Carl Peschke

This article deals with the SPD politician Carl Peschke. For the NSDAP politician see Karl Peschke .

Carl Anton Peschke (born July 14, 1853 in Jauer , Lower Silesia , † April 5, 1907 in Zweibrücken ) was a social democrat and founder of a construction machinery factory.

Carl Peschke (around 1900 in Zweibrücken)

Life

Oldest company sign

Carl Peschke was born as the son of the married couple Anton and Theresia Peschke, née Hantke. He was a school seminarist in Breslau and a non-commissioned officer in the hunter battalion in Zweibrücken. From 1878 he worked as an accountant for a brewery. In the same year, as a Catholic, he married the Jewish Rosina Frank from Zweibrücken, who was ten years his senior and who brought several children into the marriage. Prior marriage for members of the military was only allowed to higher ranks at the time.

In 1879 the police put him under observation for revolutionary participation as a secretary at a social democratic meeting to establish a social democratic office in Zweibrücken. An interrogation by the police revealed that he gave private lessons in writing, arithmetic, drawing and music and offered lessons for NCOs in music, shorthand, bookkeeping and topography in a daily newspaper.

In 1884 he founded the "Carl Peschke Maschinenfabrik", later Pekazett . This produced construction tools in series. In 1887, together with the engineer Bieringer and master locksmith Limbach, the "Limbach'sche tool and machine factory" was founded. Chimney doors, wheelbarrows and construction tools were manufactured in series. In 1895 the product range was expanded to include concrete mixers, construction hoists and construction equipment for building construction . At that time the factory had 6 employees.

It is known that he, who came from a large family, received donations to his family in Lower Silesia during this time. Carl Peschke is said to have been very popular among his workers. This may also be due to the fact that, like his children and their families later, he lived in the middle of the factory buildings.

In 1898 Bieringer and Peschke left the Limbach machine factory. A mechanical hammer forge was set up. The built-up area of ​​the company was 17,000 m². Before his death he paid off his premarital children at their request so that he could bequeath his life's work to the legitimate children. After his death in 1907 the children Karl, Otto and Anna as well as his children-in-law took over the machine factory.

In 1913 the company already had 130 employees after the Limbach machine factory (Erben) was bought up.

His wife Rosina survived him by 10 years.

Act

First mixing machine with cardanic suspension of the mixing drum

The Pekazett company was one of the most important German manufacturers of tower cranes. As one of the oldest crane manufacturers in Germany, the first portal tower cranes were produced shortly after the turn of the century. The company's inventions also include the cardanic suspension of mixing machine drums, the principle of which most modern mixing machines work. Up to 5,000 tower cranes from the Pekazett brand are still in use today.

literature

• Charlotte Glück-Christmann (Ed.): Zweibrücken 1783 to 1918: A long century . Bliesdruckerei, Blieskastel 2002, p. 101ff., P. 483ff.