Adolf Wicking

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Adolf Wicking (born February 4, 1808 , † March 24, 1877 in Recklinghausen ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Adolf Wicking was born in 1808 as the son of the cloth manufacturer Joseph Wicking. Wicking initially followed in his father's footsteps and worked as a cloth manufacturer. He was a respected citizen in Recklinghausen and enjoyed influence in the highest circles. Through those of him and Dr. Franz Schneider handed over letters of appeal dated May 18, 1848, he was able to convince Prosper Ludwig von Arenberg to donate a hospital in Recklinghausen, especially for poorer citizens.

Wicking founded the Wicking'sche Industrie für Holz- und Baubedarf AG in Recklinghausen in 1871 and the Wicking'sche Portland cement and water lime works in Münster in 1873 .

His daughter Henriette Wicking (1848-1922) emerged from his marriage to Gertrud Alby (1810–1882), whose son Rudolf ten Hompel sat on the board of Wicking's Portland cement and water lime works from 1915 to 1931 . Ten Hompel developed the company founded by Wicking into the largest cement company in Germany in the 1920s. In 1931, as a result of the global economic crisis , the company was on the verge of bankruptcy and merged with Dyckerhoff & Söhne GmbH to form Portland-Zementwerke Dyckerhoff-Wicking AG .

A Wickingstrasse is named after Adolf Wicking in Recklinghausen (since 1900) and Gelsenkirchen (since 1903) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Wicking . In: deutsche-biographie.de, accessed on August 15, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Silvia Seimetz: Part 7: the entrepreneurial families Wicking and ten Hompel: Great rise and deep fall . In: Recklinghausener Zeitung from November 20, 2015.
  3. ↑ Wicking'sche Portland cement and Wasserkalkwerke . In: albert-gieseler.de, accessed on August 15, 2019.
  4. ^ Rudolf ten Hompel . In: deutsche-biographie.de, accessed on August 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wicking, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1808
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1877
Place of death Recklinghausen