Franz San-Galli

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Franz San-Galli

Franz Friedrich Wilhelm Karlovich San-Galli ( Russian Франц Фридрих Вильгельм Карлович Сан-Галли * February 26 jul. / 9. March  1824 greg. In Cammin in Pomerania , † July 17 jul. / The 30th July  1908 greg. In St . Petersburg ) was a Prussian - Russian entrepreneur .

Life

San Galli's grandfather Carl Balthasar Innocentius San Galli (1755-1818) was a sculptor from Pavia , who was captured as an Austrian soldier in 1778 and came to Stettin during the War of the Bavarian Succession . At the court of General Wichard von Möllendorff , he made a name for himself as a sculptor, received Prussian citizenship and, in 1785, went into honorable retirement for health reasons due to his invalidity. San-Galli's father Johann Carl San Galli joined the Freikorps Ferdinand von Schills , took part in the Prussian Army in the Sixth Coalition War and became a non-commissioned officer in a Uhlan regiment . After the war he became chief customs inspector in Stettin and married Henriette Lübcke.

Franz San-Galli attended high school in Szczecin and received lessons in English , French , dancing , fencing and horse riding at home . His mother exercised a great influence with the proverbs practice truth, diligence and courage, live in unity with yourselves and no master has fallen from heaven, but practice makes perfect . When San-Galli was 17 years old, his father died, so that his mother had to cope with the six children and only a small estate and pension. Franz San-Galli now worked in a newly founded wholesale company for Russian goods.

F. San Galli factory 1896
San Galli Villa, 62 Ligowski Prospect, St. Petersburg
San Galli Passage, Kuznetsky Most, Moscow

When in 1843 an assistant was needed for the St. Petersburg branch, San-Galli took place on despite the low salary of 100 Assignat - rubles and 50 gold rubles. He then moved to another trading company, where he was responsible in the export department for traffic on the Adler steamer between St. Petersburg, Stockholm , Helsinki and Reval . Thanks to his friendship with the son of the factory owner Charles Baird , he became an employee of the Baird machine building in 1844 . In 1851 he became a Russian citizen.

In 1852 San-Galli married the only daughter of the rich merchant Rosinski Sofja Alexandrovna and went into business for herself. In 1853 he opened a workshop with 12 plumbers on St. Petersburg's Ligowski Prospect with borrowed capital for the production of chimneys , ash boxes and metal beds, as well as a shop on Nevsky Prospect . A year later, the workshop was a factory with 1,000 workers for water and heating systems with a residential complex for the workers and a branch in Moscow . He was best known for the invention of the radiator . He also equipped St. Petersburg with ornate iron bars and gas lanterns . He owned houses on Ligowski Prospect and Nevsky Prospect. He had his villa on Ligowski Prospect built by Karl Karlowitsch Rachau and II Gornostajew in 1869–1872 . In 1880 he acquired a real estate complex in Moscow on Kuznetsky-Most, from 1883 Alexei Alexandrovich Martynov the San gallium shopping arcade made. In 1882 he became purveyor to the court . In 1889 San-Galli became a Real Councilor of State (4th class ). He was a member of the Commerce and Manufacturing Council of the Ministry of Finance. From 1891 to 1895 he was a member of the board of directors of the St. Petersburg private commercial bank. He was a member of the St. Petersburg city duma .

San-Galli was buried in the Tenetelew Lutheran cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c On the trail of a technical revolutionary: autobiography of the inventor of our radiators (accessed on April 5, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b c Pavia, Pomerania, St. Petersburg: the Sangalli / San Galli family (accessed on April 5, 2018).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Saint-Petersburg.com: Franz Friedrich Wilhelm San-Galli (accessed on April 5, 2018).
  4. ↑ 100 великих предпринимателей России: Сан-Галли Франц Карлович (accessed April 5, 2018).
  5. ↑ Sankt-Peterburg Encyclopedia: САН-ГАЛЛИ (Sangalli) Франц Карлович (Франц Фридрих Вильгельм) (1824–1908, СПб.) (Accessed March 31, 2018).
  6. ↑ Петроградский частный коммерческий банк за пятидесятилетие его существования. 1864-1914 . Якорь, Petrograd 1914, p. 14 .
personal data
SURNAME San-Galli, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES San-Galli, Franz Friedrich Wilhelm Karlowitsch (full name); Сан-Галли, Франц Карлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian-Russian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Cammin in Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1908
Place of death St. Petersburg