Carl Eschebach

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Carl Eschebach (born May 4, 1842 in Wittenberg ; † February 8, 1905 in Monte Carlo , Monaco ; full name: Carl August Emil Eschebach ) was a German entrepreneur who manufactured tin goods and kitchen furniture in Dresden . Within a few years he rose from a small business owner to great affluence and was appointed to the Council of Commerce in 1892 and the Secret Council of Commerce in 1898 .

Life

United Eschebach'sche Werke AG building in Dresden- Pieschen , Riesaer Strasse 7
Villa Eschebach in Dresden, since 1993 the representative headquarters of the Dresdner Volksbank Raiffeisenbank
Tomb of Carl Eschebach in the Johannisfriedhof Dresden-Tolkewitz

The son of the master bookbinder Friedrich Eschebach († 1871) and Johanne Christiane Eschebach born. Schmidt went to a plumber champion in rounders in the teaching . He then worked in Wittenberg, Hanover , Köthen and Berlin . He exhibited his petroleum stoves built in Koethen at the Leipzig trade fair .

Eschebach married Bertha Emma born in 1872 . Illgner (* 1851), who took over a plumbing business in Dresden in the same year. He made household items there before his wife left the business after five years. At that time, Eschebach founded the plumbing business Eschebach & Haußner with the merchant Julius Haußner for the production of household items, and he also had a villa built as a summer house on the Weißer Hirsch .

The success of the company, not least due to the steady population growth, made it necessary to move into new premises on the banks of the Elbe in 1878 and in Dresden Neustadt in 1880 and employ around 150 workers. In 1886 the company set up a branch on the Dresden-Görlitzer Bahn in Radeberg . In addition to cast iron and enamel goods , the Radeberger Guß- und Enaillierwerke Carl Eschebach & Co. also manufactured ice boxes. The product range was expanded from kitchen utensils and cookers to enamel products for care needs. In 1890 , Eschebach merged its two companies into the Vereinigte Eschebach'sche Werke Aktiengesellschaft , based in Dresden. Half of the products made by the more than 600 workers were exported . In 1900 the Dresden plant was relocated to a modern new building in the western district of Pieschen . When Eschebach died, both plants had around 2,000 workers.

Carl Eschebach, who was one of the wealthiest residents of Dresden at the turn of the century, showed himself socially towards his employees and, among other things, made company apartments available and founded a foundation that was supposed to protect his workers from emergencies.

In 1897 he acquired the spa and bathing facilities in Berggießhübel , which he subjected to a comprehensive renovation, as well as the Friedrichsthal Castle there. In 1899 he donated the Berggießhübler Bismarck Tower and became an honorary citizen of the city and an honorary member of the mountain association for Saxon Switzerland founded in 1877 .

In 1903, Eschebach had the representative Villa Eschebach built on Albertplatz in Dresden's Neustadt district , which his heirs lived in until 1920. Carl Eschebach died in February 1905 during a recreational stay in Monte Carlo as a result of flu. He was buried in a crypt at the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden-Tolkewitz . The hereditary funeral decorated with the figure of a seated mourners by Hans Dammann (1867–1942) has been preserved.

Carl Eschebach's art collection was auctioned on November 26, 1912 in the Heilbron Brothers art auction house in Berlin.

Honors

Memorial plaque on the Berggießhübler Bismarck Tower
  • Commerce Council (1892)
  • Secret Commerce Council (1898)
  • Honorary citizen of the city of Berggießhübel
  • Honorary membership of the Mountain Association for Saxon Switzerland
  • Name of Eschebachstrasse in Dresden- Pieschen (1911)
  • Designation of Eschebach street in Loschwitz , after the incorporation to Dresden in Hermann-Prell-road renamed

literature

  • Final auctions, Reinhold Bega's artistic estate , paintings and sculptures from the collection of the Secret Commerce Council Eschebach-Dresden and other private property. (Catalog for auction on November 26, 1912) Berlin art auction house Gebrüder Heilbron, Berlin 1912.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heike Biedermann, Ulrich Bischoff, Mathias Wagner (eds.): From Monet to Mondrian. Modern masterpieces from Dresden's private collections from the first half of the 20th century . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-06631-1 , p. 277 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Eschebach, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eschebach, Carl August Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1905
Place of death Monte Carlo , Monaco