Carl Francke

This article deals with the industrialist Carl Francke. For other people see Karl Francke and Carl Franke .

Carl Francke (born June 30, 1843 in Magdeburg ; † February 7, 1931 in Bremen ) was a German craftsman and entrepreneur .

biography

Francke learned his father's trade as the son of a master plumber . In 1871 he moved to Bremen and in 1872 set up an installation workshop for water and gas pipes as well as water and steam heating. In 1875 he founded a factory in Bremen on Bachstrasse, which installed gas systems in numerous cities (Francke-Werke). Often this also meant the production of other chemical products, such as B. ammonia or salmia connected.

In 1892 Francke founded the company Brema AG Central Administration of Gas, Water and Electricity Works , based in Bremen on Bachstrasse. Johannes Brandt, Francke's son-in-law, became a member of the board of directors at Brema AG .

In 1904 Francke built another factory on a property in the Seefeld area of ​​Bremen.

At times the Francke-Werke had more than 1000 employees in Bremen. The company was converted from an oHG into a partnership limited by shares in 1921 . During the Second World War, the production facilities at Francke-Werke were badly damaged, and after the war, machine and crane construction began again. The hydraulic engineering was also revitalized. A rescue company owned by the state at the time operated the factory as a GmbH at the old location in Seefelde, which later became Carl-Francke-Straße in Bremen.

The company was liquidated on August 21, 1957 , and the facilities were taken over by the Friedrich Kocks machine factory .

In 1954, in the Bremen-Neustadt district , Carl-Francke-Strasse was named after him.

literature

• Monika Porsch: Bremen Street Lexicon. Volume 2: Neustadt. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1836-4 .