Curt Alexander Edelmann

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Curt Alexander Edelmann (born April 27, 1841 in Bautzen , † March 6, 1907 in Oberschlema ) was a German smelter .

Life

Curt Alexander Edelmann was born as the son of the later director of the Royal Fire Insurance Commission in Dresden, the secret government councilor Carl Alexander Edelmann. In 1859 he obtained the Abitur at the grammar school in Bautzen. After an internship at Freiberg Hütten, he studied metallurgy at the Bergakademie Freiberg . In 1861 he became a member of the Corps Franconia Freiberg . In 1863 he passed the final exams with distinction and became a hut assistant at the Königliche Muldner Hütte . On January 1, 1865, he accepted a job as a smelter at the private blue paint factory in Pfannenstiel . On November 1, 1868, he was appointed metallurgical chemist and on January 1, 1873, metallurgical master. On July 1, 1892, he was appointed director of the Royal Blue Color Works Oberschlema as the successor to Oberbergrat Otto Friedrich Köttig and appointed mining and commercial representative of the Saxon blue color works consortium.

He was the authorized mining representative for the Schneeberg mining consortium, a long-time member of the Scheibenberg mining district committee and a member of the board of the trade association for the chemical industry , Leipzig section.

In more than 41 years as a member of the Saxon blue paint factory consortium, Edelmann has decisively developed the Saxon blue paint system. These include the electrowinning , the wet-chemical nickel recovery , the flue gas cleaning by condensation systems related to the extraction of metal-containing flue dust . In addition, he was committed to the welfare of the workers. Edelmann was considered to be one of the outstanding personalities of the Saxon blue color system.

Since May 1870 he was married to Elisabeth Merbach, daughter of the superintendent Merbach in Freiberg.

Awards

  • Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Albrecht
  • Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Saxon Order of Civil Merit
  • Appointment to the secret mountain ridge, 1901

Fonts

  • Review of the history of the Royal Saxon Blue Color Works in Oberschlema . In: Yearbook for mining and metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony, year 1901

literature

  • Wishes: Curt Alexander Edelmann † . In: Yearbook for Mining and Metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony, year 1907 , pp. 3–5 (with picture; digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corps list Corps Franconia in Freiberg, Saxony, March 5, 1838 to October 27, 1935, and Corps Franconia Fribergensis in Aachen since November 28, 1953, as of the 1985 summer semester, p. 7, No. 103
personal data
SURNAME Edelmann, Curt Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nobleman, Carl Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German smelter
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1907
Place of death Upper scheme