Carl Friedrich August Fischer

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Carl Friedrich August Fischer

Carl Friedrich August Fischer (born August 7, 1778 in Budissin (today Bautzen), † August 10, 1842 ibid) was a German paper manufacturer and owner of the CFA Fischer paper mill in Bautzen.

Life

Fischer was the son of the paper mill owner Johann August Fischer (1751–1782) in Bautzen and his wife Sophie Elisabeth, daughter of the stocking manufacturer Wahr in Bautzen. He learned the art of papermaking and traveled to France and Holland during his traveling years. In 1799 he took over the Bautzen paper mill, which was last run by his stepfather August Ernst Hertel. In 1800 he married Johanna Agnes Janasch, the daughter of a mill owner, in his first marriage. In 1801 he had the mill weir rebuilt in the Spree. In the same year the backward customs of the paper makers in Bautzen were abolished. In 1804, 24 workers worked in the paper mill. After a flood in June 1804, great financial efforts were needed to repair the paper mill. On February 22, 1805, Fischer bought the paper mill in Obergurig from Johann Traugott Schaffhirt for 10,600 thalers and 75 thalers for key money. From now on the company was called "Carl Friedrich August Fischer Paper Mills Bautzen and Obergurig". The factory in Bautzen at that time consisted of three factory buildings, four water wheels, two stamps, a Dutchman and two ladle chests. Around 1800, Bautzen paper was traded to Antwerp, London, New York, Austria, Switzerland, Greece and the Orient. In 1810, Fischer had a rag store built. In 1820 he had four new medium-sized water wheels installed. In 1821 he had a manufacturer's villa built in Obergurig. In 1824 Fischer married Adolfine Ottilie Jancovius, the daughter of a senator, in his second marriage. His factory was considered a leading paper-producing company in Saxony , which had received several awards for its fine writing, drawing, printing and engraving papers . In 1824 Fischer received a gold medal at the "Exhibition of products from the entire domestic industry" initiated by King Friedrich August I of Saxony in the Brühlschen Palais . On June 18, 1827 and February 11, 1828, CFA Fischer bought the top and bottom of the front bleach and began to shift its efforts to the right side of the Spree. Two factory buildings had been built by 1830 and were operational in 1833. In 1835 the first paper machine, a fourdrinier machine with a width of 1.20 m, was installed by the Bryan Donkin Company in London . In the same year the Doberschau factory was founded by Carl Wilhelm Grimm (from 1871 part of the United Bautzner paper mills). A second paper machine with a width of 1.50 m for 2,200 thalers from Johann Jakob Widmann from Heilbronn followed as early as 1836 . A paper machine from Heilbronn was acquired for the branch in Obergurig in 1842. The mechanical engineering companies of Widmann and Gustav Schaeuffelen worked there . Fischer died of a stroke on August 10, 1842 and was buried on August 14 in the diving cemetery. Now the widow took over the management of the company until 1851 her son Carl Friedrich Adolf Fischer was old enough.

The Württemberg inventor and paper manufacturer Heinrich Voelter completed essential parts of his training at Fischer and was then brought to Bautzen as a factory director from Heidenheim an der Brenz .

His daughter Margarethe Cölestine (1830–1911) married Rudolf Thiel in 1864 .

The Fischer family grave is located in the diving cemetery in Bautzen.

Publications

  • About the use of steam to heat the ladle laid paper in the paper mills, in relation to the accompanying drawing. In: Writings and negotiations of the economic society in the Kingdom of Saxony. 6. Delivery. Dresden 1820, pp. 136–151. Digitized edition of the SLUB Dresden

literature

Web links

Wikisource: The paper factory of Carl Friedrich August Fischer in Bautzen  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Schaffhirt; Thomas Schaffhirt: The art-experienced papermaker Schaffhirt. epubli GmbH, Berlin 2015
  2. ^ Report on the exhibition of Saxon commercial products, in 1831. Arnoldische Buchhandlung, Dresden u. Leipzig 1832, p. 38.
  3. ↑ Carl Friedrich August Fischer's paper factory in Bautzen. In: Louis Oeser (Ed.): Album of the Saxon Industry. Vol. 1. Neusalza 1856, p. 30.
  4. ↑ Frieder Schmidt: From the mill to the factory. The history of paper production in the early industrialization of Württemberg and Baden. Ubstadt-Weiher 1994, p. 347.
  5. ↑ Harald Schaffhirt; Thomas Schaffhirt: The art-experienced papermaker Schaffhirt. epubli GmbH, Berlin 2015, p. 45 (photo).
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Carl Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paper manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Budissin (Bautzen)
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1842
Place of death Budissin