Abraham Andreae

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Abraham (Brami) Andreae

Abraham Maria Andreae , called Brami , (born November 9, 1819 in Frankfurt am Main , † May 6, 1875 in Buckau ) was a German mechanical engineer.

biography

Abraham Maria Andreae was the son of the Frankfurt merchant Johannes Andreae (1780–1850), called Jean, and of Maximiliane (called Maxe) (1792–1871), whose father was the secret councilor and banker Johann Jakob von Willemer . The paternal grandfather was Christoph Andreae (1736–1789), the grandmother Maria Magdalene Hoppe. The great-great-grandfather on his father's side was Christoph Andreae , his brother the painter Tobias Andreae .

He received his name Abraham (called Brami) in memory of his uncle Abraham (called Brami) v. Who was shot in a duel in 1818. Willemer. In order to alleviate the pain of the father and the stepmother Marianne von Willemer , who was closely related to Brami von Willemer , the siblings of the slain had promised to name the next son born in the family after him. This promise was fulfilled with the birth of Abraham Andreae in 1819. Marianne von Willemer, friend of the poet prince Goethe, also became his godmother.

Brami Andreae married Marianne Henninge (1834–1907) on April 8, 1856, with whom he had six children, four of whom were beyond childhood. His wife was a daughter of the Magdeburg factory owner Jakob Hennige .

Contrary to his father's wishes, he did not enter his profession, but devoted his life to technology. After graduating from the institute in Weinheim, he studied mechanical engineering at the polytechnic institute in Karlsruhe for three years . He then worked practically and went on extensive study trips.

In 1843 he became chief designer of the machine works of the United Hamburg-Magdeburg Steamship Compagnie in Buckau near Magdeburg. At the company known for short as " Maschinenfabrik Buckau " or popularly known as "Alte Bude", Andreae was particularly active in shipbuilding and large mechanical engineering . The company dealt in particular with the production of steamships and locomotives as well as equipment for breweries, beet sugar factories and machines for agriculture. Andreae implemented improvements in all areas.

In 1847 the company employed around 800 people and was the second largest industrial company in Germany after the Borsig works in Berlin.

In the economic crisis of 1848 Brami Andreae left the company and went to North America, Mexico and Cuba for a total of eight years. After a two-year study trip, he worked as an engineer for several years. The focus of his work was the establishment of factories for the sugar industry in Mexico, from 1854 as a civil engineer in Havana in Cuba and in St. Louis in the USA.

In 1856 he was brought back from America at the instigation of the sugar factory owner Jacob Henninge and entrusted as technical director with the management of the Buckau machine factory. Under his technical management and the commercial management of Christian Graff, the company rose again to become a leading company in Germany. Andreae remained head of the plant until his death.

During this time, he fundamentally reformed the company and focused on the construction of large machines. He earned particular merits through simplified construction parts and his commitment to functional design. On the European market, he introduced double and triple effect evaporators and Corliss steam engines , which made the Buckau company flourish in the decades that followed. A hot air machine (1860) designed by Andreae is in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. His eldest son Paul Andreae also used machines from the Magdeburg-Buckau machine factory on his estate in Dudendorf in Mecklenburg to modernize the agricultural processes.

From 1864 he was also committed to the introduction of chain shipping on the Elbe . Probably the first chain ship to be built in Germany was built under his leadership.

Brami Andreae died surprisingly on November 9, 1875 and found his final resting place in the Neustädter Friedhof in Magdeburg on the family grave of the Hennige family.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dagmar von Gersdorf: Marianne von Willemer and Goethe. Story of a love . Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2011 ISBN 3-458-17176-2 , p. 228.
  2. ↑ Horst Conrad: "Tomorrow at 4 am it will be decided". The duel death of Abraham von Willemer and the von Bockum-Dolffs zu Sassendorf family. United Westphalian Aristocratic Archives, Münster 2005, p. 4ff.
  3. ↑ a b Friedrich Klemm:  Andreae, Abraham. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 279 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ United Hamburg-Magdeburg Steamship Company. albert-gieseler.de, accessed on December 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b c d Andreae, Abraham, called Brami in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon
  6. ^ Karl Ehebrecht (arr.): 100 Years Buckau-Wolf - The History of our House from 1838–1938. Buchdruckerei A. Wohlfeld, Magdeburg, 1938 edition, p. 110.
  7. ↑ Heinrich Gerd Dade (ed.): The German agriculture under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Reprint from the Kaiserwerk der Landwirtschaft about Gut Dudendorf. Carl Marhold Verlagbuchhandlung, Halle 1913, p. 5.
  8. ^ Annett Szameitat: Gravestones with history in Magdeburg - The Hennige / Freise family of manufacturers. magdeburger-news.de, March 3, 2019, accessed December 20, 2019.
  9. ^ Karl Ehebrecht (arr.): 100 Years Buckau-Wolf - The History of our House from 1838–1938. Buchdruckerei A. Wohlfeld, Magdeburg, edition 1938, p. 109ff.
personal data
SURNAME Andreae, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreae, Brami (nickname); Andreae, Abraham Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1875
Place of death Buckau