Eduard Oehler

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Portrait of the Offenbach industrialist Eduard Oehler
Villa Oehler, Offenbach, Mainstr. 159
Grave of Eduard Oehler (1837–1909), Offenbach Old Cemetery

Eduard Oehler (* 13. June 1837 in Aarau , † the 30th May 1909 in Bern ) was an out of Switzerland originating Offenbacher industrialist .

Life

Eduard (Heinrich) Oehler was born as the son of the Aarau canton teacher and later Offenbach tar paint manufacturer Karl Gottlieb Reinhard Oehler , who came from Frankfurt am Main and was naturalized in Switzerland in 1826, and the Aarau civil servant daughter Louise Jaeger. After attending the Aarau Cantonal School and the marriage of the founder's daughter, he studied chemistry at the Zurich Polytechnic from 1856 , where he joined the Corps Rhenania . After completing his studies, he went to Paris to study science and technology. There he got to know the tar colors and their representation.

After his return from France, he joined the Sellsche tar paint factory in Offenbach am Main, which his father had taken over in 1850. At that time, it produced tar products such as soot , car grease and creosote . In a major fire in the summer of 1857, he suffered life-threatening burns. The scars marked his face all his life.

When his father left the business in 1870, he and his brother Karl, whom he later paid off, continued to run the K. Oehler Anilin- und Anilinfarbenfabrik Offenbach. From modest, workshop-like beginnings, it had developed into a medium-sized company with over 500 workers and around 100 technical and commercial employees. The product portfolio was expanded to include new dyes such as alizarin , water blue and indigo .

He was a member of the Society of German Chemists, in whose membership directory he was listed for the company K. Oehler in Offenbach without an academic degree. Because of his business success he was called the Blue King of Offenbach.

In the middle of 1905 the plant was sold by the owners to the chemical factory Griesheim-Elektron for 2 million marks .

His factory owner's villa in Offenbach, Mainstrasse 159, constructed in 1873 by his cousin Jaeger, a relative of his mother Louise Jaeger, has been preserved. It was recently extensively renovated and is privately owned. He also took on his son-in-law Ferdinand Boehm as a partner and enabled him to build an imposing factory owner's villa in Offenbach, Körnerstraße 48. On August 20, 1902, Eduard Oehler bought the villa "Schönörtli" near Oberhofen am Thunersee, which he often shared with his family inhabited, a strip of lake beach above Oberhofen from the canton of Bern.

He had seven children with his first wife, Elise Zeller. After her early death at the age of 41, at the age of 66 on September 22, 1903 in Freiburg im Breisgau, he married the 35 years younger Russian dancer Viktoria Budzbanowska (1874–1943) from Świecie, with whom he had another child, Rudolf Joachim Oehler (born October 23, 1908), fathered. He died six years after his second wedding. His son Eduard Hans Oehler (born February 18, 1881 in Offenbach; † July 7, 1941 in Heppenheim) was an explorer, plant collector, African explorer and, together with Fritz Klute, first climber of Mawenzi.

MP

In 1896 Eduard Oehler was appointed a member for life of the First Chamber of the State Parliament of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . In 1907 he resigned.

Services to the common good

Eduard Oehler was involved in the welfare and the promotion of science and art. In 1907 he made a donation to the Ludwig University of Giessen for purchases in the field of chemistry. He belonged to the Senckenberg Natural Research Society since 1906, and from 1908 as a working member.

He bought a house in Rödernstrasse for the Alice Women's Association and thus supported the work of the Protestant sisters. As a posthumous gift for his first deceased wife, he set up the Elise Oehler Foundation, thereby enabling the construction of the Bieber-Bürgel toddler school, a youth care center and a hospital for poor Offenbach children.

In his will he considered the Aarau Cantonal School, the Zurich Polytechnic and other educational institutions he had attended for the purchase of teaching materials.

Honors

  • For his services to the common good, Eduard Oehler was appointed Privy Councilor of Commerce .
  • Eduard-Oehler-Straße in Offenbach am Main was named after him.

literature

  • Nature and Museum , 40th report of the Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, 1909, pp. 61–64. Digitized
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 645.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 284.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Meyer: Oehler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855–2005. Braunschweig 2005, p. 296.
  3. ↑ Reinhold Gries: House of City History Offenbach plans industrial department. In: op-online.de. March 1, 2012, accessed June 28, 2016 .
  4. ^ Reports of the German Chemical Society in Berlin , list of members as of January 1, 1878
  5. ^ Reports of the German Chemical Society in Berlin , list of members as of January 1, 1883
  6. ↑ Picture of the villa of his son-in-law and partner in the tar paint factory Oehler Ferdinand Boehm, Offenbach, Körnerstraße 48
  7. ↑ Villa Schönörtli in Oberhofen AG
  8. ^ [The widow Viktoria Oehler-Budzbanowska concluded a land contract with the State of Bern on April 2, 1936]
  9. ↑ The life of Dr. Eduard Oehler
  10. ↑ Doctorate No. 1973 ETH Zurich of son Rudolf Joachim Oehler (* 23 October 1908)
  11. ^ Bernhard Friedmann: Sponsors, patrons, donors in the history of the university library . Festschrift of the University of Giessen, 2007, p. 278 (PDF; 613 kB)
  12. ↑ Eduard-Oehler-Strasse in the Offenbach city map
personal data
SURNAME Oehler, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Offenbach industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1909
Place of death Bern