Anton Wiede

Gotthelf Anton Wiede (born December 24, 1836 in Böhrigen , † April 19, 1911 in Karlsbad ) was a German textile and mining engineer, mine separator and entrepreneur in Saxony , Thuringia and Bavaria .

Life

Wiede was born in 1836 as the son of a miller in Böhrigen near Roßwein in Saxony. From 1850 he attended the royal trade school in Chemnitz . He specialized in the field of spinning. In 1854 he successfully completed school. He found his first job as a foreman at the worsted spinning mill in Schedewitz near Zwickau . He continued his education as early as 1858. Until 1859 he trained as a markscheider at the Freiberg Mining Academy.

In 1867 the Morgenstern hard coal works were founded in Zwickau, later the Martin Hoop hard coal works , and in 1871 the Concordia hard coal works in the Oelsnitz district.

In 1883 he founded Wiedes paper factory Rosenthal / Reuss in Blankenstein (Thuringia), today's pulp and paper factory Rosenthal . In 1884 the cellulose factory Wiede & Co./ Hof was founded and in 1886 the wood pulp factory Höllental , both in Bavaria.

View of Trebsen from the Wiede'schen Esse (wood grinder and paper mill Wiede & Söhne)

In 1887, Wiede received an appointment to the Commerce Council of the Principality of Reuss Younger Line . In 1889 the Böhriger Foundation was established at the Royal Higher Industrial School in Chemnitz with a capital stock of 12,000 marks. In 1893 he was involved in the wood grinding and paper factory Wiede & Söhne / Trebsen on the Mulde (Saxony). In 1894 the Blankenberg paper mill in Thuringia was bought.

In 1903, the Wiedeturm was built near Blankenstein on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Wiedes Papierfabrik Rosenthal. In the same year the Rennsteig memorial was established in Blankenstein. In 1903, Wiedes Carbidewerk Freyung / Bavaria and the Kohlensäurewerk Hölle / Bavaria were founded in Hell near Naila . In 1911 the Anton Wiede Foundation was established with a total of 25,000 marks at the Royal Trade School in Chemnitz as the successor to the Böhriger Foundation

Wiede lived in Bockwa near Zwickau. He was married to a daughter of Johanne Dorothea Sarfert, the owner of the hard coal works Carl Gotthilf Sarfert's heirs. Wiede's three sons Johannes, Alfred and Fritz Wiede continued to run the company after his death in 1911.

His son Johannes set a monument to his father with a church window in the town church of Trebsen. It was made on the occasion of the birth of the first child of Johannes and Else Wiede, a daughter of Bruno Steglich , shortly after the death of their grandfather and shows Anton Wiede and his previously deceased wife as angels next to the parents and the newborn. The window painting was done by the Dresden company Urban , where Josef Goller was the artistic director.

literature

• Herta Vogel: The Hell Valley. 1989, Ackermann Verlag Hof; Issue 1 of the series FRANKENWALD - BAYERNS GRÜNE KRONE of the Frankenwaldverein eV
• Pedigree Wiede. 1940, arr. on behalf of Kommerzienrat Johannes Wiede in Trebsen by Karl Steinmüller , Leipzig: Central office for Dt. Personal and family history

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Not only money was made from coal. In: TU-Spektrum 4/2001, p. 43
2. ↑ Bergarchiv Freiberg : 40111 - Morgenstern Zwickau union  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Geo-Coaching.net: Rosenthal-Weg US 13
4. ↑ Heiko Jadatz, Walter Schormann: City Church Trebsen. 2005, edited by Ev.-Luth. Parish Trebsen; Sax-Verlag Beucha