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Thank God Jacobi
Historical illustration of the St. Antony Hut
House of the Antony Hut

Gottlob Julius Jacobi (born December 28, 1770 in Winningen ; † January 25, 1823 in Sterkrade ) was a German entrepreneur and co-founder of the later Gutehoffnungshütte group.

Life

At the Sayner Hütte near Koblenz , managed by his father Heinrich Daniel Jacobi , Gottlob Jacobi gained his first knowledge of iron smelting and deepened this during his apprenticeship and traveling years in England. Father Jacobi was in the service of the Trier Elector and Archbishop Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony , whose sister Maria Kunigunde was in turn abbess in Essen and was also interested in iron smelting. When she was looking for a manager for the Neu-Essen ironworks she had founded around 1790 , she used this connection and brought Gottlob Jacobi to the Emscher .

Two more ironworks were already in operation in the immediate vicinity of "Neu-Essen": The St.-Antony-Hütte (since 1758), which was near Osterfeld in the area of Vest Recklinghausen in the Electorate of Cologne , and the "Gute Hoffnung" ( since 1782) in Sterkrade , which belonged to the Duchy of Kleve and thus to Prussia . From 1793 there was a lengthy and sometimes violent legal dispute between Maria Kunigunde and Eberhard Pfandhöfer, the leaseholder of the "Good Hope", who both claimed the St. Antony hut. After Pfandhöfer finally moved to Holland in 1797, completely indebted , Jacobi finally took over the management of St. Antony, moved his residence there and fundamentally modernized the plant. In cooperation with the trading house of the Haniel brothers , he also took care of the sale of his products along the Rhine and to Holland. In gratitude for his successes, the princess Abbess Jacobi contributed a quarter in both huts in 1799.

In the following year he married Sophia Haniel, a sister of his business partners Franz and Gerhard Haniel . When Maria Kunigunda lost interest in her ironworks after the abolition of the Essen imperial monastery, Jacobi won his brothers-in-law as buyers for the abbess's shares in 1805. At the same time, another brother-in-law of the Haniels, Heinrich Arnold Huyssen , acquired the “Gute Hoffnung” hut, which Helene Amalie Krupp had owned since Pfandhöfer's escape .

1808, the three cottages were eventually in the hut Jacobi, Haniel & Huyssen (JHH) combined, which later (1873) Gutehoffnungshütte Group emerged. In the partnership agreement, Jacobi was also given the management of all three huts.

Jacobi died at the age of 53 in the residential building of the St.-Antony-Hütte, which is now part of the Rheinisches Industriemuseum . Wilhelm Lueg was appointed as his successor as director of the YHH , who had once started as a tutor at Jacobi and later had been a hut inspector.

progeny

Jacob's marriage to Johanna Sophia Haniel resulted in seven children, five of whom reached adulthood. Son August (1801–1842) also worked as a smelter inspector at JHH until his untimely death. His son Hugo headed the Sterkrad mechanical engineering department and in 1873 became a board member of Gutehoffnungshütte. Jacobi's daughter Clementine (1808–1847) married the English shipbuilding engineer Nicolas Oliver Harvey in 1830 , who also worked for the JHH. Son Johann Ernst Jacobi (born April 1, 1814 in Sterkrade; † May 31, 1867 in Meißen) was co-owner of the iron foundry and mechanical engineering company in Meißen , which manufactured machines for ceramics, clay and brick factories. His daughter Laura (born September 7, 1847, Meissen, † 20 June 1913 in Dusseldorf) married in 1872 Heinrich Lueg .

Another grandson of Gottlob Jacobi is the Indologist Hermann Jacobi .

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personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, thank God
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobi, Gottlob Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Winningen
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1823
Place of death Sterkrade