Christian Gottlieb Wellner

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Wellner's family crypt in the municipal cemetery

Christian Gottlieb Wellner (born February 9, 1795 in Bermsgrün ; † August 5, 1857 in Aue ) was an industrial pioneer in Aue. In 1840 he founded his own production facility for nickel silver, which was first also called Argentan or Alpacca , in addition to the existing company Neusilberschmelze und Walzwerk of Ernst August Geitner in the municipality of Auerhammer near Aue . Wellner profiled the factory as a factory for spoons and other sheet metal products.

Life

As a young boy, Christian Gottlieb Wellner found work in Aue, first as a miner and forest worker, later in the blue paint factory of the Unger brothers . There he met the chemist Ernst August Geitner and dealt with the material Argentan developed by Geitner and its production. Wellner soon married and had the children Carl August Wellner (1824–1909), Christian Gottlieb Wellner (junior) (1831) and five daughters. Wellner died in 1857 at the age of 62 and was buried in the St. Nicolai parish cemetery , today's municipal cemetery .

Establishment of cutlery factories

The new material, initially called argentan or alpacca , consists of 20 percent nickel , 55 percent copper and 25 percent tin . It could be obtained cheaply from the waste products of the blue paint works and proved to be easy to process. Wellner was so fascinated by this Argentan that he decided to start his own production. With the help of his brother, the chief smelter Friedrich Gustav, he acquired the Zainhammer in 1835 , part of the Auer hammer . He set up a foundry and a rolling mill here and began manufacturing argentan ingots in 1840. At first Wellner only employed his own family members, but was able to make a living from the sales of the products. Soon he bought a neighboring tin and silver smelter and also had a sheet rolling mill set up here. The sheets were in the factory Gürtlerei further processed to lids for tobacco pipes , floor fittings and clamps . Now the Argentanfabrik got permanent workers and trained specialists. - When his daughter Erdmuthe married Carl Friedrich Hutschenreuther , who had moved from Thuringia , the young family founded their own company ( C. F. Hutschenreuther & Co., factory for Alpacca and Alpacca silver-plated tableware ). She also began making Argentan household items in the former New Mill in the same municipality. - The experience of the spoon-plate forge based in the Ore Mountains led Christian Gottlieb Wellner to have spoons and bowls made from nickel silver, which he was able to sell, from 1854 on. The company founder died after three successful years.

The eldest son Carl August, now a master carpenter, came into his inheritance after three years of wandering in 1858 and took over the smelter with its finished goods factory . His brother Christian Gottlieb junior had inherited the foundry with belting . Both now produced table cutlery and other metal products as sole proprietors (Christian Gottlieb under the name GoWe ) without appearing as competitors. Carl August Wellner eventually developed his company into Wellner , a company that exported all over the world and existed in Aue until 1990.

Honor

In 1905, the city administration recognized the entrepreneurial commitment of the Wellner dynasty and named today's Industriestrasse in Wellnerstrasse .

swell

  • Information from Jana Hecker, press spokeswoman for the city of Aue, from May 2009

literature

  • City administration Aue (Ed.): Aue. The mosaic of history. Mike Rockstroh printer and publisher, Aue 1997
  • VEB Halbzeugwerk Auerhammer (publisher): Nickel silver - the basis for the development of VEB Halbzeugwerk Auerhammer in the VEB mining and smelting combine "Albert Funk" Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the invention of nickel silver. Volksdruckerei, Aschersleben 1973.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ : eprosa - magazine of Stadtwerke Aue GmbH , No. 01/2009: From the history of Auer cutlery production
  2. ↑ view of old pipe lids; Retrieved on June 5, 2009 ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pages.ebay.ch
  3. ^ GoWe in an advertisement , accessed August 2, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Wellner, Christian Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wellner, Christian Gottlieb (senior)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Berms green
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1857
Place of death Aue