Family Tradition

Carl August Heinz senior (1854 - 1931)

Carl August Heinz was born on 30 May 1854. He is the person whose name the company now has, as he registered it for his glassworks in 1881. When a fire destroyed the almost 250-year-old village glassworks in 1904, Carl August Heinz built a new production site at the lower end of the village where the parent company of HEINZ-GLAS is still located. When he was 77 years old, Carl August Heinz was able to experience his son Ludwig Philipp' purchase of the old glassworks site where the first glassworks in Kleintettau was built. Carl August Heinz died one year later on 28 November 1931.

Ludwig Philipp Heinz (11.03.1877 - 22.05.1968)

The glassworks had to be closed temporarily in 1917 due to World War I.
The company was managed in this critical time by Ludwig Philipp Heinz, who was injured seriously in WW I, but who was saved by a lucky coincidence and a fellow soldier from his hometown (with the last name Heinz!). Because his brother Heinrich had already died before the war, Ludwig Philipp had to face the challenges alone. In the following years, he developed the glassworks into the first semi-automatic operation in the "Tettau Corner".
The good development of the company was then considerably disturbed by World War II. There was a brief mandatory shutdown in 1943. Despite this, the first completely automatic machine for glass working was introduced in 1943.
Ludwig Philipp Heinz was named the first honorary citizen of the municipality of Kleintettau on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1957.

Heinrich Heinz (18.12.1903 – 14.04.1973)

At the end of the 1920s, Heinrich Heinz, the eldest son of Ludwig Philipp Heinz, went to Hamburg for his commercial training, followed by a subsequent period in London.  From this point onward, already existing contacts abroad were significantly extended with his help.  Orders were obtained, which allowed the successful continuation of the company. In 1939/40, the first year of the Second World War, Heinrich and his brother Kurt took over company operations and shared the unenviable task of operating a glass factory through a period in which it was soon almost impossible to obtain raw materials.  After the War and the establishment of new German borders, new sales channels needed to be created, as well as new workers and new raw material suppliers.  This was one of the reasons why a second glass factory was built in Schleiden/Eifel in 1948. As of 1949, packaging glass was manufactured there, initially under very difficult conditions. The far-sighted Heinrich Heinz took over the management and soon achieved impressive results despite all the difficulties. It was he, who in 1954, suggested to his (much) younger brother Adolf, that he ought to start the manufacture of plastic bottles in the main factory in Kleintettau.

Adolf Heinz (14.11.1921 - 05.09.1977)

He was born as the seventh and last child of Ludwig and Auguste Heinz.
After four years of middle school in Kleintettau, he attended high school in Marktbreit. He completed his business apprenticeship at the forwarding company Schenker & Co in Munich. He had barely worked one year in his father's company when he was drafted on 1 January 1941 to fight in the war. After he returned from prisoner of war camp, he studied the business and worked together with his oldest brother Heinrich Heinz (18/12/1903 - 14/04/1973) to run their father's company (three other brothers died young).
Together with many faithful employees, the brothers succeed in starting operation in a branch plant in Schleiden/ Eifel in 1949, the establishment of Heinz Plastics (in 1955) and modern expansion of the parent company in Kleintettau (especially thanks to an IS series machine 1962 and a completely electric glass melt tank 1971).

Carl-August Heinz (04.06.1950)

Carl August Heinz was born on 4 June 1950. After graduating from high school in Uffenheim, he studied business in Nuremberg and received an M.B.A.
He joined the company in 1976, and he already had to assume sole management in 1977 after the much too early death of his father Adolf. He has done a lot since then and expanded the company into a globally active corporate group.
Far-sighted entrepreneurial expertise and targeted investments under Carl-August Heinz contributed to the success of Heinz-Glas und Plastics on the international packaging market.
However, Carl-Aug. Heinz wanted above all to make a contribution to the reunification of Germany, which is the reason why he already became involved in the nearby Thuringian small glassworks in Piesau and purchased it completely in 1991; he has expanded it into a company, which is internationally competitive, since that time.
Personally, Carl-Aug. Heinz works in a marketing study group for improving the site conditions for the Thuringian-Franconian Rennsteig region and founded a non-profit foundation with the goal of promoting education, job training, conservation, environmental protection and protection of animals in his native region.

Jeannette Heinz-Drayton (19.08.1952)

Jeannette Heinz-Drayton was born as the second child of the couple Adolf and Ilse Heinz on 19 August 1952. After attending the local elementary school in Kleintettau and secondary school in Erlangen, she attended schools for hotel management at Tegernsee and in Leysin in Switzerland in 1967/68 to enter the hotel business as manager with foreign language and business skills. In 1972, however, she switched to the foreign sales department at Siemens in Erlangen. She still works at Siemens and in export and has continued her education in IT too at various sites and while holding various positions. She has been a standing member in the company and family advisory boards of HEINZ-GLAS und Plastics Group as well as co-managing director of a few holdings and financial companies of the group since 1990 and contributes in this way to maintaining the corporate group as a family-run company.

Carletta Angelika Heinz (28.02.1984)

Carletta Heinz was born as the daughter of the Gabriele Birkner-Heinz and Carl-August Heinz on 28 February 1984. She received her high school diploma from the Kaspar-Zeuss High School in Kronach in 2004. She has been studying business at Friedrich-Alexander University in Nuremberg since 2005 and expects to graduate in 2011. Carletta is already involved in important decision-making processes of the corporate group today. She plans to follow in her father's footsteps in the future and to manage the HEINZ Group further as a family-run company.

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