Henrich Friedrich Theodor Ernst Grillo (20 December 1825,
Essen – 16 April 1888,
Düsseldorf-Grafenberg)
was a prominent
industrialist in the
Ruhr area of Germany, particularly in
Essen and
Gelsenkirchen.
Born the son of an Essen merchant, into a Protestant family of Italian origin (his ancestors came from
Valtellina
Valtellina or the Valtelline (occasionally spelled as two words in English: Val Telline; rm, Vuclina (); lmo, Valtelina or ; german: Veltlin; it, Valtellina) is a valley in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, bordering Switzerland. Toda ...
, from which they fled due to religious persecutions), he took over his father's enterprise and expanded the range of trade, becoming an influential businessman. Grillo was a board member and founder of several mining companies, including the
Schalker Eisenhütte (
ironworks) in 1872.
Friedrich Grillo and, after his death, his widow Wilhelmine Grillo donated the property and two thirds of the construction costs of the
Grillo-Theater which opened in Essen in 1892.
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1825 births
1888 deaths
Businesspeople from Essen
German industrialists
German mining businesspeople
German company founders
19th-century German businesspeople
German people of Italian descent