August Leberecht Schönberg

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August Leberecht Schönberg (born May 12, 1761 in Dresden ; † April 4, 1825 there ) was a German merchant.

He came from a merchant family in Dresden and completed his apprenticeship in Magdeburg . Then he went to London to deepen his knowledge. As he was very successful, he became a partner in the Messrs. Stratton, Gibson and Schönberg company in 1797 . When he came to St. Petersburg on a business trip , he was able to become a partner in the Bach office. When he met the banker Boethlingk, who was married to a daughter of the bank Bartholomäus Borst and had thus taken over the bank, he met his daughter Katharina.

On January 1, 1801, he married Katharina in St. Petersburg. This relationship enabled him to make a great fortune there over the years. Schönberg went back to Dresden with his family in 1806. He acquired some land in Dresden and bought some manors in Saxony. The marriage had twelve children, six of whom died soon after birth. In 1843, the sons Heinrich and Alexander founded the Gröba hammer mill near Riesa (also known as the Riesa ironworks).

literature

  • Horst Wagenblass, Railway construction and the growth of the German iron and mechanical engineering industry from 1835 to 1860; a contribution to the history of industrialization in Germany, Stuttgart 1973
  • Hubert Kiesewetter, Industrialization and Agriculture: Saxony's Position in the Regional Industrialization Process in Germany in the 19th Century, Cologne 1988
  • Michael J. Schäfer, Rainer Karlsch, Economic History of Saxony in the Industrial Age, Dresden 2006
  • Hubert Kiesewetter, The industrialization of Saxony: a regional comparative explanatory model, Stuttgart 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erik Amburger database - data set
  2. ^ Heinz Müller: History of the VEB steel and rolling mill Riesa 1843-1945. Berlin 1961, p. 365.
  3. ↑ Ursula Forberger : Schönberg, Heinrich . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  4. ↑ Heinz Müller, ibid, p. 366
personal data
SURNAME Schönberg, August Leberecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1825
Place of death Dresden