Carl Friedrich Schmid

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Headframe of the Schmid shaft in Helbra

Carl Friedrich Schmid (born May 1, 1790 in Hettstedt ; † September 1, 1845 ) was a German trade supervisor and smelter of the Creutz, Silber and Catharinenhütte near Mansfeld and teacher at the Eisleben mountain school . A shaft that was built in 1844 in the area of ​​the former copper smelter near Helbra is named after him and is now an industrial monument.

Life

View from the Schmid shaft near Helbra to the slag dump

Schmid came from a family of Saxon scholars , originally based in Elterlein , of whom representatives had settled in Marienberg, Freiberg, Johanngeorgenstadt and Eisleben. He was the grandson of the mountain writer and counterwriter Caspar Sigismund Schmid .

Schmid worked as a smelter from 1819 and later headed the trade union of the Creutz-, Silber- and Catharinenhütte near Mansfeld. In addition, he taught part-time from 1810 to 1812 at the Westphalian Bergschule Eisleben in the subjects of mining, mathematics and drawing.

He became known in particular through his nationally distributed publication Tabular representation of the almost annual products of the mountain, metallurgical and salt nature, together with information on the forest areas in the states of Europe including the Asian. Russia , which was published by Georg Reichardt in Eisleben in 1832.

He died in 1845 at the age of 55.

Schmid shaft

The Schmid shaft is registered under the number 107 40032 in the list of cultural monuments in Helbra .

literature

  • Annals of geography, ethnology and national studies , Volume 6, 1832, p. 355.
  • Rudolf Mirsch: Family tree of the scholar family Schmid. In: Communications 43/44 of the Mansfeld Miners and Huts People Association. V., 1-2 / 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Later known as August-Bebel-Hütte.
  2. ↑ Small request from Olaf Meister (BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN) and Wolfgang Aldag (BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN) as well as answer from the State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture on February 15, 2018, printed matter 7/2453 (KA 7/1372), development of the monument register Saxony - Stop in 2017, page 19
  3. ↑ The shaft is located in the main street at the southern exit of Helbra, west of the federal highway 225 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade supervisor and smelter and teacher at the Eisleben mountain school
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Hettstedt
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1845