Erasmus Schindler

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Erasmus Schindler (born May 29, 1608 in Schneeberg ; † September 12, 1673 ibid) was an Erzgebirge merchant, entrepreneur and founder of the Schindler blue paint factory on the Zwickauer Mulde .

Life

The son of the Steigers and Schneeberg citizen Michael Schindler grew up in a miner's family. Little is known about his youth and education. Presumably he received a higher education. later he worked as a trader and mining trade on shafts in his hometown. In addition, he was a co-counterparty to the Kobald contract . It is believed that he was able to acquire the secret process knowledge for the production of cobblue in the turmoil of the Thirty Years War. On 23 February 1649 he bought from the Zschorlauer village judge Hans George for 75 guilders a parcel on the former Zinnseifengrund at the Zwickau Dell, which at this time to Freigut Albernaubelonged to. Immediately after receiving the electoral concession from May 4, 1649, he began building a blue color work that still after him as Schindler MOORISH Blue Color Works or as Schindler factory is called. As a capable specialist , he himself worked in color production and built up a profitable factory . It is isolated from the surrounding villages of Albernau, Sosa , Bockau and Zschorlau. On September 7, 1650, he was also given the privilege of building a mine, a blacksmith's shop and houses for the workers, so that a small settlement was created. Furthermore, he was granted the lower jurisdiction. He became a counterpart to Kobald , as he is called in contemporary writings.

Shortly after the start of his work, he entered the as 1653 Fixed hand with cobalt contract designated, in which the amount of auszubringenden from mines cobalt ore , the potash and the equal distribution to the erzgebirgischen color mills in Jugel , low Pfannenstiel , Sehma , Oberschlema and Albernau was determined .

The paint mill founded by Schindler continues to exist as an ultramarine factory Schindlerswerk Sächsisches Blaufarbenwerk GmbH .

family

Schindler married Maria Sörling from Schafstedt in Thuringia in 1630. He had seven sons and three daughters and was married to his wife for 40 years. After her death in 1671 he married Maria, the widow of Musicus Instrumentalis Christoph Ernst, who outlived him by 24 years.

literature

  • Auer Employment Initiative (Ed.): Small Chronicle of Great Masters Vol. 3, Aue, 2003, pp. 21-27
  • Christian Meltzer : Historia Schneebergensis renovata , 1716
  • Friedrich Weiß: Erasmus Schindler, the founder of Schindler's blue color factory in Albernau. In: Glückauf No. 8/1938
  • The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, pp. 93–95.
  • George Körner : Brief historical news from the Freyguthe Albernau and Schindlerisch blue color works on the Mulde near Schneeberg in the Meissnian Upper Ore Mountains , 1763 ( digitized in the SLUB Dresden )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, p. 94.
personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Erasmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and blue color gentleman
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1608
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneeberg
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1673
Place of death Schneeberg