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August Burg (born March 26, 1820 in Berlin ; † January 1, 1882 there ) was a German industrialist of the Jewish religion .

Origin, life

August Burg was born on March 26, 1820 in Berlin as the fifth of seven children of the licensed protection Jew , money changer and main lottery collector Jacob Moses Burg and his wife Amalie, née Sachs. At that time, the family lived at Klosterstrasse 32. Many Berlin Jews lived in this area in Old Berlin , not far from Jüdenstrasse and the Großer Jüdenhof . Jacob Moses Burg had his shop at the Colonnaden on the Königsbrücke . August Burg's grandfather, Moses Magnus Samuel, was born in Burg near Magdeburg, where the ancestors came from. The family then moved to Berlin, where - at the beginning of the 19th century, probably in 1812 - they adopted the "permanent" family name "Burg". The so-called Jewish major Meno Burg was August Burg's uncle.

The industrialist

August Burg first appeared in the Berlin address book in 1850, together with his younger brother Wilhelm Meno Burg, as the owner of a tobacco factory at Alexanderstraße 2, in the immediate vicinity of Alexanderplatz . In 1852 he lived at Landsberger Straße 57, the shop was still on Alexanderstraße, everything within walking distance. In 1865 he was listed in the Berlin address book as a merchant and cigar manufacturer . Through the marriage of his youngest brother, Dr. Otto Burg and a daughter of the Jewish grain merchant Simon Boehm established connections with a second Berlin merchant family. Through these relationships, among other things, August Burg also became a partner in a stearin and paraffin candle factory . August Burg lived at Schöneberger Ufer 17 in 1879 and was now the owner of the “ Bruno-, Antoni- and Valentin-Zeche ” lignite mine near Teplitz in Bohemia . The storage area in Trebbiner Strasse on the Dresden Railway indicates that the lignite from the pits in Bohemia was brought to Berlin by train via Dresden . Lignite or lignite grit was the main fuel for brickworks . Around 1881 it came to participation in the brick factory in Hennigsdorf , Osthavelland district . Only in the address book of the year 1882 is August Burg mentioned as the owner of the " Dampfziegelei und Thonwerk Hennigsdorf a. Havel August Burg “called.

August Burg died on January 1, 1882. He was single - no descendants are known - and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg on Schönhauser Allee .

The Hennigsdorfer Ziegelei was built in 1866/67, originally as a single single-chamber kiln, and from 1872 onwards it was expanded to include a further eight kilns. The clay for brick production was dug in Marwitz and brought to Hennigsdorf about 8 km away by horse-drawn tram . With the capital of August Burg, the commercial know-how of the Boehm family and the hiring of an innovative plant manager, the Hennigsdorf brickworks developed into a large clay factory from 1885 and later one of the largest north German manufacturers of interlocking bricks . In January 1899 the company “ Dampfziegelei und Thonwerk Hennigsdorf a. H. August Burg ”was converted into a stock corporation, the supervisory board of the AG temporarily included Professor Wilhelm Cremer and master builder Richard Wolffenstein . The company, which got into difficulties due to the effects of the First World War , was taken over by AEG in 1916 ; a powder factory for the manufacture and filling of artillery shells and the Hennigsdorf steel and rolling mill were built north of the clay works . The roof tile production was continued until the 1920s, then stopped and the clay works was completely cleared.

Web links

• Klaus Euhausen: The early industrial development of Hennigsdorf. (PDF)
• Roof tile archive: August Burg (catalogs, chronicles, etc.)