Eduard Knobel

Eduard Knobel (born March 6, 1801 in London , † October 4, 1870 in St. Louis ) was a German coal and steel industrialist and entrepreneur in Bergisch Gladbach .

Life

It is not known when and how Knobel came to Germany. In the 1830s, Knobel had the property of the old moated castle on Lerbach rebuilt in a classicist style. In 1834 Knobel acquired the entire Lerbach estate . Later (the exact date is not known) it was inherited by Anna Zanders' nephew Hermann von Siemens; Since then, the estate and castle have been owned by the von Siemens family . In 1836, Knobel and Amalia Dümmler founded a family in 1836, their second marriage, which resulted in eight children. Knobel was one of the pioneers who pushed the economic development in Bergisch Gladbach forward in the early phase of industrialization . In 1850 he left the budding city again. It is not known where he went.

Entrepreneurship

After the death of Johann Wilhelm Zanders, his widow Julie Zanders leased the Schnabelsmühle paper mill to Knobel and his partner Ferdinand Wachendorff from 1836 to 1848 . As a legal representative of the Britannia union, he was involved in the construction and operation of the Britannia works in 1846 . On behalf of the aforementioned trade union, he acquired Mutscheine , which delayed the award of the mines Grube Albert , Grube Bertha , Grube Eduard & Amalia , Grube Glückzu , Grube Jungfrau , Grube Selma and Grube .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Gerhard Geurts : Eduard Knobel - Landowner von Haus Lerbach, its importance for Gladbach in the early phase of industrialization , in: Heimat between Sülz and Dhünn, history and folklore in Bergisch Gladbach and the surrounding area, issue 14, editor and publisher: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg e. V., Bergisch Gladbach 2007, page 27 ff.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Herbert Stahl (editor): Gronau, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-932326-51-6 , p. 178