Christoph Conrad Weinmeister

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Christoph Conrad Serafin Weinmeister (born May 10, 1810 in Spital am Pyhrn ; † June 11, 1871 ) was an Austrian scythe manufacturer and industrialist.

Christoph Weinmeister was the second of three sons of the scythe factory Gottlieb II. Serafin Weinmeister and his wife Caecilia M. Anna Seraphina Weinmeister, geb. Zeitlinger was born at the scythe factory on the front Hasenberg (today “Lindenhof”) in Spital am Pyhrn.

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Christoph Conrad Weinmeister with his wife Josefa and children Carl and Theresia, around 1838 ( FX Bobleter )

On May 3, 1831, Christoph Weinmeister married Josefa Serafina Moser, who also came from a trade family, and took over the scythe factory on May 15 that year in Micheldorf . In 1845 he inherited the Wasserleith scythe factory in Sankt Marein near Knittelfeld with extensive land and forest holdings from his uncle of the same name . The nearby Pranckh Castle also belonged to the extensive legacy of the Wasserleith trade fair . Christoph Weinmeister then handed over his scythe factory in Micheldorf to his brother Michl Weinmeister in 1846 and took over the management of the Wasserleith scythe factory.

As early as 1851 he had doubled the scythe production of his company through consistent technical innovation and modernization. For the first time, he successfully used mineral coal as fuel instead of the then common charcoal . Numerous international prizes and recognitions followed, starting with the Paris World Exhibition in 1855 . All of his company's exhibits were included in the collection of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers at the end of the world exhibition . Annual production more than quadrupled from 36,000 to 160,000 units. In 1873, shortly after Weinmeister's death, 80 employees produced around 200,000 scythes a year.

Christoph Weinmeister was an important champion of the introduction of an effective factory trademark protection has been achieved, a goal that Austrian with the first Trademark Act of 1858 and subsequent international trademark protection agreement at least partially.

Because of his services to Austrian industry, Weinmeister was awarded the golden cross of merit with the crown.

His marriage to Josefa Moser had 13 children. The sons Franz , Gottlieb and Michael Weinmeister took over the Wasserleith together. The other children married, if possible, appropriately "in the guild": The daughters Theresia and Anna Weinmeister married - one after the other - the Caspar Zeitlinger scythe factory in Blumau . Rosine Weinmeister married a brother of Caspar Zeitlinger, the Sensengewerke Ludwig Zeitlinger in Schmiedleithen . Carl Weinmeister in turn married a sister of Caspar and Ludwig Zeitlinger, Josefine Zeitlinger , and became a scythe at Oberhaindl in Micheldorf.

Works

  • Christoph Weinmeister: Collected data on the usefulness and necessity of company and trade mark protection. In: Negotiations of the Lower Austrian Trade Association. Vienna 1856, p. 64, Google Books .

honors and awards

  • Medal of honor of the General German Industry Exhibition in Munich (1854)
  • Gold medal for the exhibition of products from agriculture, forestry, mining, metallurgy, industry and art in Graz (1870)

literature

Web links

Commons : Christoph Conrad Weinmeister  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austria: newspaper for trade and commerce, public buildings and means of transport. Volume 1854, Issue 2, Google Books .
  2. ^ Report on the General Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition in Paris in 1855. P. 113, Google Books .
  3. ^ Report on the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867. P. 117, Google Books .
  4. ^ Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für Berg- und Hüttenwesen . December 12, 1870, p. 387, Google Books .
personal data
SURNAME Weinmeister, Christoph Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinmeister, Christoph Conrad Serafin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian scythe manufacturer and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Spital am Pyhrn
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1871