Heinrich Dietz

His father was August Friedrich Dietz, a locksmith master and his mother Caroline Maria née Geschke.

[2] Heinrich Dietz's subsistence came from the small locksmith's workshop, which became later a hardware store at Nowy Rynek in downtown.

As a deeply Prussian patriot, H. Dietz participated to the initiative to build a monument for William I, the German Emperor who died on 9 March 1888.

[4] The funding group mainly consisted of entrepreneurs, officials and landowners, such as Lewin Louis Aronsohn, Hermann Franke, Ludwig Kolwitz or Georg Werckmeister.

In 1892, he retired from the business and became a Rentier (property owner) [fr]: he sold his shop to Paul Eckert, a merchant from Bydgoszcz.

[5] The prosperous development of the thriving firm made him a very wealthy man: as such, after his demise in 1901, the assets bequeathed in his will were estimated at 2 million Marks.

From 1894 to 1898, Dietz was a member of the Prussian parliament in Berlin, representing the Wyrzysk-Bromberg district with the support of the National Liberal Party.

In the end, the overall capital donated to the city for the future Henryk Dietz Foundation exceeded 438 000 German gold marks.