Carl Adolf Riebeck

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Carl Adolf Riebeck

Carl Adolf Riebeck , actually Carl Adolph Riebeck , (born September 27, 1821 in Clausthal , † January 28, 1883 in Halle ) was an industrialist and mining entrepreneur. The dispute over his sole ownership after his death led to the foundation of A. Riebeck'sche Montanwerke AG by his heirs.

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Riebeck came from a Clausthal miner's family. His father was a Steiger and Markscheider's assistant and moved with his family to Harzgerode in 1827 to work in the Lower Harz mining industry in Anhalt . After completing school in Harzgerode, Riebeck worked as a pit boy from 1835 and later as an apprentice in the Harzgeroder lead and silver mine Albertine . At the age of 18 he left the Harz Mountains to work in the lignite mines around Zeitz and Weißenfels . He attended the mountain school in Eisleben and acquired the qualification for climbing service .

After an accident, Riebeck was sentenced to a year in prison for culpable breach of duty, which he served between 1848 and 1849. After his release, he found a job at the Saxon-Thuringian Corporation for Brown Coal Utilization and worked his way up to the position of a mining inspector, which he received in 1856, with diligence and skill.

After realizing that a further career with the company was not possible, he resigned from his position in 1858. He acquired several known brown coal fields in the Bitterfeld and Weißenfels area , which he began to mine. In the course of time, Riebeck used credits to build coal mills and distillation plants for the extraction of paraffin , solar oil and tar . The mineral oil factories in Gosserau , Webau , Reuss near Theißen and Oberröblingen were the basis for Riebeck's empire.

Within a few years, Riebeck acquired almost all of the smelting plants, refining plants and briquette factories around Halle, Weißenfels and Bitterfeld. He developed lignite mining in the provinces of Saxony and Thuringia into a complex of large-scale industry.

In addition to the property of the later A. Riebeck'sche Montanwerke AG , Riebeck, who had been awarded the title of commercial councilor and who had become the richest citizen of Halle, also owned the Riebecksche Brewery , today's Leipzig brewery in Reudnitz , in Reudnitz in Saxony, and some manors. Even before the social legislation, Riebeck created social security measures for his workers in his works. Riebeck was a city councilor for Halle, and Riebeckplatz was named after him . His grave is in Halle's Stadtgottesacker .

Private life

Riebeck was married to Marie Renke (1825–1873) for the first time since 1847. The marriage resulted in 17 children, of which only 8 reached adulthood. Of these 8 children, only 2 were sons, Emil Riebeck and Paul Riebeck . His daughter Margarete (1864-1904) was married to the infantry general Reinhard Gottlob Georg Heinrich Freiherr von Scheffer-Boyadel and was ennobled with him in 1890. His daughter Marie married the geoscientist Hermann Credner in 1872 .

In 1877 Riebeck married Emilie Balthasar for the second time. The marriage resulted in 2 children, who both died of diphtheria.

literature

  • Hermann Krey: Carl Adolph Riebeck . In: Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder, Volume 1, Lebensbilder des 19. Jahrhundert, Magdeburg 1926, pp. 258–270
  • P. Franke et al .: 25 years Carl Adolph Riebeck 50 years A. Riebeck'sche Montanwerke Aktiengesellschaft 1858–1933 , Munich 1933
  • Sebastian Kranich : Mathäus Ludwig Wucherer, Carl August Jacob, Johann Gottfried Boltze, Carl Adolph Riebeck: Christian entrepreneurs in the Halle area. In: Ders., Peggy Renger-Berka, Klaus Tanner (ed.): Deaconesses - Entrepreneurs - Pastors. Social Protestantism in Central Germany in the 19th Century, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02686-9 , pp. 83–118, here pp. 111–118.
  • Petra Listewnik:  Riebeck, Carl Adolph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , pp. 557 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Simone Trieder: Carl Adolph Riebeck - From mountain boy to industrialist . - Halle (Saale): Hasenverlag, 2006. - 79 pages (Mitteldeutsche Kulturhistorische Hefte; 5) ISBN 978-3-939468-04-2

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SURNAME Riebeck, Carl Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riebeck, Carl Adolph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Industrial and mining entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Clausthal
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1883
Place of death Hall