Friedrich Adolf Pflug

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Friedrich Adolf Pflug
Gravestone Friedrich Adolf Pflug

Friedrich Adolf Pflug (born November 29, 1810 , † March 20, 1886 in Morrn ) was a German manor owner and entrepreneur.

In 1839 he founded a mechanical engineering company for railway wagons at Chausseestrasse 7-9 in Berlin-Mitte . In 1850, Pflug relocated his factory to Moabit and converted it into a stock corporation in 1852 . The company existed until 1880.

Pflug had the Villa Alt-Moabit  118 built based on a design by Eduard Knoblauch , where he moved from his previous residence, Chausseestrasse 7, in 1860. Today the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Park is located here.

After his death in 1886 he was buried in the cemetery of the St. Johannis parish in Berlin-Moabit .

The Pflugstrasse , which was laid out in 1888 between Schwartzkopffstrasse and Wöhlertstrasse in Berlin-Mitte , was named after Pflug on March 12, 1889.