Carl Julius Winter

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Carl Julius Winter

Carl Julius Winter junior (* 1855 in Unna ; † July 2, 1914 in Kamen ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Winter was born as the son of the boiler maker of the same name and later machine manufacturer for deep drilling equipment Carl Julius Winter. In 1886 he took over his father's deep drilling company and relocated the company headquarters to Kamen "right next to the new Kamen train station".

On February 13, 1894, together with Heinrich Grimberg and August Borsig , he founded the drilling company "Wintershall" in Bochum . The company successfully drilled for potash salts near Heringen on the Werra . With this, Winter shifted the drilling activity from hard coal to other minerals , especially potash salts.

In 1898 he had a representative villa built in neo-renaissance style right next to his work.

The mining trade union "Wintershall" emerged from the drilling company and developed into today's crude oil and natural gas producer Wintershall GmbH . In 1906, Winter succeeded in freezing salt water in shafts for the first time.

In 1905 the end of the company was near. Due to a calculation error and an unsuccessful large well, the company suffered great losses, which even led to the cessation of operations on April 1, 1914. Julius Winter committed suicide on July 2, 1914, exactly six days before the bankruptcy opening, in the library of his villa in Kamen.

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Individual evidence

  1. "Hall" is an outdated word for salt, salt storage, salt mining and salt trade.
  2. Monument Neo-Renaissance Villa Lechleitner