Hermann Ilgen

Friedrich Hermann Ilgen (22 July 1856 in Wurzen - 15 April 1940 in Dresden) was a German pharmacist, businessman and patron of art and sport.

In 1882[1] Ilgen took over the "Lion Pharmacy" in Bahnhofstraße in Kötzschenbroda for the enormous purchase price of 120,000 marks.

To increase the “attractiveness for the mice”, Ilgen shipped his phosphorus pills, which he had produced in a nearby shed, in wooden boxes in which cured meat had previously been transported.

His wife owned valuable property near today's Leipzig Central Station.

At the beginning of the 1930s, Hermann Ilgen was the main sponsor of the renovation of the Wurzen Cathedral.