Fritz Henkel

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Friedrich ("Fritz") Karl Henkel (* March 20, 1848 in Vöhl; † March 1, 1930 in Rengsdorf) was a German entrepreneur and founder of the Henkel Group. Fritz Henkel was born as the fifth child of his parents, the teacher Johann Jost Henkel (1809-1874) from Wallau an der Lahn and his wife Johanette Philippine (1807-1881), born Jüngst. At the age of seventeen, he moved to Elberfeld, where he began an apprenticeship at the Gessert brothers paint and varnish factory. After finishing his apprenticeship he worked his way up to become the company's procurator (authorized agent). In 1874, at the age of 26, Henkel became a partner in the chemicals and paints wholesaler "Henkel und Strebel". On 26 September 1876, he founded the detergent factory "Henkel & Cie" in Aachen together with the owners of the Rheinische Wasserglasfabrik "Scheffen und Dicker". After Scheffen and Dicker left the company, Henkel took sole responsibility. Two years after its foundation, he moved the companies headquarters to Düsseldorf, where he rented an empty soap factory. In 1880, construction work finally began on a new company building in Düsseldorf-Flingern. Under his management the company achieved a turnover of over one million marks in 1899.