Alfred Schmidt (industrialist)

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Leopold Emil Alfred Schmidt (born August 9, 1867 in Cologne , † March 8, 1931 in Cologne-Lindenthal ) was a German industrialist and pharmacy historian .

Life

Alfred Schmidt was the son of the Monschau- born businessman Franz Emil Schmidt and his wife Franziska Henrietta Leopoldina Schmidt, née Bodewig, from Bergheim. His grandfather, the Leipzig- born businessman Anton Jacob Constantin Schmidt, died in Cologne in 1865 before Alfred was born. Emil Schmidt took over E. Leybold's successor company together with Otto Ladendorff in 1870 . The company manufactured precision mechanical and optical devices for pharmaceutical and physical-technical needs. Alfred Schmidt first completed his commercial training and then studied at the universities of Berlin and Bonn , but initially without a degree. In 1891 Schmidt joined his father's company and was elected to the board in 1910.

In the following decades, Schmidt was mainly involved in associations. He was a co-founder and since then a board member of the Association of Large Cologne Companies and the Central Association of German Wholesalers , and from 1919 a member of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In addition, he was active in several research funding associations, including the Kaiser Wilhelm Society , the German Society for the History of Medicine, Natural Science and Technology (as secretary) and the German Society for Mechanics and Optics (as President).

It was through him that the cooperation between E. Leybold's successor and Wolfgang Gaede , the pioneer in vacuum technology, was initiated.

Grave in the Melaten cemetery

Schmidt dealt with the history of pharmacy throughout his life . He wrote two books about it: A history of the Cologne pharmacies based on the posthumous records of Friedrich Bellingrodt (first in 1918) and his doctoral thesis on drugs and drug trafficking in antiquity , with which he was awarded a doctorate in 1923 in Bonn. phil. received his doctorate . Both works were the first representations of their kind and were reprinted after a short time. They are unsurpassed in the abundance and arrangement of their material to this day. Schmidt also published a history of the Leybold company in 1925.

He died in 1931 in his villa in Lindenthal, Joeststr. 19 (today Fürst-Pückler-Str. 46), which was heavily damaged during the Second World War and subsequently rebuilt as an apartment building. His son-in-law Dr. As his successor, Manfred Dunkel continued to run E. Leybold's Successor as a family business until 1967. His grave is in the Melaten cemetery (corridor 20 (E)).

Fonts (selection)

  • The Cologne pharmacies from the earliest times to the end of the imperial city constitution. Bonn 1918. 2nd improved and increased edition, Cologne / Mittenwald 1930.
  • Drugs and drug trafficking in ancient times. Leipzig 1924. 2nd edition 1927. Reprint New York 1979.
  • History of E. Leybold's Successor 1850–1925. Cologne 1926.
  • Drugs. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume V, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 172-182.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Alfred Schmidt  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Landesarchiv NRW, Rhineland, civil status archive, civil status register, LG Cologne, StA Cologne, G 2459/1867.
  2. ^ A b Landesarchiv NRW, Rhineland, civil status archive, civil status register, registry office Lindenthal, S 387/1931.
  3. ^ Landesarchiv NRW, Rhineland, civil status archive, civil status register, LG Cologne, StA Cologne, H 588/1866.
  4. ^ Landesarchiv NRW, Rhineland, civil status archive, civil status register, LG Cologne, StA Cologne, S 2816/1865.
  5. ↑ GAEDE Foundation: GAEDE FOUNDATION. Retrieved November 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Leopold Emil Alfred (= full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist and pharmaceutical historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1931
Place of death Lindenthal (Cologne)