Ernst Paul Zschörner

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Ernst Paul Zschörner around 1900

Ernst Paul Zschörner (* 1852 or 1853 in Meißen ; † September 24, 1911 in Dresden ) was a German entrepreneur and founder.

Life

Ernst Paul Zschörner grew up in his hometown and then studied at the mechanical department of the Polytechnic in Dresden. He graduated as an engineer in 1876. Because of his excellent performance, he received a grant from the travel grant fund that Julius Ambrosius Hülsse had set up in 1853.

After completing his studies and specializing in wool , Zschörner initially worked in Hanover , where he became a manager of the Döhrener wool combing department. When the construction of the Bremen wool combing facility was planned in 1883 , Zschörner was called to Bremen as a specialist . He was then involved in building what was then the largest wool combing plant in Germany and was responsible for its construction. It was laid out in Blumenthal on an area of ​​500,000 square meters and went into operation in 1884. Zschörner became the technical manager of the plant. The Bremen wool combing started with 150 employees; in 1896 there were already 2000. For a long time, Bremer Woll-Kommmerei was the largest company of its kind worldwide. Ernst Paul Zschörner worked there until the end of 1903 and then retired for health reasons. After his departure, Ferdinand Ullrich became the company's general manager. Ullrich had previously been the commercial director of the wool combing department.

Ernst Paul Zschörner also belonged to the group of merchants who bought Johann Lange's shipyard in Vegesack on October 23, 1893 and founded Vulkan Aktiengesellschaft - Schiffbau und Maschinenfabrik . Zschörner acquired 30 of the 300 shares that were issued when the company was founded.

Zschörner, a member of the Association of German Engineers , moved to Dresden after his professional retreat, where he died in 1911. The architect Paul Hahn designed a tomb for him.

Foundations and honors

Zschörner left many souvenirs from his “trip around the world” to the Meißen City Museum , which are kept there under the title “Zschörner Collection”. In 1906 he bequeathed the "memories of journeys kept in the so-called rarity cabinet" as well as a silver centerpiece from the supervisory board and board of directors of the Bremer Woll-Kammerei and the cabinet itself to the museum on condition that they are memories of a town loyal to his home town Child would be issued. In the same way, he stated in his will, the museum should deal with the "other travel memories that I brought back from my trip around the world, ie with the weapons, ethnographic objects, Indian, Chinese and Japanese bronzes". On the occasion of the 110th anniversary of this museum, the Zschörner collection was shown in a special exhibition in 2011.

In 1906, Zschörner also donated a flight of stairs to the museum on Heinrichsplatz. At that time, the museum's collections were still housed on the second floor of the house, and before the outside staircase was built, visitors had to pass through the Meissen dealers' warehouses, which were located on the ground floor.

Zschörner also bequeathed a large sum to the Meißen Beautification Association for the expansion or new construction of a city park and set up a Zschörner Foundation for the benefit of the community hospital.

Another foundation of Zschörner was the so-called "P-Foundation": In 1899 the alma mater , where Zschörner had received his training in Dresden, received 10,000 marks with the condition that the interest on scholarships be used to support hard-working, needy students. Since Ernst Paul Zschörner did not want to be named as a donor during his lifetime, the foundation was initially called the "P-Foundation". In his will, Zschörner left the university another 5,000 marks to support needy students. The Paul Zschörner Foundation was active from 1912/13, which has since expired.

In Bremen, Ernst Paul Zschörner was honored by naming the Zschörnerstrasse.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Steffi Eckold, Paul Zschörner and the foundation history of the TU Dresden , in: KONTAKT - online. The graduate magazine of the TU Dresden 3/2012 (online at [0 = 37 & data [25] = 37 alumni.tu-dresden.de])
  2. ↑ Bremer Woll-Kämmerei at www.denkmalpflege.bremen.de
  3. ↑ Ullrich's short biography on refo-blumenthal.de
  4. ↑ Bremer Woll-Kämmerei AG (BWK) at www.blumenthal.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.blumenthal.de  
  5. ↑ Dance on the volcano: hour of birth in the midst of the crisis , April 23, 2016 in Weser-Kurier (online at www.weser-kurier.de ( memento of the original from May 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weser-kurier.de
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Kiesel, A half-free shipyard , September 3, 2017 at www.bremen-history.de
  7. ↑ Rudolph Gaertner: Journal of the Associations of German Engineers , Rudolph Gaertner, 1912 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  8. ↑ a b c Zschörner Collection exhibited in the City Museum , in: Meißner Official Journal 6/2011, June 24, 2011, p. 16 (online at www.stadt-meissen.de )
personal data
SURNAME Zschörner, Ernst Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zschörner, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1852 or 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1911
Place of death Dresden