Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Lindig
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Lindig (born August 23, 1779 in Groß Kamsdorf ; † March 4, 1852 in Zauckerode ) was a German mining pioneer and inventor of coal washing .
Life
Lindig was born as the son of the mountain jury Georg Wilhelm Lindig and Juliane Margarethe Lindig in Groß Kamsdorf near Saalfeld, then part of Saxony. From 1797 to 1801 he attended the Bergakademie in Freiberg together with Herder , Novalis and von Beust . He was at the geognostic under Abraham Gottlob Werner . State investigation involved. On May 10, 1804, Lindig got a job as a coal factory factor at the Döhlener and Zaucker or hard coal works of the Chamberlain von Schönberg. Before that, he had already worked as an interim shift supervisor at the Leopold Erbstolln mountain building in Niederhermsdorf . In 1806, after the establishment of the Royal Saxon Coal Works in Plauenschen Grund, he took over its local administration. On November 14, 1806, he married Johann Friedrich Lempe's daughter , Johanna Caroline Wilhelmina Dorothee, in Freiberg Cathedral . Lindig died on March 4, 1852 in Zauckerode. He left behind nine children (seven sons, two daughters) and was buried in the cemetery of the St. Jakobus Church in Pesterwitz at the point where the deep Elbstolln crosses the cemetery. The original grave complex is no longer preserved in the local cemetery, but the location is marked by a memorial stone.
Services
In 1804 Lindig founded the first functioning miners' fund in the Saxon coal mining industry at the Döhlener and Zauckeroder works. After experiments on the river Wiederitz , Lindig succeeded in 1810 with the groundbreaking invention of wet coal processing ( coal washing ), a process that is now widespread worldwide. The cause were the large stocks of hard-to-sell lime coals. On September 8, 1810, Lindig was able to report to the mountain ridge of Oppel “ ... I have long thought of a means not only to clean these coals from mountains and the earthy parts attached by the pit water and thereby to renew them, as it were, but also to renew them inevitably to be separated from the lime coals with clear forged coals that are being mined, and I now believe that I am so happy to have found this means in the well-known, simple preparation work, in sieving, since in this work everything is separated according to its specific gravity, so the forged coal remains , as the lightest at the top, and the actual lime-coal separates itself in the middle, while the mountains partly settle on the ground, partly they pass through the sieve as sludge. “As a result, the world's first coal washing plant was built in Zauckerode. He also founded a miners' settlement, today's Unterweißig, for miners who were mainly recruited from Johanngeorgenstadt . Under Lindig line of more than 6 kilometers long, was 1817-1836 deep Elbstolln between Zauckerode and the same in Cotta ascended. Due to his far-sighted, innovative decisions, the Königliche Steinkohlenwerk Zauckerode developed from humble beginnings into one of the most modern and socially progressive coal mines in Germany. The first steam engine in the Saxon mining industry on May 4, 1820 in the Zauckeroder Kunstschacht , the Oppelschacht , Mehnerschacht and the plans for the Königin-Carola-Schächte also go back to his work.
Honors
In 1836 he was awarded the Gold Civil Merit Medal by King Friedrich August II (Saxony) for his services . In Freital -Döhlen today, Wilhelm-Lindig-Strasse commemorates the mining pioneer.
literature
- Heinrich Hartung: Memorandum to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Zauckerode Royal Coal Works . In: C. Menzel (Hrsg.): Yearbook for mining and metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony . Born in 1906. Freiberg 1906, A. Treatises from the field of mining and metallurgy, p. 3–128, panels I + II, general plan (unpaginated) ( tu-freiberg.de [PDF; 48.0 MB ; accessed on February 10, 2014]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Lindig: Letter to Carl Wilhelm von Oppel regarding the invention of coal washing . In: Mining protocol at the Royal Saxon Coal Works in Plauenschen Grund for the year 1810 . 1810, p. 206 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lindig, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mining pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gross Kamsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1852 |
| Place of death | Zauckerode |