Albert Knoevenagel

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Bust of Albert Knoevenagel from the workshop of the Gladenbeck corporation

Albert Knoevenagel (born July 23, 1825 in Landsberg an der Warthe , † May 27, 1907 in Hanover ) was a German locksmith , blacksmith , engineer , machine manufacturer , inventor and politician . He is considered "one of the pioneers of German engineering" and was - together with Conrad Bube - co-founder of the forerunner of the TÜV .

family

Funerary inscription Senator Albert Knoevenagel, ... Minna Niemeyer, Max ... and Adele Uhlenhuth .

Albert Knoevenagel was the son of a judicial officer. From the grave inscriptions of the family grave in the Engesohde city cemetery, one can deduce the marriage to Minna Niemeyer (* December 31, 1827, † April 22, 1907). There are also the names of Max Knoevenagel (son), married to Adele Uhlenhuth. In addition, further life dates with the names Mehrhardt, van Hoorn and Cramer are engraved.

Career

The original Knoevenagel villa ; undamaged on a photo around 1900;
Privately owned photography
1890: Signature of Albert Knoevenagel
February 1890: Letter from "A. Knoevenagel machine factory ... "
Knoevenagel family grave at the Engesohde city cemetery

Albert Knoevenagel trained as a locksmith and blacksmith and then attended the trade academy in Berlin .

He then worked in Berlin under August Borsig and Franz Anton Egells , and then worked for two years in Georg Egestorff's machine factory in Linden . With the job reference as a “particularly good and useful worker” , Knoevenagel then hiked on foot from Hanover to Chemnitz , to Switzerland and to southern France . In addition, Knoevenagel worked briefly in the Hanoverian railway workshop behind the main station and gained experience in the construction of freight wagons as operations manager of the Lücke car factory.

On April 6, 1856, Knoevenagel founded the A. Knoevenagel machine factory in Falkenstrasse in Linden near Hanover . From there he quickly gained a reputation that went well beyond Hanover with his "own designs".

In 1870 Knoevenagel became a co-founder and board member of the district association of the Association of German Engineers (VDI), of which he was elected chairman in 1880 and made an honorary member in 1905. At the same time, in 1873 he co-founded the “Association for the Monitoring of Steam Boilers” (the forerunner of today's TÜV), was also elected its chairman in the same year and held this position for 34 years until his death. In addition, Knoevenagel was a civil senator for many years.

In 1907 Albert Knoevenagel died and was buried in the Engesohde city cemetery . His bust from the Berlin workshop of the Aktien-Gesellschaft Gladenbeck can be found on the family grave .

After Knoevenagel's death, the company he founded remained in the hands of the family for three generations.

Awards and honors

Albert Knoevenagel has received numerous awards.

Later he received

Knoevenagelweg, laid out in 1956 in the Hainholz district , was named after the address book of the city of Hanover from 1957 "after the former owner of the Hanoverian company A. Knoevenagel, which had existed for over 100 years".

literature

Web links

Commons : Albert Knoevenagel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Knovenagel, Albert , and Knoevenagel GmbH & Co. KG. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 357
  2. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Bube, Conrad. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 75
  3. ↑ a b c d e Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Knoevenagel, Albert. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 202: limited preview in the Google book search
  4. ↑ see this photo
  5. ^ A b c d Ludwig Hoerner : Smith Putensen with his hammer, A. Knoevenagel Company, Hanover, around 1880. In: Hanover in early photographs 1848–1910 , Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , P. 226 f., With two photos from the 19th century. owned by the Knoevenagel company
  6. ↑ Note: According to the Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , Knoevenagel began his wanderings after attending the trade academy in Berlin. According to Ludwig Hoerner, after working for Egestorff (still?), Knoevenagel went on a journey.
  7. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Knoevenagel, Albert. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover .
  8. ↑ Note: The Hanover Chronicle (see literature) shows the year 1853 as the date of foundation
  9. ↑ a b Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Knoevenagel, Albert. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 357
  10. ↑ Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )
  11. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Knoevenagelweg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 145
personal data
SURNAME Knoevenagel, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German machine manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorzów Wielkopolski
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1907
Place of death Hanover