Carl August Klindworth

Karl August and Wilhelmine Dorothea Klindworth;
Studio photo of Karl Friedrich Wunder , Friedrichstrasse , cabinet format , around 1860

Ludwig Carl August Klindworth (born June 5, 1791 in Göttingen , † June 29, 1862 in Hanover ) was a mechanic and entrepreneur .

family

Klindworth was the second son of the Göttingen mechanic and watchmaker Johann Andreas Klindworth (1742–1813) and Friederike Diederichs. The older brother Karl Friedrich Felix Klindworth (approx. 1788-1851) continued his workshop after the death of his father. His younger brother was Georg Klindworth . Carl August married Dorothea Wilhelmine (1800–1853), the daughter of the court printer Johann Thomas Lamminger (1757–1805). Karl Klindworth and Justus Christian Friedrich Klindworth were their sons.

Life

Following the traditions of the craftsmen at Göttingen University , Carl August Klindworth built mathematical, physical and optical instruments after settling in Hanover. In 1831 he constructed the kingdom's first 1 hp steam engine for the water supply to the municipal hospital in Linden . In 1836 he founded a machine factory that supplied, among other things, parts and machines for fire engines, rolling mills and letterpress presses. In the middle of the 1840s , Klindworth traded as "Maschinenfabrik und Mechanische Werkstätte" and was also recommended in the Hanover city directory in 1860 for "glasses, lorgnets , theater perspectives, barometers, gold scales, thermometers, etc."

Klindworth was the instructor of the future factory owner, mayor and Senator Conrad Bube .

Awards

"For his delivered to weaving and spinning machines", such as the Mechanical Weaving , who was trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover Klindworth 1837 with the Golden Needle of.

literature

• R. Hartmann : History of the royal seat of Hanover from the oldest times to the present , 2nd edition, 1886, p. 1185
• Albert Lefèvre: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 24 (1970), pp. 186, 274
• Ludwig Hoerner : agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 , ed. from Volksbank Hannover , Hannover 1995, p. 90 and others.
• Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Klindworth, (1) Carl August. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 353.

References and comments

1. ↑ Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 200 [1]
2. ^ Wolfgang Promies (ed.): Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Writings and letters. Commentary on Vol. 1 and 2. Munich: Hanser, 1992. New edition Zweiausendundeins, 1994. P. 982
3. ↑ See also Anton Würz:  Klindworth, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 75 f. ( Digitized version ). There the full name is given as Carl August Ludwig and as the year of birth 1789.
4. ^ Otto Behrendsen: New contributions to the history of the mechanics of Göttingen in the 18th and in the first half of the 19th century . In: Deutsche Mechaniker-Zeitung , 1907
5. ↑ in Grosse Duvenstrasse , a street in Calenberger Neustadt that was destroyed in World War II , see Hanover city map
6. ↑ Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon, p. 75: [2]
7. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Klindworth ... (see literature)
8. ↑ according to Waldemar R. Röhrbein "1837 as the first company of its kind in the kingdom ... founded", see mechanical weaving mill (Hanover)