Bernhard Boecker

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Bernhard Boecker (born May 15, 1768 in Hohenlimburg ; † April 17, 1847 there ), German wire drawer and founder of a wire weaving mill in Hohenlimburg.

Bernhard Boecker learned the technology of wire production in his father's wire drawing shop in Nahmerbachtal , a tributary of the Lenne in Westphalia . His technique of making knitting needles from wire drawn in a roll earned him the nickname "Strickstock-Berend".

From the autumn of 1816, Boecker continued to develop the safety miner's lamp , the so-called Davy lamp by the chemist Humphry Davy , which had been produced in England until then .

Mining lamp , after Davy ( Davy safety lamp )

At the suggestion of the Prussian miner Jacob Nöggerath and the then industrial school director Adam Storck , he improved the English Davy lamp by making a brass wire for the miner's lamp on a canvas loom that was transformed into a wire loom, which was finer than the English model, and also owned the lamp only three struts instead of five and provided more light.

The Boecker lamp made of brass and iron was available from the summer of 1817, and the iron lamp in particular was significantly cheaper than the original from England. It was used in the former coal fields on the Lower Rhine and in Westphalia. The demand was so excellent that Boecker could hardly keep up with production. In 1822, Boecker received for the quality of his model from King Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Prussia at the exhibition for patriotic industrial products in Berlin the 1st price.

In 1826 Boecker and Carl Haver founded the wire weaving mill "Boecker & Haver" in Hohenlimburg, the forerunner of today's Bernhard Boecker Kaltwalzwerk GmbH + Co., and in 1931 the then Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, who later became King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, visited the Boeckersche wire weaving mill with a delegation. Boecker died a wealthy man in 1847.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Boecker In: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, 2nd edition 2005
  2. ↑ Bernhard Boecker cold rolling mill - origin and foundation of the company

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SURNAME Boecker, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mastermind
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenlimburg
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1847
Place of death Hohenlimburg