Carl Julius Schulz

Carl Julius Schulz

Carl Julius Schulz (born February 7, 1828 in Essen ; † July 17, 1886 there ) was a German manufacturer and industrialist . In 1855, together with the engineer Adolf Knaudt, he founded the puddling and sheet metal rolling mill Schulz, Knaudt & Cie. which later became part of the Krupp Mannesmann ironworks in Duisburg . Schulz was also President of the Chamber of Commerce.

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Tomb on the East Cemetery in Essen , the father's engraving can still be seen on the right

Carl Julius Schulz was born the son of the businessman Carl Schulz (1791–1861) in Essen. He attended the Essen Burggymnasium up to Untersekunda, after which he went to boarding school in Keilhau in Thuringia . Schulz then completed a commercial apprenticeship in Velbert from August 1, 1844 to 1846 , which was followed by a bank training in Krefeld in 1847 . Afterwards he was employed in his father's business.

In 1855 the puddling and sheet metal rolling mill Schulz, Knaudt & Cie was founded in Essen . together with the engineer Adolf Knaudt. Schulz was also involved in a number of mining companies. This was followed by the chairmanship of the city debt commission and membership in the board of trustees of the secondary school and the city's daughter schools.

Schulz was a member of the Chamber of Commerce between 1859 and 1884. In the years 1881/82 he became its vice-president and then president until 1884.

The funerals of the Schulz families and his partner Knaudt took place in the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor . In the mid-1950s, both were reburied in the Ostfriedhof in Essen, as the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor was abandoned for urban planning reasons. Schulzstrasse in Huttrop has been a reminder of him in Essen since 1897 .

literature

• Walter Döbritz: Carl Julius Schulz, the founder of the Schulz sheet rolling mill, Knaudt & Co; in Essays 46 . Ed .: Historical Association for the City and Abbey of Essen. Essen 1928, p. 279-293 .