Carl Ludwig Wesenfeld
Carl Ludwig Wesenfeld (born March 30, 1851 in Barmen (now part of Wuppertal ), † December 21, 1876 in Falkenstein im Taunus ) was a German industrialist and inventor . He is considered to be the inventor of the "German" corrugated iron .
life and work
Family and education
Carl Ludwig Wesenfeld jun. was the sixth child of a Barmer factory owner and Royal Prussian Commerce Councilor , who also bore the name Carl Ludwig Wesenfeld, and his wife Wilhelmine Schniewind. The university professor Arnold Wesenfeld was his direct ancestor, a half-brother was the politician Paul Wesenfeld . On August 18, 1868, Carl Ludwig passed his Abitur in Barmen and then studied chemistry in Zurich and Aachen . He served as a one-year volunteer in Potsdam , but was released after three months due to an acute lung disease . In the campaign of 1870/71 he took part as a nurse . Wesenfeld died only 25-year-old in a sanatorium in the Taunus to exhaustion .
Manufacturer and inventor
With the invention of corrugated iron, Wesenfeld created a prerequisite for the worldwide distribution and application of this technology both as a building material and in mechanical engineering due to its specific properties (wave height greater than half the wave width). “A certain reluctance to use his father's funds for it, perhaps also a somewhat romantic view, prevented him from applying for a patent, and so it soon became common property and opened the way for a widespread industry around the world ". He used his invention in the "Berliner Stahlblech-Rolljalouisien-Fabrik" which he founded for this purpose (later "Hein, Lehmann & Co.").
Poet and playwright
In addition to his professional activity, the art-loving Wesenfeld was already active as a playwright during his student days . He was a member of the Barmer association “Frühling”, which organized lectures and readings in the field of literature, music, art, ideology and politics and published the magazine “Barmer Contributions to the Pleasure of Mind and Joke”. He was also a member of the "German Cooperative of Dramatic Authors and Composers". He published the dramas Saat und Harvest (Elberfeld 1868), Rebekka am Brunnen (CH Georgi, Aachen 1871), Hohenstein (CH Georgi, Aachen 1871) as well as Bazaire and his nephew or the Fall of Metz (CH Georgi, Aachen 1872).
Sources and literature
- Ernst Walter Röhrig: On the history of the Wesenfeld family . Volume I., Barmen 1929, pp. 70-74
- Patent of Martin Georg Mitter and Carl Ludwig Wesenfeld jun. in Berlin on a process for the production of a peculiar sheet metal "carrier plate" and on the machine used for this , Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Department State Archive Ludwigsburg, E 170 in the German Digital Library , accessed on April 1, 2014
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Darmstaedter: Handbook on the history of natural sciences and technology. In chronological representation. 2nd, revised and enlarged edition. Singer, Berlin 1908, p. 735, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ernst Walter Röhrig: On the history of the Wesenfeld family . Volume I., Barmen 1929, p. 74
- ↑ Röhrig, pp. 71f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wesenfeld, Carl Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barmen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1876 |
| Place of death | Falkenstein , Taunus |