Carl Gustav Rommenhöller

Portrait medallion of Carl Gustav Rommenhöller, section of the bronze plaque on the Rommenhöller monument in Herste

Carl Gustav Rommenhöller (born March 16, 1853 in Geldern ; † April 10, 1931 in The Hague ) was a German entrepreneur and pioneer of the carbon dioxide industry that expanded at the end of the 19th century . He founded the company Kohlensäurewerke C. G. Rommenhöller , which is known colloquially for short as “Rommenhöllerwerke”, and up to 1926 a total of 40 carbon dioxide plants at various locations in Europe and Africa , including numerous carbon dioxide bubbles and storage facilities.

Life

Born in Geldern in 1853, Rommenhöller acquired the Victoria Mineralbrunnen in Oberlahnstein in 1881 . By Rommenhöller and his company Rommenhöller & Co. five years later, in 1886, the patent of Wilhelm Carl Raydt on "A process and apparatus to impregnate, lift and throw water using drip liquid carbonic acid" (liquefaction of carbonic acid ; Carbon dioxide , CO ₂ ) the process could be used in general. This led to a significant expansion of the industrial extraction and processing of carbon dioxide.

In 1894, Rommenhöller opened up the Westfalia-Sprudel in Herste (today a district of Bad Driburg ) and built a plant for carbon dioxide processing on site that still exists there today and is now part of Linde AG . At that time the Westfalia-Sprudel supplied large parts of the German Empire with carbonic acid. In the immediate vicinity, other hot springs were drilled and used, including the large Carl Gustav hot spring, drilled in 1925 and named after Rommenhöller.

In the Rhineland-Palatinate spa town of Bad Breisig, Rommenhöller GmbH drilled the Ludgerussprudel at the beginning of the 20th century, which has been officially recognized as a healing spring since the 1960s and is still mainly used to produce CO ₂ .

Honors

During his lifetime, the Technical University of Berlin appointed Rommenhöller Dr.-Ing. honorary . In the Netherlands he was appointed Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau and in 1889 the Royal Romanian Consul General in Rotterdam. The Eggegebirgsverein based in Bad Driburg made Rommenhöller an honorary member in 1927.

Inscription "The founder of the carbon dioxide industry" on the Rommenhöller monument

One year after his death in 1932, the Rommenhöller memorial was inaugurated above the Carl-Gustav-Sprudel on the southern outskirts of Herste in North Rhine-Westphalia . This carries u. a. the inscription "The founder of the carbon dioxide industry".

Publications

• Carl Gustav Rommenhöller: Greater Romania, its economic, social, financial and political structure, especially its riches. Berlin, Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1926.

Web links

Commons : Carl Gustav Rommenhöller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Carl Gustav Rommenhöller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Expressionist memorial commemorates the carbon dioxide pioneer Rommelhöller. LWL honors small central building as monument of the month. Press release, April 2008.
2. ↑ ^{a b Regional} Association Westphalia-Lippe: Stations in the history of industry and technology in East Westphalia-Lippe. Rommenhöller memorial. ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Christian Hoebel, Imme Wittkamp: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Monument of the month April 2008. The Rommenhöller memorial in Bad Driburg-Herste.
4. ↑ Eurammon, Initiative for natural refrigerants: Carbon dioxide - CO ₂ - R 744 (carbonic acid). To the story of an interesting subject. (PDF; 61 kB) eurammon information No. 11 / March 2002.
5. ↑ ^{a b} www.breisig.de: themed tour "Sources and hot springs in Bad Breisig".  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ State Office for Geology and Mining Rhineland-Palatinate: Locations of geothermal use in Rhineland-Palatinate - in operation (status: December 2006).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 176 kB)  
7. ^ Eggegebirgsverein: Association - honorary members. ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.