Eduard Sigismund Böcking

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Eduard Sigismund Böcking (born May 24, 1842 in Abentheuer ; † January 22, 1916 in Cologne-Mülheim ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur .

Life

Eduard Sigismund Böcking came from an important family of entrepreneurs in southwest Germany. His father Gustav Adolf Böcking (1812-1893) was the manager of the Böcking brothers , to which the Asbacherhütte, Graefenbacherhütte and Abentheuererhütte belonged. His grandfather was the Saarbrücken mayor Bergrat Heinrich Böcking . His great-grandfathers were the wholesaler and banker Adolf Böcking (1754–1800) and the iron industrialist Friedrich Philipp Stumm (1751–1835). His cousin was the iron industrialist Rudolf Böcking .

Böcking studied metallurgy at the Bergakademie Freiberg and the Bergakademie Berlin . In Freiberg he joined the Corps Franconia Freiberg in 1861 . He gained his first practical professional experience at Cockerill in Seraing .

In 1876 he founded the Eduard Böcking & Co. rolling mill in Cologne-Mülheim , which later became part of the Felten & Guilleaume company . Here, in 1879, he introduced hemp ropes in the drive of the roughing and finishing mills in the steel wire mill instead of the previously common gears. In 1882 he began exporting wire rod to the USA. In 1896 he built the first German continuous rolling mill for commercial wire.

In 1886 he was appointed to the supervisory board of Dillinger Hütte . In 1896 he initiated the construction of a slag mill based on Heinrich Albert's grinding process , with which the Thomas flour obtained from Thomas slag was made usable as a phosphate fertilizer for agriculture.

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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 summer semester 1985, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Böcking, Eduard Sigismund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Adventure
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1916
Place of death Cologne-Mülheim