Alfred Blancke

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Alfred C. Blancke (born May 7, 1875 in Merseburg ; † after 1935) was a German entrepreneur and art collector.

Life

Tower of the former Blancke works in Merseburg - one of the city's landmarks
View of the Blanckeplan settlement in Merseburg

He was the son of the engineer, chemist and entrepreneur Carl Wilhelm Julius Blancke and his wife Marie nee Radtke. His father had moved to Merseburg in 1866 and founded the Blancke-Werke there. After the early death of her father in 1885, Marie Blancke took over the management of the company and therefore sent Alfred Blancke to a grammar school in Geneva , where he took his school leaving examination. He then studied at the Technical University in Berlin and then completed vocational training in Berlin, Brussels, Paris and New York. After returning to Germany, Alfred Blancke took over the management of the Blancke works in 1903 and expanded it into one of the most important international machine and steam boiler valve factories of this type. The number of employees rose over a thousand, for whom the Blanckedorf and the Blanckeplan were built as factory settlements in Merseburg. During the Great Depression, the Blancke works went bankrupt.

Alred Blancke, who lived in the Villa Blancke in Merseburg , was often in Berlin. In 1918 he acquired the Villa Pücklerstrasse. 8 in Berlin-Dahlem. There he collected international furniture and applied arts from the 17th and 18th centuries. In the 1930s he moved to Berlin W 35, Woyrschstraße 35.

He carried the title of Privy Councilor and was temporarily the Imperial personal attaché to the legation.

Alfred Blancke was a member of the Berlin Club and the Association of German Engineers .

literature

  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . Vol. 1, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930.
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 133.

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ The permanent naming of this settlement to this day did not prevail.
personal data
SURNAME Blancke, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blancke, Alfred C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1935