Richard Hartmann
See also: Hartmann
Richard Hartmann (1809 December -16 1878). German industrialist of Alsatian origin. He founded with Chemnitz a company of manufacture of machines which acquired an international reputation well quickly.
Biography
Third wire of Jean Hartmann, mégissier with Barr, and of his wife Madeleine Schwartz, Richard Hartmann made initially a training of taillandier in his birthplace before starting in 1828 its turn of companion for whom it chooses the Germany (perhaps for linguistic reasons). It ends up arriving at Chemnitz in 1832. It was then an important textile center and, if one made come from England the machines, one had created workshops on the spot workshops to repair them.
In 1837, after having obtained the established among and having married the girl of a landlord, it founded his own company which developed quickly: the creation of the Zollverein allowing him to sell easily in all Germany. It passed soon to the locomotive to vapor with as well of success as its company reached in 1870 the manpower of 3.000 workmen, before passing to 5.000 in 1900 after its death. It was the type even of the paternalist employer protesting, requiring its workmen a good behavior and a good morality, but establishing for them, case sick-benefit fund of accidents, pension fund and social housing. Even in prey with difficulties, that its genius could always make momentary, it took care well not to return workmen and would never have imagined what we call of the social plans.
He never forgot his birthplace of which he was an untiring benefactor and bequeathed to his death 20.000 F at the hospital of Barr; in recognition on May 12th 1884 the municipality gave its name to Neue Gasse (New Street) where it had been born. After 1920, believer to show patriotism, one returned to the alley his primitive name, and to Chemnitz even the communist authorities dedicated it to the gémonies after 1945, speaking about gnadenlose Ausbeutung of the Proletariats (shameless exploitation of the proletariat) . Since the fall of the mode it is become again a great man whose city is proud: a street, a stage and a technical training school bear its name. In Barr even there exists again a street Richard-Hartmann in a recent allotment and a plate was affixed on its native house.
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