Adolf von Rauch (paper manufacturer)

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Adolf von Rauch
Portrait of the young Adolf von Rauch by Carl Dörr (1815)

Adolf von Rauch (born April 22, 1798 in Heilbronn ; † December 12, 1882 there ) was a German paper manufacturer in Heilbronn and as such one of the pioneers of the Heilbronn paper industry . He has also made an outstanding contribution to social housing in Heilbronn.

Life

The brothers Adolf and Moriz von Rauch owned a tobacco, oil and colored wood mill with an attached trading company that their grandfather Johann Benjamin Rauch (1703–1776) founded together with Christian Becht in 1762. Her father Johann Max Moriz Rauch (1754-1818) was ennobled in 1808. From 1821 to 1822 Adolf von Rauch was in England, where he acquired expertise in paper production. In 1823 the brothers put an English paper machine into operation in their mill and converted the mill into the Rauch Brothers paper mill . After he had five children, his brother Moriz gave him the Villa Rauch and took it as his residence.

When the Heilbronn Chamber of Commerce and Industry was founded in 1855, Adolf von Rauch was one of its twelve “notable” members who were appointed to this office by the King of Württemberg. In 1856, Rauch was one of the initiators of the first-time construction of special workers 'apartments by the oldest non-profit housing association in Württemberg, the association for the production of workers' apartments , from which today's Heilbronn urban estate later developed.

Adolf von Rauch had been married to Elisabeth Eleonore von der Velden (1810–1843), the daughter of a Frankfurt banker, since 1833 and had three children together, including Luise von Rauch (1842–1916), who married Adolf Feyerabend in 1869 . Elisabeth died in childbed six days after the birth of her second daughter Elisabeth.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willi Zimmermann: Social Housing 1856 - The first workers' apartments in Heilbronn . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 17th year, no. 11 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, November 13, 1971, ZDB -ID 128017-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Rauch, Adolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paper manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1882
Place of death Heilbronn