A short distance away from the city center, on one of the major thoroughfares of Kharkov, located branch 2nd urban hospital. The building in which it is located, has more than a century - it was built in the early twentieth century with donations of one of the biggest benefactors of the time Kharkov - Maximilian Helferich.
A short distance away from the city center, on one of the major thoroughfares of Kharkov, located branch 2nd urban hospital. The building in which it is located, has more than a century - it was built in the early twentieth century with donations of one of the biggest benefactors of the time Kharkov - Maximilian Helferich.
Former hospital "Women's Aid", and now a branch of the 2nd City hospital is located near the metro station "Advocates of Ukraine."
Maximilian Hristianovich Helfer was born in the Kingdom of Württemberg Rёytlingen (now the state of Baden-Württemberg) in 1828. In 1850, in search of work, he arrives in Kharkiv and entered the service in the then known haberdashery Sad for the post of cashier-accountant. Energetic, hardworking and purposeful Gel'fer pretty quickly changed the scope of business, becoming the main representative of the leading German, English and American companies to sell agricultural machinery.
Products that sell Helfer, often require repair, so in 1878 he opened at the warehouses at the Horse Square (now the area of Advocates of Ukraine) a workshop, and in 1882 - a small iron foundry, which has established the manufacture of simple agricultural machines. The basis of the administrative staff were foreigners, mainly Germans and Britons.
In 1895, Maximilian Helferich organized the joint-stock company Helferich-Sade (the second part of the name by the name of Helferich's wife). Expanding and buying new enterprises, the plant became the leader in the manufacture of agricultural machinery in the south of the Russian Empire, and under Soviet power it became the basis of Soviet industry in Kharkov, known as the Hammer and Sickle Motor-Building Plant in Kharkov.
A successful entrepreneur went down in history not only because of his business acumen. First of all, Maximilian Helferich is one of the most generous Kharkov philanthropists. He actively supported the Evangelical Protestant community, various community and church projects, in 1884 he helped the Society to help and search for labor for needy Germans, in 1891 introduced an annual (1,200 rubles) scholarship for female students of the Voznesenskaya Women's High School, and later - scholarships at the Commercial School and the Institute of Technology. In addition, as an entrepreneur, he tried to mitigate the hard work of workers at industrial enterprises by one of the first in Russia to introduce a pension for senior servicemen and to establish a fund to help workers with insurance elements.
Perhaps, there was no such sphere in Kharkov's charity, in which Maximilian Helferich did not participate as a philanthropist and philanthropist. Among other things, he was one of the directors of the Kharkov branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society, an honorary member of the Kharkov branch of the Russian Red Cross society, and the chairman of a German charity society.
One of his main charitable undertakings was the establishment of the “Women’s Help” hospital, a clinic for the treatment of gynecological diseases and obstetrics, and also schools for which the industrialist bequeathed his fixed capital. Helferich dedicated this project to his wife Josephine, who died in 1894. (It is interesting that she was a Catholic and was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Kharkov, while he remained an ardent protestant).
In early 1901, Maximilian Helferich allocated a plot of land for the construction of a hospital and donated a huge amount of 125 thousand rubles. However, he did not succeed in seeing the built hospital: Helferich died in August of the same 1901. During the years of Soviet power, the name of Gelferikh was erased from the history of the city, but when Ukraine gained independence, the brainchild of the philanthropist returned the old name, but not the wives of the philanthropist, as Maximilian Helferich wanted, but himself.
Maximilian Hristianovich Helfer was born in the Kingdom of Württemberg Rёytlingen (now the state of Baden-Württemberg) in 1828. In 1850, in search of work, he arrives in Kharkiv and entered the service in the then known haberdashery Sad for the post of cashier-accountant. Energetic, hardworking and purposeful Gel'fer pretty quickly changed the scope of business, becoming the main representative of the leading German, English and American companies to sell agricultural machinery.
Products that sell Helfer, often require repair, so in 1878 he opened at the warehouses at the Horse Square (now the area of Advocates of Ukraine) a workshop, and in 1882 - a small iron foundry, which has established the manufacture of simple agricultural machines. The basis of the administrative staff were foreigners, mainly Germans and Britons.
In 1895, Maximilian Helferich organized the joint-stock company Helferich-Sade (the second part of the name by the name of Helferich's wife). Expanding and buying new enterprises, the plant became the leader in the manufacture of agricultural machinery in the south of the Russian Empire, and under Soviet power it became the basis of Soviet industry in Kharkov, known as the Hammer and Sickle Motor-Building Plant in Kharkov.
A successful entrepreneur went down in history not only because of his business acumen. First of all, Maximilian Helferich is one of the most generous Kharkov philanthropists. He actively supported the Evangelical Protestant community, various community and church projects, in 1884 he helped the Society to help and search for labor for needy Germans, in 1891 introduced an annual (1,200 rubles) scholarship for female students of the Voznesenskaya Women's High School, and later - scholarships at the Commercial School and the Institute of Technology. In addition, as an entrepreneur, he tried to mitigate the hard work of workers at industrial enterprises by one of the first in Russia to introduce a pension for senior servicemen and to establish a fund to help workers with insurance elements.
Perhaps, there was no such sphere in Kharkov's charity, in which Maximilian Helferich did not participate as a philanthropist and philanthropist. Among other things, he was one of the directors of the Kharkov branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society, an honorary member of the Kharkov branch of the Russian Red Cross society, and the chairman of a German charity society.
One of his main charitable undertakings was the establishment of the “Women’s Help” hospital, a clinic for the treatment of gynecological diseases and obstetrics, and also schools for which the industrialist bequeathed his fixed capital. Helferich dedicated this project to his wife Josephine, who died in 1894. (It is interesting that she was a Catholic and was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Kharkov, while he remained an ardent protestant).
In early 1901, Maximilian Helferich allocated a plot of land for the construction of a hospital and donated a huge amount of 125 thousand rubles. However, he did not succeed in seeing the built hospital: Helferich died in August of the same 1901. During the years of Soviet power, the name of Gelferikh was erased from the history of the city, but when Ukraine gained independence, the brainchild of the philanthropist returned the old name, but not the wives of the philanthropist, as Maximilian Helferich wanted, but himself.