Carl Johann Heinrich Scheibler

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Carl Johann Heinrich Scheibler (born June 19, 1852 in Krefeld , † December 12, 1920 in Cologne ) was a German fertilizer manufacturer .

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The son of the raw silk wholesaler Carl Ludwig Aurel Scheibler (1823–1905) and Anna Wilhelmine Kaibel (1827–1858), daughter of the Krefeld Chamber of Commerce President Johann Kaibel, and the grandson of the velvet and silk manufacturer Johann Heinrich Scheibler , who moved from Monschau to Krefeld, began after his school days training in the textile and clothing industry in Krefeld and Lyon . Then he got his first job in the silk factory of his relative Christoph Andreae in Mülheim am Rhein . After economic difficulties arose in the company, Scheibler moved in 1878 as authorized signatory and head of the fertilizer department at the “ Chemische Fabrik Vorster & Grüneberg Cöln ” in Kalk .

Due to private and professional contacts with his Berlin relative, the chemist Carl Bernhard Wilhelm Scheibler , he was able to deepen his knowledge in the field of fertilizer production. Among other things, he suggested that the phosphoric acid-containing "Thomas slag" stored on the heaps of the steelworks should be examined for its suitability as a fertilizer. The investigations initiated by Scheibler at the “ Agricultural Research Institute in Darmstadt ” proved the suitability of finely ground Thomas slag (“ Thomas flour ”) as a plant fertilizer. Since Thomas phosphate was a waste or by-product of the Thomas process and was extremely inexpensive for the time, this product also enabled poor farmers to fertilize their fields. After the positive decision, Scheibler began to buy large quantities of slag and built its own slag mill for the production of Thomas phosphate, which was initially spun off in 1885 as the subsidiary " C. Scheibler & Co " from the company " Vorster & Grüneberg ". Three years later, in 1888, he founded the sales company " Rheinisch-Westfälische Thomasphosphat-Fabriken AG ". Up until the First World War , the company held shares in fertilizer factories in Germany, the Benelux countries, France and Russia and expanded its product range to include superphosphate and synthetic nitrogen.

In 1902 Scheibler merged his successful company again with the company “ Vorster & Grüneberg ”, which was converted into a GmbH in 1892 and renamed “ Chemische Fabrik Kalk ”, and from then on was taken over as a shareholder entitled to inheritance. His son Hans Carl Scheibler (1887–1963) joined the Kalk Chemical Factory in 1906 after completing his training and, after his father's death in 1920, also took over the management of the fertilizer division. In 1930, the Hans Carl Scheibler and namesake was developed for the after extensive research and in the program recorded mineral fertilizers under the brand name " Scheiblerstrasse Kamp fertilizer ", where " Kamp " for " Lime Ammon phosphorus was".

Carl Johann Heinrich Scheibler had been a board member of the " Association of German Fertilizer Manufacturers " since 1888 , and he was elected President from 1906 to 1909. In 1903 he was also appointed honorary consul of the Netherlands and a year later was appointed councilor of commerce . He also worked as a co-founder of two Protestant hospitals, the Kalk hospital built by Vorster & Grüneberg and others, and the Evangelical hospital in Cologne-Weyertal.

In addition to his professional obligations, Scheibler was largely responsible for researching and writing down the history and genealogy of the Scheibler entrepreneurial family , which had gained an international reputation over a period of more than two hundred years, especially in the textile industry, as well as the most important related families. For this reason, he also acquired the left part of the Red House in 1909 , the ancestral seat of the family in Monschau, built by his ancestor Johann Heinrich Scheibler , from his cousins ​​Bernhard Heinrich Scheibler (1846–1918) and Alexander Scheibler (1850–1929) who kept the right part of the house. Here he set up the family archive, which was later continued by his son Hans Carl. This eventually led by testamentary disposal that after his death in 1963 both the Red House as a whole and the family archives to the Foundation " Scheibler-Museum Red House Monschau rededicated" and the Rhineland Regional Council in Pulheim-Brauweiler as a deposit should be transmitted.

For his various services, Carl Johann Heinrich Scheibler received the Order of the Red Eagle of the 4th class and the Knight's Cross of the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau .

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Carl Johann Heinrich Scheibler was married to Bertha Maria Emilia (Lilla) von Mallinckrodt (1856–1915), daughter of the Commerce Councilor Gustav von Mallinckrodt (1829–1904) and sister of the industrialist Gustav von Mallinckrodt . With her he had two sons and daughters, including the already mentioned Hans Carl Scheibler married to Lotte Müller (* 1894), daughter of the in Dusseldorf and Rotterdam make shipowner Gustav Henry Müller (1865-1913), a brother of the art collector Helene Kröller-Müller .

The eldest son of Hans Carl, Christoph Scheibler (1920–2010), was the orderly officer of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg during World War II and was also in industry after the war, but also became known as an artist for abstract painting . His son from his second marriage, Aurel Scheibler (* 1960), became an art historian and gallery owner and opened the "Galerie Aurel Scheibler" for contemporary art in Cologne from 1991 , which he moved to Berlin in 2006 and with which he is a regular guest at international art fairs . After the early death (1977) of his second wife, Christoph Scheibler married Elisabeth, b. Kerschbaumer (* 1927), the widow of the painter and graphic artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay , who wrote the history of the Scheibler family .

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