Adolf Scheufelen

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Adolf Scheufelen (born January 28, 1864 in Oberlenningen ; † October 30, 1941 there ) was a German entrepreneur . He was the technical director of the Scheufelen paper mill .

Career

Scheufelen was a son of the teacher Karl Scheufelen and his wife Johanna Christiane Scheufelen born. Beurling. After attending school in Oberlenningen, he graduated from secondary school in Kirchheim unter Teck . From 1881 he studied chemistry and mechanical engineering at the Stuttgart Polytechnic and at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In Tübingen, he was charged with a dissertation on "iron compounds as Bromüberträger" doctorate . Further stations on his professional path were the Austrian paper mill Steyrermühl and the British company John Dickinson & Co., where he dealt with questions of paper sizing and with the construction of a pulp mill for "esparto paper" (base paper).

In 1888 Adolf Scheufelen returned to his father's company and in 1889 introduced the production of art paper . In 1895 the trademark “Phoenix Art Paper” was registered with the Reich Patent Office. In 1892 he took over as technical director and his brother Heinrich Scheufelen the commercial management of the company, which now as a first German art paper mill Carl Scheufelen changed its name . In 1895 he and his brother Heinrich were accepted as partners by their father Karl Scheufelen .

In 1902 Adolf Scheufelen married Paula Goßler (1877–1953) from Frankeneck (Palatinate), whose father Johann Erhard Goßler was also a paper manufacturer. The Goßler paper mill in Frankeneck, inherited from Paula Scheufelen, was integrated into the company in 1925. From 70 employees in 1892, the company had grown to 1,350 by 1941.

Scheufelen took on important functions in the associations of the paper industry. From 1899 he was on the board of the Association of German Paper Manufacturers (VDP), from which the Association of German Paper Mills emerged. He was also a member of the board (1906–1929) and chairman (1911–1922) of the paper makers ' liability insurance association in Württemberg . He was also involved as a member of the administrative committee and the board of directors of the Deutsches Museum in Munich .

Prizes and awards

Grave slabs of Adolf Scheufelen and his wife in the Oberlenningen cemetery

Fonts

  • The paper pulp and paper industry group in the Deutsches Museum in Munich . In: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the association. The Association of German Paper Manufacturers 1872-1922. Berlin 1922, pp. 261-267.
  • On the history of art paper. In: Papier-Zeitung , 61st year 1936, No. 1, pp. 36–38.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 years of Phoenix art paper. From the fine art of art paper. 100 years under the sign of the Phoenix paper mill Scheufelen, Lenningen. Lenningen 1992.
  2. ↑ Lore Sporhan-Krempel : The father's work, the mother's inheritance. History of the Gossler paper family in Frankeneck . Stuttgart 1952.
  3. ↑ New German Biography (see literature )
personal data
SURNAME Scheufelen, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberlenningen
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1941
Place of death Oberlenningen