Ferdinand von Steinbeis

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Ferdinand von Steinbeis

Ferdinand Steinbeis , from 1855 von Steinbeis , (* May 5, 1807 in Ölbronn ; † February 7, 1893 in Leipzig ) was a Württemberg economic politician and an important promoter of industrialization in Württemberg.

genealogy

Ferdinand Steinbeis was the son of pastor Johann Jakob Steinbeis and his wife Auguste Charlotte Wilhelmine Steinbeis, nee. Kerner. His mother was a sister of the poet Justinus Kerner , the journalist Johann Georg Kerner and the Württemberg Minister of the Interior, Karl von Kerner , who is considered to be the modernizer of the metallurgical industry in Württemberg.

The marriage between Ferdinand Steinbeis and Friederike Steinbeis, geb. Klumpp, came from the entrepreneur Otto von Steinbeis and the daughter Lina. Her marriage to Wilhelm Frommel resulted in a relationship to the Otto Frommel family .

Life

Ferdinand von Steinbeis, 1860

Ferdinand Steinbeis grew up in Ilsfeld and, after completing an apprenticeship at the Wasseralfingen ironworks in Tübingen, studied natural sciences, where he was awarded the honorary title of "Doctor of Philosophy". From 1827 he was a smelter at the royal iron foundry Ludwigsthal near Tuttlingen and in 1831 switched to the service of Prince Karl Egon II at Fürstenberg in Donaueschingen . In 1842 he became director of the Stumm ironworks in Neunkirchen (Saar) .

In 1848 he was appointed to the Royal Württemberg Government Council by King Wilhelm I of Württemberg and was head of the Central Office for Trade and Industry. He founded several trade schools, for example in Reutlingen , Laichingen , Heidenheim an der Brenz , Geislingen an der Steige , Rottweil , Schwäbisch Gmünd and Heilbronn . In collaboration with the Rottenburg painter and drawing teacher Franz Xaver Schwarz , the Rottenburg School of Applied Arts, the first school of applied arts in Württemberg, was created. Steinbeis looked for and promoted young talent, including the future automobile inventor Gottlieb Daimler .

Its economic development policy concentrated on the more densely populated real estate areas on the Neckar and the Alb . The more sparsely populated peripheral areas such as Hohenlohe and Upper Swabia were ignored in economic development and trade school planning, with far-reaching consequences well into the 20th century.

Steinbeis was a member of the Württemberg state parliament from 1862 to 1868 . In 1878 he defended himself against the protective tariff policy of Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , but remained unsuccessful and therefore took leave of his government office in 1880.

Ferdinand von Steinbeis was buried in a grave of honor in the old cemetery of his adopted home Ulm . Steinbeis is the namesake for the Steinbeis Foundation , the Steinbeis University in Berlin and many schools and vocational training centers, especially in Baden-Württemberg , e.g. B. the Ferdinand von Steinbeis School in Ulm and the Steinbeis Realschule and Community School in Ilsfeld.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Archives Ludwigsburg: Signature PL 3 Bü 180.
  2. ^ Paul Siebertz: Ferdinand von Steinbeis. A forerunner of the economy. Reclam, Stuttgart 1952.
  3. ↑ Ferdinand von Steinbeis School, Ulm
  4. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg . 1866, ZDB -ID 204742-1 , p. 36 Royal Order 1855.
  5. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg . 1880, p. 105.

literature

  • Rudolf Krauss:  Steinbeis, Ferdinand von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 789-791.
  • Paul Siebertz: Ferdinand von Steinbeis. A forerunner of the economy . Reclam, Stuttgart 1952.
  • Quirin Engasser (ed.): Great men of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Kaiser, Klagenfurt 1987, ISBN 3-7043-3065-5 , p. 444.
  • Günter von Alberti: Ferdinand Steinbeis and the promotion of trade in the Kingdom of Württemberg , 2nd edition. Steinbeis Edition, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-9806293-9-2 .
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 891 .
  • Ursula Rottmann: The promotion of vocational training in Württemberg - Vocational training as economic development under Ferdinand Steinbeis - myth and reality . 2nd Edition. Shaker, Aachen 2006, ISBN 3-8322-4027-6 .
  • Manfred Wahle: The promotion of vocational training in Württemberg . In: ZBW 104,2, 2008, pp. 306–308.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 421 f .

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personal data
SURNAME Steinbeis, Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Ölbronn
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1893
Place of death Leipzig