Albrecht Ludwig Keferstein

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Albrecht Ludwig Keferstein (born April 10, 1792 in Cröllwitz , † December 26, 1872 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German entrepreneur. He is one of the pioneers of the industrial revolution in Halle (Saale).

Life

He was the son of Philipp Sebastian Ludwig Keferstein (1754-1834), a paper maker and paper merchant, and his wife (marriage October 14, 1790), the daughter Rahel Charlotte (1765-1845) of the paper manufacturer Gabriel Christoph Drewsen in Lachendorf near Celle. In addition to his brother Leberecht Adolf Orlando Keferstein , he had four siblings. His parents' house was destroyed in 1799 when the Saale flooded .

During the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia he learned his father's trade and then took an active part in the Wars of Liberation , where he rose to an officer in a Silesian infantry regiment. In 1820 he quit military service and took over his father's paper mill in Cröllwitz, where he employed 67 people. However, it burned down in 1823. The following year he led the reconstruction and expanded the mill considerably until 1846. During this time he founded the company Keferstein & Germar , which he converted to Keferstein & Sohn in 1848 . The most important bookshops and printers in Halle, Leipzig and Magdeburg obtained the paper from Cröllwitz.

When Keferstein celebrated his fiftieth papermaking anniversary on April 7, 1857, he was awarded the title of Kommerzienrat by the king. He was also a member of the Prussian mansion and city council in Halle (1856-1860). In 1825 he was accepted into the Masonic lodge to the three swords .

Publications

  • (together with GMS Fischer): Paper. In: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Sect. 3, part 11. Ed. By JS Verlag u. JG Gruber. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1838, pp. 75-104.
  • Illumination of the claims and promises, by which the share drawing for the Dresden paper mill was approved. HW Schmidt, Halle 1858.

literature

  • Bernhard Weißenborn: The Cröllwitzer paper mill in the two hundred years of its existence along with news about its predecessor, the Halle paper mill. Published on September 15, 1914 by the current administration of the Cröllwitzer Actien-Papier-Fabrik. Printing house d. Orphanage, Halle ad Saale 1914.
  • Bernhard Weißenborn: Albrecht Ludwig Keferstein . In: Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder , Volume 2, Lebensbilder des 19. Jahrhundert, Magdeburg 1927, pp. 146–150 (with picture).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wochenblatt für Papierfabrikation 63 (1932), p. 641.
personal data
SURNAME Keferstein, Albrecht Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and member of the Prussian manor house
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Cröllwitz
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1872
Place of death Halle (Saale)