Ferdinand Friedrich August Klusemann

Villa Klusemann as a theater in 2005

Ferdinand Friedrich August Klusemann (born January 9, 1822 in Löderburg , † October 2, 1878 in Magdeburg ) was a German civil engineer and entrepreneur .

Life

Klusemann was the son of a pastor. He completed his military service in the 26th Landwehr Regiment in 1847/48 . At home in the Magdeburger Börde , an important growing area for sugar beet , he dealt with this crop and invented the schnitzel press , which was of great importance for processing sugar beet. It made it possible to preserve the beet slices. Since his idea did not find any manufacturers, he founded the Klusemann & Woltersdorf machine factory in 1849 . In 1857 he was a member of the VDI district association for Magdeburg and the surrounding area . In 1860 he became the sole owner of the company and renamed it Friedrich August Klusemann Maschinenbauanstalt & Eisengießerei , the factory was in Sudenburg . In 1872, he converted it to the corporation under the company Sudenburger Maschinenfabrik & iron foundry AG to. The tasks included the construction of sugar beet factories at home and abroad, as well as the construction of plants for chemical factories. Klusemann had a villa built on Kaiserstraße (today Otto-von-Guericke-Straße), which was sold to the Harmonie-Gesellschaft in 1906 and which today serves as the seat of the Freie Kammerspiele Magdeburg . His wish to build a family foundation to support the poor and needy was fulfilled by his wife after his death with a donation of 60,000 marks .

literature

• Weisner: The Magdeburg machine industry. In: Bartel Hanftmann, Paul Niehus: Festschrift for the inauguration of the new buildings of the Royal Building Trade School and the Royal Mechanical Engineering Schools at the beginning of the winter semester 1907. Verlag E. Baensch, 1907, pp. 81–83.

Web links

• Klusemann, Ferdinand Friedrich August in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon