Carl Roth (industrialist)

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Carl Roth (born May 6, 1846 in Zweibrücken , † April 14, 1929 in Saarbrücken ) was an industrialist from Saarland .

Life

Carl Roth studied at the Polytechnic of Zurich engineering . Here he joined the Corps Rhenania in 1865 . He was the last student who became active at Rhenania before it had to be suspended because of the tightening of the dueling legislation in Zurich. From Zurich he moved to the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe and joined the Corps Franconia there.

After completing his studies, he returned to his homeland in West Palatinate and Saarland and developed as an engineer and entrepreneur into one of the personalities of the industrialization of the Saar region.

A special technical construction that went back to him was the rail fastening according to Roth & Schüler, used by the Baden State Railways since 1891 .

He was a partner in the Zweibrücker wire works Roth, Heck & Schwinn . In 1885 he became a partner in Beckinger screw works Fr. Karcher, C. Roth & Cie. He was one of the main shareholders of the Saarbrücker Stahlgusswerk founded in 1897 by Theodor Sehmer. In 1900 he founded the Homburg ironworks as a partner in the Roth & Schüler company.

The workers' houses built by Roth & Schüler on Mainzer Straße are now among the architectural monuments of the city of Homburg . At the beginning of the 20th century, Roth set up a foundation to enable the students of the Royal Provincial Trade School in Saarbrücken, today's Otto Hahn Gymnasium , to visit the German Museum in Munich.

Awards

  • For his services to industrialization, he was appointed Royal Commerce Councilor.

literature

  • 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855-2005. Braunschweig 2005.
  • Ralf Banken: The Industrialization of the Saar Region 1815-1914 . Volume 2: Take-Off Phase and High Industrialization 1850-1914

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System: Rail fastenings according to Roth & Schüler, 1891 (Baden State Railways)
  2. ^ Fritz Hellwig:  Karcher, Bodo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 143 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Von der Kleineisenzeug-Fabrik zu Acument in the Saarbrücker Zeitung from June 26, 2009
  4. ↑ Aerial photo of the Homburg ironworks on www.saar-heimat.com
  5. ↑ Tradition of the OHG
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saarland industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1929
Place of death Saarbrücken