Heinrich Gotthold Dietel (March 15, 1839 - June 24, 1911) was a German textile industry entrepreneur, with one of the largest contributions to

Sosnowiec Sosnowiec is an industrial city county in the Dąbrowa Basin of southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, which is also part of the Silesian Metropolis municipal association.—— Located in the eastern part of the Upper Silesian Industria ...

development. He was born in

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as a son of Heinrich Gottlob Dietl, owner of spinning mills at Wilkau, and Johann Wilhelmina Merbold. He traveled to the United States to examine the techniques of industrial wool production as well as conducting business. Together with his father and brothers he ran a factory in Wilkau near

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Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

. He also practiced in

Bohemia Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohem ...

and

Württemberg Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart. Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, Würt ...

. In 1877 he began his studies at the

Technical University of Dresden TU Dresden (for german: Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated as TUD and often wrongly translated as "Dresden University of Technology") is a public research university, the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, th ...

. On June 11, 1878 he married Julia Jacob in Leipzig. The same year he arrived in Sosnowiec with his wife as a result of the customs reform carried out a year earlier. On land purchased from Gustav von Kramsty (Pogoń), he immediately proceeded to build the first Polish

spinning mill Spin or spinning most often refers to: * Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thread by twisting fibers together, traditionally by hand spinning * Spin, the rotation of an object around a central axis * Spin (propaganda), an intentionally ...

in Russian ruled Poland. He had five sons: Heinrich Georg, Henryk, Borys, Alfred, Roman and Boguslav. With the enlargement of the family, a new residence, the Dietel Palace, was built from 1890 to 1900. Heinrich Gotthold Dietel died in Sosnowiec, where he was buried in a mausoleum at the Evangelical Cemetery.

Charity activity

* 1882: founding the evangelical cantor's school * 1880: founding evangelical church in Sosnowiec * 1886: foundation of Evangelical church in Sosnowiec-Pogoń * 1887: co-founder of the Church of the Holy Vera, Hope, Loy and the mother of their Sophia * 1889: co-financing the construction of the Alexandria School * 1894: foundation of the

Realschule ''Realschule'' () is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola''), ...

* 1895–1898: foundation of the Realschule * 1901: co-founder of the church of St. Nicholas the Miracle at Sosnowie

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dietel, Heinrich Gotthold 1839 births 1911 deaths Businesspeople from Thuringia People from Greiz