Carl August Buchholz (entrepreneur)

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Carl August Buchholz (* 6. February 1837 in Krommenohl ; † 2. May 1914 in Ohl ) was a German gunpowder - producer .

Life

Carl August Buchholz was born as the son of the powder manufacturer Carl Friedrich Buchholz and great-grandson of the powder manufacturer Johann Hermann Cramer. After finishing school, he studied engineering at the Hanover Polytechnic . In 1856 he became a member of the Slesvico-Holsatia country team, later the Slesvico-Holsatia Corps . After completing his studies, he joined his father's company, Cramer & Buchholz in Rönsahl , which had achieved international renown, especially with its Diana hunting powder . He and his brother Eugen soon took over management of the company. In 1870 they founded the Klüppelberger Volksbank. In 1873 they acquired the I. Hampe Nachf. Powder factory in Rübeland in the Harz region. In 1887 they participated in the founding of Bergisch-Märkische Steinindustrie AG in Cologne with the aim of using their explosive powders in their quarries. In Rübeland they founded the Rübeländer Kalkwerke Buchholz & Märtens , which later became Harzer Kalkindustrie AG, with a similar objective . They also founded a chemical factory in Egerpohl and continued to run the fertilizer factory founded by their father in Gogarten .

With the advent of dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel , black powder manufacturers came under increasing economic pressure. Cramer & Buchholz therefore concluded a cartel agreement with Wolff & Co. in 1887 . On May 24, 1889, another powder cartel agreement was concluded. In addition to Cramer Buchholz and Wolff & Co. , this cartel also included the United Rheinisch-Westfälische powder factories based in Cologne and the powder factory in Rottweil-Hamburg . The duration of the contract was 37 years until the end of 1925. The contract assured each of the four contracting parties that they would maintain their independence and autonomy and regulated the distribution of the total operating results of all four companies together according to a fixed distribution key.

Carl August Buchholz was succeeded by his eldest son, Carl Emil Buchholz, in the management of the family company.

Awards

  • Carl August Buchholz carried the honorary title of Royal Councilor of Commerce.
  • In 1878 the Corps Slesvico-Holsatia made him an honorary boy.

literature

  • Erich Kahl: The gunpowder museum in the Villa Buchholz . In: Wipperfürther Vierteljahresblätter , No. 95 (January – March 2005), p. 2 f. Digitized version (with family picture from around 1910; PDF; 563 kB)
  • Richard Escales: Black powder and explosive nitrate , 1914, (Reprint 2003, ISBN 3-8330-1124-6 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corps Slesvico-Holsatia, Corpsliste , winter semester 1981/82, p. 14, no. 040
personal data
SURNAME Buchholz, Carl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gunpowder manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Krommenohl
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1914
Place of death Ohl