Ferdinand Didier
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Ferdinand Didier (born January 5, 1801 in Stettin ; † 1867 there ; full name Friedrich Ferdinand Didier ) was a German manufacturer . The Stettiner Chamottefabrik F. Didier co-founded by him still exists today under the name Didier-Werke AG .
Life
Didier's ancestors came to Prussia as Huguenot Réfugiés ; his father worked as a master carpenter. Ferdinand Didier attended school in Stettin, did a commercial apprenticeship and then temporarily ran a brick factory near Rostock .
In 1834 Didier acquired a brickworks and lime kiln in Podejuch near Stettin from the Prussian state . In 1849 he found natural deposits of quartz gravel and quartz sand near Podejuch , which he - as one of the first entrepreneurs in Germany - used to manufacture refractory materials, so-called chamotte or chamotte. The chamottes were used in particular by the emerging gas industry. So Didier came into contact with Wilhelm Kornhardt , the director of the Szczecin gas works.
Didier and Kornhardt founded the Stettiner Chamottefabrik F. Didier in 1864/1865 with headquarters in Stettin. Didier sold his business in Podejuch.
Didier died in 1867. The F. Didier chamotte factory in Szczecin was initially continued by Wilhelm Kornhardt as the sole owner. His heirs sold them in 1871 to the Szczecin entrepreneur Zander, who converted it into a stock corporation under the name Stettiner Chamottefabrik Actiengesellschaft formerly Didier . After further restructuring, Didier-Werke AG was founded in 1932 with its headquarters in Berlin , later in Wiesbaden , which still exists today and, following the settlement of minority shareholders in 2010, now belongs 100% to the RHI Group .
literature
- Adolf Jaeschke: Didier, Friedrich Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 634 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 129–130.
Footnotes
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2015 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 notice.
- ↑ RHI consolidated financial statements 2011; PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Didier, Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Didier, Friedrich Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1867 |
| Place of death | Szczecin |