842 he earned a bachelor Juris.

In the year he graduated, he served voluntarily in the communal guard and reached the rank of captain.

It was in 1843 with a thesis ( title: De principiis iuris in usu fluviorum adhibendis ) on the economic use of waterways and their shores according to Saxon state law to the Dr. jur. doctorate. He defended his work in front of Professor Gustav Ludwig Theodor Mare inches ( 1794 to 1873 ). After he settled in Leipzig practiced as a lawyer.

1842 gave him the mother of a general power of attorney for Reichel's Garden (formerly Apel's garden). After the death of his grandfather Karl Heine Reichel bought the shares of the other heirs to the property, was parceled them and cultivate from the mid-19th century gradually with today's inner western suburbs.

In 1854 Heine extended his land holdings out in the community Plagwitz. In 1856 he began in Plagwitz with the construction of the first section of the Weisse Elster with the Saale connecting navigable channel, which now bears his name ( Karl- Heine-Kanal ). With the excavation of the canal construction later Westvorstadt was drained. For the transport of the resulting masses of earth, he used by hand or with horses moving wooden Loren on field train tracks with a track width of 2 1/2 sächs feet ( 798.5 mm). The remains of the track stand out as a technical monument " Alte Linde Auer gravel path " historical monument and the association " Museum Feldbahn Leipzig- Lindenau ( MFLL ) eV " looked after.

To implement its zoning and industrialization plans in Plagwitz Karl Heine founded in 1858 a " Oeconomie ". The following year, 1859 Heine founded in Leipzig together with Otto Steche, brother of the art historian Richard Steche, under the name of Heine & Co. a company for the " distillation of essential oils from native plants ( ... ) as well as for the manufacture of essences for liquor and confectionery industry ". They specialized in the synthetic production of mustard oil.

To connect the western suburbs with the community Plagwitz, he left south parallel to the old road from Leipzig to Lindenau (now the Käthe -Kollwitz -Straße) to create the Plagwitzer road and, against the resistance of the Leipzig Council, the Plagwitzer bridge connecting the to the Leipziger Straße in Plagwitz (now Karl- Heine-Straße ) established.

From 1873 Heine left in Plagwitz based on a siding contract from the Prussian Zeitz station put out a total of 37 industry connections and build three public charging points for firms without siding. The terminals and loading points were tied with 15 industrial and connecting tracks to the station Zeitz. He managed to ensure that the conditions for the resettlement of industrial companies who calculate the direct train connection with cheaper transport costs and thus could produce cheaper.

From 1870 until his death belonged to Karl Heine at the Second Chamber of the Saxon Landtag. It ran from 1869 to 1881 in 23 rural constituency for the Progress Party, until he lost in 1881 against the Social Democrats August Bebel. Then he went to the Conservatives in third urban constituency, last in 1887 against Wilhelm Liebknecht. He worked intensively on the social question, for which he was highly valued by Liebknecht. In 1878 he declined already from the socialist laws of the Reichstag. He was also an advocate of property tax.

In the second term from 1874 to 1877, he worked for the German Progress Party in the 13th Saxon constituency member of parliament. Most members were artisans, merchants, landowners and manufacturers. First, the Social Democrat Johann Jacoby reaches the majority of the votes, took the choice not to. In the second vote, Heine was able to prevail with the votes of the National Liberals and Conservatives against the SPD counterparty Wilhelm Bracke. In 1874, he voted against the vaccination law. In addition, the 1875 adopted Reichsbank law from economic point of view rejected. His nominations in 1878 and 1884 were unsuccessful. He was also a member of the Leipzig city council.

In 1874, he moved into his newly built villa in Neuschleußig (Karl -Heine- Villa, Könneritzstraße 1), where he lived until his death.

In 1876, a development plan in which the Karl Heine belonging, so far from meadows and fields existing northern part of Schleußig ( " Neuschleußig " ) together with the Bernhard Hüffer belonging, also still largely undeveloped Gutsbezirk Schleußig for joint city-like building has been approved, provided with residential had.

On 24 May 1888, Heine, the Leipzig - West Construction Company Ltd, in which he earned his Oeconomie and continued his projects after his death.

Karl Heine was a member of the Masonic Lodge Leipzig Apollo and friend of the Freemason Ferdinand Goetz since 1854. The organization sat down for an amplified expression and freedom of belief.

Shortly before his death he remarked to his formative influence:

" I have sat as a young man at the List 's side and took the picture of the railway sector seen from this man, which he had designed over Germany [ ... ] This is what base my beliefs "

He died on 25 August 1888 at the age of 69 years in Leipzig.

Honors

The city of Leipzig Karl Heine honored in 1897 with a memorial, melted down during the Second World War, but was renewed in 2001. According to him, several streets and a place were named (among Erdmannstraße, 1891 Karl- Heine-Straße, 1904 Karl- Heine-Platz ). In addition, the Karl- Heine canal is named after him in Leipzig, which was originally a project of Heine.

In 2003, a Leipzig Professional school center was named Karl- Heine-Schule (formerly BSZ 3 for metal ). It is located in the Merseburger Straße, in the field of his work.

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