Carl Gotthilf Nestler
Carl Gotthilf Nestler , also mistakenly Carl Gottlob Nestler , (born January 9, 1789 in Neudorf , † February 6, 1864 in Wittigsthal ) was an Erzgebirge hammer owner and innovator who successfully introduced sheet metal rolling in Saxony.
Life
Nestler son was a grain merchant and owner of the Barbican king desire in Neudorf in the Ore Mountains. After his marriage he received an estate in Neudorf from his father-in-law . During the years of the Wars of Liberation , he was able to make great profits by trading grain. As a result, he became wealthy and was able to acquire the hereditary court of the village of Mittweida in 1816 . From there he expanded the grain trade by trading in flax . He sold these raw materials to Weissenfels , Zeitz , Querfurt , Zeulenroda , Naumburg and Pößneck . He and his brother also took over the removal of the iron from the Erlhammer , the Pfeilhammer and the Wittigsthal hammer mill. In 1824 he bought the Wittigsthal hammer mill , which he managed, from the Rittmeister von Einsiedel and left the estate in Mittweida to his brother.
In 1826 he met the goldsmith Daniel Schmidt in the neighboring town of Johanngeorgenstadt , who had two small stands in the vaulted cellar of his house with two small rollers inlaid in them, with which he flattened gold. Nestler then tried to use this principle for rolling sheet metal and to set up a sheet rolling mill. He learned that sheet metal was already being rolled from iron in England and Bavaria. He traveled to Amberg with a carpenter to inspect the sheet metal rolling mill there and to get suggestions for construction. But industrial espionage was noticed and they were denied access to the factory premises. On the way back they stopped at Hammerherrn Rosenbaum in Schönheiderhammer , to whom they told about their plan. A little later Rosenbaum had a sheet metal rolling mill built in Schönheiderhammer. But the hydropower of the Zwickauer Mulde was too weak and the rollers were running too slowly, so that after a few months the stands and rollers had to be sold. Nestler applied for it and was awarded the contract. He had the first functioning sheet rolling mill in Saxony built in the Haberlandmühle below Johanngeorgenstadt am Schwarzwasser . Having gained new wealth, he had a new manor house built in Wittigsthal in a very short time in 1836, which still exists today. In the same year he also bought the Erlhammer, which later became the Erla ironworks . After his son-in-law Eduard Wilhelm Breitfeld joined the business, they founded the successful company Nestler & Breitfeld together and acquired the two combined hammer works from Rittersgrün , briefly the Siegelhof (hammer mill) and in 1884 the arrow hammer in Pöhla .
On the other hand, Nestler's engagement as a companion of the mechanic Friedrich Wilhelm Krutzsch, who had bought the last factory in the Hohneujahrer Poch wash, turned out to be an economic failure. The rifle factory Nestler & Krutzsch was shut down after a short time in 1853 due to enormous losses and the lease agreement with Vereinigt Feld im Fastenberg over the Poch wash was terminated prematurely. The inventory and the rifles still in existence were auctioned off in Johanngeorgenstadt and Leipzig after Krutzsch fled the country.
As a deputy member of the 17th rural electoral district, he belonged to the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament from 1845 to 1848 .
His older brother was the inherited heir as well as land and freight carrier Christian Gottlieb Nestler (1781-1846) in Mittweida near Schwarzenberg.
literature
- Richard Breitfeld: Carl Gottlob Nestler - from the life of an Erzgebirge hammer gentleman . In: Glückauf 50 (1930), Issue 3, pp. 65-69.
- Eckert & Pflug (ed.): The large-scale industry of the Kingdom of Saxony in words and pictures , p. 144ff
- Götz Altmann : Carl Gotthilf Nestler: farmer - cattle and grain trader - farmer - ironworks owner - technician in the first half of the 19th century. In: Götz Altmann / Rainer Gebhardt (ed.): Personalities of the mining industry in the Saxon-Bohemian Ore Mountains. Annaberg-Buchholz, Schneeberg, 2003, pp. 1-14. ISBN 3-930430-61-4
- Götz Altmann: Carl Gotthilf Nestler: farmer - cattle and grain trader - farmer - ironworks owner - technician in the first half of the 19th century. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 59 (2013), Heft 3, pp. 192–199. ISSN 0486-8234
Individual evidence
- ^ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of the Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 121
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nestler, Carl Gotthilf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nestler, Carl Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Erzgebirge hammer gentleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neudorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1864 |
| Place of death | Wittigsthal |