Alexis Bishop

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Alexis Bishop (born January 19, 1857 in Mägdesprung in Anhalt , † November 28, 1922 in Dessau ) was an industrialist from Anhalt .

Life

Alexis Bishop came from an old industrial family. His grandfather was the salt works director Johann Andreas Bischof (1765-1832), his father the mountain ridge and hut director Carl Andreas Bischof (1812-1884). For engineering studies, he went to the Commercial Academy Charlottenburg and joined in the summer semester 1875 the Association of Saxony, later Corps Saxonia-Berlin, at.

After graduating, he was one of the pioneers in the chemical industry in Anhalt. He founded A. Bischof AG, Coswig, and in 1890 the Anhaltische Zündwarenfabrik Heintz & Bischof, Coswig, which was sold to Stahl & Nölke AG in Kassel in 1921. At the same time as the sale, his son Friedrich Bischof , who had since become a partner, joined the board of directors of Stahl & Nölke AG and Deutsche Zündholzfabriken AG, Berlin.

In 1891 he received a concession to build an explosives factory in Coswig, which he had transferred to the newly founded WASAG in Düsseldorf in the same year .

Honorary positions

In 1898, Bischof was one of the initiators of the Bismarck Tower on the Hubertusberg near Coswig. For many years he was the chairman of the Bismarck Association, which was founded in 1903 to maintain the tower and its facilities.

literature

  • Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967 , Aachen 1968
  • Bishop, Friedrich. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 141.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Carl Andreas Bischof (1812-1884) in ingpost.de
  2. ↑ WASAG Reinsdorf ( Memento from November 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ The Bismarck Tower near Wörpen
personal data
SURNAME Bishop, Alexis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bishop, Alexis Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anhalt industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Mägdesprung (Harzgerode)
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1922
Place of death Dessau