August Bechem
August (Johann Friedrich) Bechem (born May 13, 1838 in Emmerich , † October 13, 1873 in Duisburg ) was a German engineer and industrialist.
Life
His parents were the wine merchant Johann Friedrich August Bechem (1810–50) and Louisa Juliana, a daughter of the Elberfeld master builder Wilhelm Hüls († 1838).
After completing his technical training at the Hagen trade school, he began working as an engineer at the Isselburger Hütte. He proved himself in the assembly of excavators, with which the dredging of the dollar could be resumed. He then got a managerial position and met Theodor Keetman .
To expand his knowledge, he switched to Funcke & Elbers in Hagen, and learned how to build puddling plants and rolling mills. Soon he was given the technical management of the company and was able to bring his friend Keetmann here as an accountant. On a trip through England he studied the local ironmongery industry .
The friends wanted to start their own company. As Bechem explains in a letter dated March 26, 1861, they wanted to use capital from their relatives and friends to produce hardware that was needed in large quantities, and they decided to make chains and horseshoes. In February 1862 they set up a ten-year contract for a company in Duisburg. A few months later they learned that the closed machine factory of the recently deceased Ewald Hülsmann could be bought for 18,000 thalers, and on October 15, 1862 they signed the purchase contract.
Bechem & Keetmann , with Bechem as the technical director, mainly manufactured rollers, hydraulic winches and buffer sleeves ; she also ran a brass foundry. In 1872 they converted the company into Duisburger Maschinen-AG, formerly Bechem & Keetmann , from which Demag later emerged.
literature
- Conrad Matschoss: A Century of German Mechanical Engineering. From the mechanical workshop to the German machine factory, 1819-1919 . Springer, Berlin 1919 ( digitized version )
- Friedrich-Christian Stahl: Bechem, August Johann Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 687 f. ( Digitized version ).
swell
- ↑ Matschoss page 77- 81 (PDF; 1.0 MB)
- ↑ Matschoss page 82- 86 (PDF; 1.0 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bechem, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bechem, August Johann Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German machine builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Emmerich (today: Emmerich am Rhein ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 1873 |
| Place of death | Duisburg |