Adolf Bleichert

The German engineer and entrepreneur Adolf Bleichert (born May 31, 1845 in Dessau ; † July 29, 1901 in Davos ) was a pioneer of cable car construction and founder of Adolf Bleichert & Co., factory for cable cars , Leipzig-Gohlis , which later became the world's largest Cable car factory.

Life

Adolf Bleichert was born as the second child of Gohlis miller August Bleichert and his wife Wilhelmine Henriette and grew up in Gohlis , which is now part of Leipzig . He studied at the Royal Trade Institute , a forerunner of the Technical University of Berlin . After initial positions at a company specializing in mill construction in Bitterfeld and a machine factory and iron foundry in Schkeuditz , he and his college friend Theodor Otto founded the engineering office for cable cars , the first success of which was the construction of a material cable car inTeutschenthal was. Soon afterwards they set up a material cable car for the Sayner hut of the Krupp company . Otto separated from Bleichert in 1876 and worked with the Siegen cable car pioneer Julius Pohlig , who designed cable cars for use in transporting coal and ore in mines. Bleichert then founded the Adolf Bleichert & Co., factory for cable cars, Leipzig-Gohlis with his brother-in-law, the businessman Peter Heinrich Piel, with which he developed the basics for the construction of cable cars and successfully put them into practice. By 1890 the company had built well over 600 cable cars.

Adolf Bleichert died at the age of 56 during a spa stay in Davos. He was buried in the Leipzig-Gohlis cemetery. His company was successfully continued by his sons Max and Paul , who were raised to hereditary nobility in 1918 .

monument

The sculptor Friedrich Walter Kunze created the Adolf Bleichert monument, which was unveiled in Leipzig-Gohlis in 1908.

Inscription: "Without diligence, no gain"

Grave of Adolf Bleichert, Leipzig (1845–1901)

literature

P. von Bleichert: Bleichert cable cars . Kindle Digital Press, 2013
G. Dieterich: The invention of the cable cars . Hermann Zieger Publishing House, Leipzig, 1908 ( digitized version )
Manfred Hötzel: Adolf Bleichert and his work . Gohliser Historische Hefte, Sax Verlag Beucha, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 978-3-934544-35-2 .
Herbert Pönicke : Bleichert, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 298 f. ( Digitized version ).
P. Stephan: The cable cars . 2nd edition, published by Julius Springer, Berlin, 1914 ( digitized )

Web links

Family and company website: Bleichert & Co. - The cable car dynasty

Individual evidence

↑ Illustration in The Invention of the Cable Car
↑ Description, illustration in Die Drahtseilbahnen
↑ Manfred Hötzel: Adolf Bleichert and his work .
Jump up to hereditary nobility on March 24, 1918 by King Friedrich August III. of Saxony . It is probably the last uprising of the nobility before the abolition of the monarchy in Saxony.

personal data
SURNAME	Bleichert, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bleichert, Gustav Adolf Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cable car pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dessau
DATE OF DEATH	July 29, 1901
Place of death	Davos

[1] Illustration in The Invention of the Cable Car

[2] Description, illustration in Die Drahtseilbahnen

[3] Manfred Hötzel: Adolf Bleichert and his work .

[4] Jump up to hereditary nobility on March 24, 1918 by King Friedrich August III. of Saxony . It is probably the last uprising of the nobility before the abolition of the monarchy in Saxony.