August Wilhelm Andernach
August Wilhelm Andernach (born July 10, 1862 in Bredenbruch , † August 11, 1942 in Beuel ) was a German manufacturer , landowner and alpinist . In 1888 he founded AW Andernach GmbH & Co. KG.
Life
August Wilhelm Andernach came from a wealthy family of merchants and entrepreneurs from Soest . He was married to Josephine Andernach, b. Risse, daughter of the imperial court photographer Edmund Risse. The four sons Ewald, Werner sr., August Gerhard and Roland Edmund Andernach followed from the marriage.
From 1888 to the 1910s, Andernach built the "Mittelrheinische Theerproducten- und Dachpappen-Fabriek AW Andernach" in Bonn on the Rhine. During this time he lived, among other places, in Mehlem's house .
At the beginning of the 1910s, Andernach in Upper Bavaria moved to his father's castle in Gut Mittelstetten near Landsberg am Lech , where he lived until the 1930s. In the meantime, he gradually acquired agricultural and forestry businesses in the vicinity of Mittelstetten. Namely the Jagdberg and Hirschberg estates. In addition, together with his son Ewald Andernach, he built a state-of-the-art farm in the 1930s, the Andernachhof near Landsberg am Lech, which the son took over. He was also the owner of the Hirschau and Jagdberg estates near Steingaden for several years .
As a free balloon guide, Andernach crossed the Alps several times and created several volumes of photographs of the Alps from a bird's eye view. He was also a passionate alpinist and a member of the German Alpine Club (membership number 10). At the old age of 80 he took part in alpine expeditions, where he fell ill with pulmonary edema and died after his return on August 11, 1942 in Beuel am Rhein, today a district of Bonn.
Services
August Wilhelm Andernach bought a tar production plant in Beuel am Rhein in 1888 and expanded it. He founded the “Mittelrheinische Theerproducten- und Dachpappen-Fabriek AW Andernach”, whose “Bonn shingles ” became world-famous in the industry. AW Andernach GmbH & Co. KG, with its 115 years of company history, is one of Bonn's traditional companies. Andernach developed various roofing materials in his company , in particular the Kosmos folding panels. These folding boards, patented by him, were used to build dry wall surfaces and are still used today in a further developed form under the same name for roof construction.
In the 1920s and during the Third Reich, his sons August Gerhard Andernach and Roland Edmund Andernach managed the company, while August Wilhelm Andernach withdrew from the operative business. In the post-war period, the company still benefited from developments and patents by August Wilhelm Andernach. This created the basis for the largest single European factory of bitumen roofing materials in private ownership. AWA GmbH & Co. KG was successfully continued into the third generation by the founder's grandchildren, Gerd Andernach and Werner Wolfgang Andernach.
Works
- Against damp walls. Weckmann, Beuel am Rhein approx. 1910.
- Study on the history of the Andernach clan. Schmidt & Andernach, Dortmund 1937.
literature
- Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Study on the history of the Andernach clan. Schmidt & Andernach, Dortmund 1937
- ↑ Study on the history of the Andernach clan. Schmidt & Andernach, Dortmund 1937.
- ^ Andernachhof near Landsberg am Lech
- ^ German aviation magazine 1912
- ↑ German Aviation Volume 16
- ^ Notices from the German and Austrian Alpine Club
- ↑ Cem Akalin: Andernach factory on Röhfeldstrasse is partially demolished In: General-Anzeiger of April 15, 2011
- ↑ Trademarks of AWA ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Delphine Sachsenröder: Construction crisis brings “Bonner Schindeln” down ( Memento from June 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: General-Anzeiger from February 21, 2003
- ↑ Sueddeutsche ABuzeitung Volume 23 1913
- ↑ In: Patentblatt: published by the Kaiserl. Patent Office, Volume 27
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Andernach, August Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bredenbruch |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1942 |
| Place of death | Bump |