Ernst Leybold

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Ernst Leybold (born November 17, 1824 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , † February 10, 1907 in Cologne ) was a Cologne entrepreneur who is considered a pioneer of vacuum technology .

Career

His father Johann Sebastian Leybold (1791–1876) was a wholesaler for land supplies and with Sabine geb. Renger (1790–1866) married. Her son Ernst left Rothenburg in 1846 at the age of 22 and started working for the freight forwarding company Gustav Böcker in Cologne as a clerk . He rented his home with Martin Kothe, who ran a wine and pharmacy shop. Leybold has been running an agency for coffee imports and colonial goods since 1850. After his landlord died unexpectedly in 1851, he took over the management on behalf of the business-inexperienced widow Kothe in May 1851 and renamed the company "Leybold & Kothe" as a co-partner, which now concentrated on the sale of physical and technical devices. As early as 1862, his devices were "highly recommended" in the specialist literature. Since March 1863 the company was called "Ernst Leybold", which he now continued as sole shareholder. He concentrated on the pharmacy's needs for physical and pharmaceutical apparatus such as vacuum parts (such as pumps or flange connections), which turned out to be economically very successful.

In June 1864 he opened his main business in a new building he had bought for 23,350 thalers in Schildergasse 96a / Brüderstraße 3–5, where he began his own production at that time . At the end of 1865, together with Julius von Holleben, he acquired the Rheinische Glashütten-Actien-Gesellschaft in Cologne-Ehrenfeld , Venloer Strasse 356, which was only founded in 1864 .

After Leybold was said to have become aware of the Marienburg and its surroundings while taking a walk in 1867, he and Adolph Davignon, the Leipzig councilor of commerce, acquired an area of ​​around 60 hectares (20 acres of park and 240 acres of fields) with a manor house and the Marienburg manor in the Cologne-Marienburg villa colony, which was later created and whose fields stretched to Bonner Strasse , from the Sal. Oppenheim bank . He sold his economically successful company in January 1870 to his partner Otto Ladendorff and the businessman Emil Schmidt - albeit without the properties in Schildergasse. Ladendorff and Schmidt ran the company as "E. Leybold's Successor ”continues successfully. In July 1967, the now world-famous company merged with Heraeus Hochvakuum GmbH (Hanau) to form Leybold-Heraeus , whose headquarters remained at Bonner Strasse 498 until September 1987.

Real estate business

Ernst Leybold recognized the advantages of the Cologne-Ehrenfeld passenger station and in 1867, seven years after its opening, acquired the neighboring site from the brick manufacturer Johann Wahlen. After it was parceled out , he sold it to several construction companies. From 1870 he devoted himself increasingly to the real estate business he started in 1867 and founded the real estate company “Leybold & Cie.” In 1880, which concentrated on the planning of the Cologne-Marienburg villa colony. Thereupon, together with business partner Adolph Davignon, he decided to plan the construction of a villa colony as a suburb with the advantages of urban life and rural surroundings, which should extend to the outskirts of Cologne-Rodenkirchen . With the acquisition of 80 more plots , Leybold received a corresponding building area. In 1871, when he took over the shares in Avignon, he became the sole owner of the Marienburg, he moved into the manor of the Marienburg estate himself in 1874 and leased the farm. In 1873 he began extensive earthworks, during which layers of up to 3 meters were removed. In February 1874 he commissioned the Hamburg engineers Avé Lallemant and G. Westendorp with a development plan for the villa colony. In 1876 he founded the "Marienburg Real Estate Company" (1876–1879). Around 1878 the city named a street in the Cologne district of Marienburg after him.

However, the sale and development of the parcels was slow, so that Leybold ran into financial problems. In order to obtain capital, he founded the “Actiengesellschaft Marienburg-Cöln” in 1879, which continued to operate the “Project Marienburg”. In 1879 he leased his house as an excursion restaurant and moved himself to a Cologne apartment building. It was not until the end of 1891 that the Marienburg property went to Leybold & Cie. "Kölnische Immobiliengesellschaft AG" emerged, in which Leybold was one of two directors. After the prerequisites for Marienburg improved (in April 1888 incorporated into Cologne, 1896 development plan with transport links), the expansion of the villa suburb accelerated. The real estate company mostly built villas for wealthy clients. Leybold, who did not move to Marienburg again, remained director of the company until his death in 1907.

Leybold died in 1907 at the age of 82. His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 48 B).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Weise, Leybold, Ernst , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 14, 1985, p. 426 f. [Online version]
  2. ↑ Horst Schmidt-Böcking / Alan Templeton / Wolfgang Trageser (eds.), Otto Sterns collected letters , Volume 1, 2018, p. 110, FN 79
  3. ↑ Ludwig Andreas Buchner (Ed.), New Repertory for Pharmacy , Volume 11, 1862, p. 575 f.
  4. ↑ Kölnischer Geschichtsverein (Ed.), Yearbook , Volumes 10–11, 1928, p. 137
  5. ^ Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Historical Commission (ed.), New German Biography: Volume. Laverrenz-Locher-Freuler , 1985, p. 426
  6. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel, Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb , in: Hiltrud Klier, Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln, Volume 8, 1996, p. 587
  7. ↑ Kölnischer Geschichtsverein (Ed.), Yearbook , Volumes 52–53, 1981, p. 135
  8. ↑ Hiltrud Kier / Wolfram Hagspiel / Dorothea Heiermann / Ulrich Krings, Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 1-Volume 8, 1996, p. XVIII
  9. ↑ Königlich Preußischer Staats-Anzeiger 1 - 3 , 1870, p. 76
  10. ^ Henriette Meynen, Research on German Regional Studies , Volumes 210–211, 1978, p. 44
  11. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.), German Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 6, 2006, p. 415
  12. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel, Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb , in: Hiltrud Klier, Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln, Volume 8, 1996, XVIII
  13. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel, Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb , in: Hiltrud Klier, Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln, Volume 8, 1996, p. 587
  14. ↑ The villa was demolished in 1936 and replaced by the row of terraced houses Parkstr. 11–15 (architects Joseph and Willy Brandt) replaced
  15. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel, Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb , in: Hiltrud Klier, Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln, Volume 8, 1996, p. XVIII
  16. ↑ Detlef Rick: Melaten. Graves tell the history of the city . Emons, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89705-476-9 , p. 173.
  17. ^ Tomb in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 11, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Leybold, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenburg ob der Tauber
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1907
Place of death Cologne