Carl Röchling (industrialist)

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Carl Röchling

Carl Röchling (* 25. February 1827 in Saarbrücken , † 26. May 1910 ) was a German Montan - entrepreneurs .

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After attending grammar school in Saarbrücken, the son of a doctor completed an apprenticeship at the ironworks Karcher & Westermann in Metz , worked in Rotterdam and Le Havre and then became a partner in the coal and banking business C. Schmidtborn in Saarbrücken, which later evolved the company Gebr. Röchling developed. Röchling built the blast furnace in Pont-à-Mousson together with the Haldy brothers in the mid-1850s , founded the coke oven in Altenwald in 1852 and the gas factory in Saargemünd in 1860 .

In 1857 Carl Röchling married Alwine Vopelius . As a dowry, his wife received shares in the Hostenbach mine , which initially belonged to the Vopelius family. Carl took over management a short time later and was sole managing director from 1899 . The mine was then owned by the Röchling family, who used the coal for iron and steel production.

In 1881 he acquired the ironworks in Völklingen , which was expanded as a puddling and welding plant. In 1883 the first blast furnace was put into operation; The production of coke began in 1886 . Röchling had the Thomas steelworks built in 1890, and the Karlshütte near Diedenhofen in 1898 .

Carl and Alwine Röchling's marriage resulted in 14 children, including Hermann Röchling (1872–1955). On the Saarbrücken Triller , Carl Röchling had the builder Rahfeld build a villa and his own grave chapel in neo-Gothic style. In addition to Carl Röchling, 22 members of his family have been buried in the chapel to date.

literature

  • Ralf Banken:  Röchling, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 703 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Richard Nutzinger: Karl Röchling (1827–1910). In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien , Volume 1. Aschendorff, Münster 1931, pp. 139–159.
  • Richard Nutzinger: Karl Röchling. The life's work of a major industrialist. Gebr. Hofer AG, Völklingen / Saarbrücken 1927.
  • DR Nutzinger: The Röchling house in Ludwigshafen A. Rh. 1849-1929 , pictures from family, local and economic history. Book printing company Julius Waldkirch & Cie, Ludwigshafen A. Rh. 1929.

Web links

Commons : Carl Röchling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Magazine of the Röchling Group 3/2002 ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 15, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Röchling, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Röchling, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German coal and steel entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1910
Place of death Saarbrücken