Carl Friedrich Stumm

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Carl Friedrich Stumm (born January 10, 1798 in Abentheuer ; † February 24, 1848 in Neunkirchen ) was a Prussian entrepreneur in the coal and steel industry .

Carl Friedrich Stumm, painting by Louis Krevel from 1836, in the background the factory in Neunkirchen
Marie-Luise Stumm born Böcking, painting by Louis Krevel from 1835, the house in the background

Life

He came from the mining industrial family Stumm . The father was Friedrich Philipp Stumm and the mother Maria Elisabeth (née Geib). In 1802 the father Friedrich Philipp Stumm moved to Saarbrücken and in 1806 founded the mining company Gebrüder Stumm together with his brothers in Saarbrücken .

Carl Friedrich completed a metallurgical training at the Bergakademie Freiberg from 1818 and in Berlin from 1820 .

Carl Friedrich joined the family business in 1825 and worked in the Neunkirchen ironworks . After the death or retirement of his two brothers in 1828, the father took over the management of the company alone and the son participated in it. At this time the father held 5/6 and the son 1/6 of the shares.

Carl Friedrich had been interested in the new puddling process since 1824 . After a trip to Wales to visit modern plants, the company introduced the puddling process in 1829, initially on a trial basis and from 1833 onwards in continuous operation. Carl Friedrich was one of the driving forces behind the introduction of the new production process in the Saar district. In some cases his very cost-intensive innovative investment activity was inhibited by his father until his death.

In 1834 he married Marie Luise Böcking (1813–1864). In doing so, he consolidated the relationship between the Stumms and the Böcking family. Good relations with the Prussian royal family were also associated with the marriage. The marriage had eight children.

After his father's death in 1835, the works in the Hunsrück fell to his son-in-law Heinrich Böcking . However, the cooperation between the two brothers-in-law remained very close. Carl Friedrich got the works on the Saar, including the one in Neunkirchen. There the operation was finally switched from charcoal to hard coal. Steam engines were also used from 1836.

The family moved from Saarbrücken to Neunkirchen in a representative manor house in 1839. Since 1837 he therefore had an extensive landscape garden with grottoes, a private cemetery, a Swiss plant and other components laid out. In 1844 he had a cast-iron stele erected in memory of his ancestors. A second cast iron stele adorns the family's private cemetery. After his death, his widow continued to expand the park and had a chapel built. The steles and the Stumm chapel are early evidence of the neo-Gothic style in the Saar district.

Carl Friedrich hired Ferdinand Steinbeis as director in 1842 . Stumm was primarily responsible for the commercial area, while Steinbeis took care of technical development. This was the driving force behind further technical innovations and social improvements. In 1844 the company acquired large ore fields on the Lahn . In 1847 a new large rolling mill was built. As a major shareholder, Mute also controlled Dillinger Hütte .

He has had health problems in recent years. At the beginning of 1848 he took on his wife's brother, Carl Bernhard Böcking (1815–1895), as a partner in the company. In the same year he committed suicide. Economic problems during the current economic crisis, family or health reasons played a role. His wife probably had a relationship with the children's tutor, Heinrich Hodler, whom she later married. At his death Carl Friedrich had a fortune of over a million thalers . The widow Marie Luise (née Böcking) handed over management of the company to her brother Carl Bernhard Böcking. Later the eldest son Carl Ferdinand Stumm took over the management. The siblings benefited from the income as silent partners.

Children from the marriage with Marie Luise geb. Böcking:

literature

  • Ralf Banken: The industrialization of the Saar region 1815–1914. Volume 1: The early industrialization 1815–1850 (= regional industrialization. Volume 1). Steiner, Stuttgart, 2000, ISBN 3-515-07324-8 (also: Frankfurt am Main, University, dissertation, 1997).
  • Richard van Dülmen and Joachim Jacob (eds.): Stumm in Neunkirchen, entrepreneurship and working-class life in the 19th century, pictures and sketches from an industrial community, St. Ingbert 1993.
  • Christof Trepesch (Hrsg.): Culture of the Biedermeier. The painter Louis Krevel. Wernersche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Worms 2001, ISBN 3-88462-175-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Historic Association of the City of Neunkirchen: http://www.dufner-genealogie.de/stumm/frameset.htm , accessed on July 15, 2015.