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Benno Schilde (1849–1911)

Benno Schilde (born April 6, 1849 in Rochlitz ; † October 22, 1911 in Hersfeld ) was the founder of a company that was one of the first in Germany to manufacture equipment for industrial drying .

Life

After completing his apprenticeship as a machine fitter, wandering around and working as a journeyman at the Union machine tool factory , Benno Schilde registered as a mechanical engineer in the Hersfeld trade register as a 25-year-old in 1874.

In 1874 he married Wilhelmine Demme, who worked in his company. The marriage had six children.

After difficult early years, he achieved the rise to factory owner through constant striving. Benno Schilde's personality was shaped by craftsmanship, innovative thinking and ingenuity. In 1885 he called his company with twenty employees "Benno Schilde - machine factory and apparatus construction company, Hersfeld". In 1900 the eldest son Paul Schilde joined the company. In the years 1904 (170 employees) to 1908 (262 employees) the factory and office buildings, which are now listed , were built. With around 200 employees, annual sales approached the two million mark. His economic vision recognized the prospect of specializing in ventilation and heating technology products such as fans and drying systems, which later were among the top products in the industry.

Benno Schilde's gravestone

Benno Schilde left behind a life's work that later developed as Schilde AG , Bad Hersfeld, into a globally operating company in the field of drying technology. The street in which Schilde founded his company was named after him in 1935 (see list of streets and squares in Bad Hersfeld ).

On 30 September 2011, the experience and participation exhibition was wordy opened in Bad Hersfeld in the historic and meticulously restored shields Hall.

In order to upgrade the inner-city Schilde area, the former company property was designated as a special area Schilde Park . Since its completion, the re-exposed Geis has been running through an extensive green area. An event hall and a two-storey car park were also built. The Benno Schilde Park was opened to the public on October 24, 2011.

literature

  • Emma Mann: Benno Schilde's life and work , Mein Heimatland, supplement to the Hersfelder Zeitung, volume 12, 1936.
  • Wilhelm Neuhaus: Benno Schilde, machine factory and apparatus construction, Hersfeld , Hersfelder Jahrbuch 1914.
  • 125 years of Benno Schilde / Babcock-BSH (1874–1999), leaflet from the Benno Schilde / Babcock-BSH Company History Working Group, August-Gottlieb-Strasse 5, Bad Hersfeld.
  • Gudrun Banach: family records
  • Ernst-Wolfram Schmidt: Benno Schilde Maschinenbau AG Hersfeld - The company before, during and after World War II , Hersfelder Geschichtsblätter Vol. 6/2013, Hrsg. Hersfelder Geschichtsverein eV

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the industrial site to the cultural center ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at wortreich.bad-hersfeld.de, accessed on October 6, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wortreich.bad-hersfeld.de
  2. ↑ Development plan Schilde-Park (PDF, 849 kB). Development plan for the city of Bad Hersfeld from July 13, 2012. Online at cms.bad-hersfeld.de, accessed on October 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ HZ Schönholtz: The first areas in Schilde-Park are about to be completed . Photo gallery for the redesign of the Schilde Park. Online at hna.de from September 1, 2011, accessed on October 6, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Shields, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochlitz , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1911
Place of death Hersfeld