Arthur Koppel

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Arthur Koppel

Arthur Koppel (* 14. March 1851 in Dresden , † 12. May 1908 ) was a German businessman and engineering - entrepreneurs as co-founder of the company Orenstein & Koppel and founder of the company Arthur Koppel & Co.

Life

Arthur Koppel was a brother of the banker Leopold Koppel and initially worked as an authorized signatory in the Berlin iron trading company GE Dellschau . On April 1, 1876, together with Benno Orenstein , he founded the Orenstein & Koppel company (initially as a trading company for light rail equipment), in which he invested 15,000 marks . As a result of different characters, the partners separated by mutual agreement in 1885.

When separating, it was agreed that Orenstein under the old company should be limited to the domestic market and Koppel under the new company Arthur Koppel to the foreign market for a period of five years . By 1897, the track systems offered by Koppel z. B. proven in the management of sugar and coffee plantations and in the cultivation of as yet undeveloped areas in all parts of the world. The company built the Swakopmund – Tsumeb ( Otavibahn ) and Ferrocarriles for the Yucatán to transport ore for the German-British Otavi Mining and Railway Company (OMEG), which was founded in Berlin in 1901 . In 1905, Koppel converted his company into a stock corporation , at which time there were branches or branches in Bochum , Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Leipzig , Munich and Schwerin .

In 1903 Arthur Koppel joined the Society of Friends .

Koppel subsidiary factory in Pennsylvania

In 1905 Koppel also expanded into the USA . He cooperated with the American engineer H. Alfred Ellis (* 1871 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; † 1909), on whose initiative he acquired 558 hectares of land over the Beaver River in Beaver County (Pennsylvania) in 1906 and built a factory there. The village of Koppel , which emerged in Beaver County around 1910 (with around 850 inhabitants today) is named after him.

tomb

Koppel was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

His company merged with Orenstein & Koppel AG in 1909 to form Orenstein & Koppel - Arthur Koppel AG . By 1912 there were eight factories in Europe and offices in Philadelphia, Chicago, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Java, China, and South Africa. In 1920 the company was shortened to Orenstein & Koppel AG .

After the USA entered the First World War in 1917, Orenstein - Arthur Koppel Comp. and its subsidiaries in Pennsylvania were confiscated as enemy property and publicly auctioned off in 1918, while the senior German employees were interned . The new owner was a rescue company , presumably founded by US business partners , which incorporated the renowned name Koppel into its company: Koppel Industrial Car & Equipment Co.

literature

  • The Iron Trade Review , Volume 42 (1908). (Obituary)

Web links

Commons : O&K Founders  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Other sources

  • Arthur Koppel Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin NW 7, Dorotheenstrasse 45. 1906.
  • Transport of sugar cane. Cuba. Arthur Koppel. Transportable and fixed railways. Portable and permanent Railways. (Narrow-gauge railway)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Henning Zabel:  Orenstein, Benno. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 587 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Hubert Joly (ed.): Technical information book for the year 1906. KF Koehler, Leipzig 1905, p. 533 (and more often).
  3. ↑ The Story of Koppel ( Memento from July 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/john-w-john-woolf-jordan/genealogical-and-personal-history-of-beaver-county-pennsylvania-volume-2-dro/page-52 -genealogical-and-personal-history-of-beaver-county-pennsylvania-volume-2-dro.shtml
  5. ↑ http://www.knerger.de/html/koppelarunternehmer_47.html
  6. ↑ http://www.jewish-cemetery-weissensee.org/sites/Grabstaetten33-47.htm
  7. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1126&dat=19180705&id=W3xRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HmgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5325,775011
  8. ↑ US Committee on finance (Ed.): Return of Alien Property. HR 7201. 1928, p. 116.
  9. ↑ http://gateway-bayern.de/BV020277683
personal data
SURNAME Koppel, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and mechanical engineering entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1908