Friedrich Carl Ludwig Koch

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Friedrich Carl Ludwig Koch (born February 15, 1799 in Rothehütte am Harz , † March 12, 1852 in Grünenplan ) was a German entrepreneur.

Life

After working at the ironworks in Gittelde , he completed his studies at the Clausthal mining academy . He then worked as an assistant at the Königshütte near Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains and at the same time made a name for himself in the field of mineralogy with several publications. He also taught mathematics for a year at the Hanover Lyceum. In 1824 he accepted the offer of the manager of the mirror glass factory Amelith John Bippart to chair the mirror glass factory on the Green Plan in Grünenplan on.

In 1830 he and Ferdinand Bippart, son of Johannes Bippart, owned the glassworks in Grünenplan. His wife became Auguste Bippart, daughter of Johannes Bippart.

When pauperism hit its workers, it encouraged the cultivation of potatoes. For this he was named a mountain ridge in 1834 by the government of the Duchy of Braunschweig . In 1845 he became the owner of the ducal Friedrich-Carls-Hütte in Delligsen .

For the glassworks in Grünenplan, he built up sales opportunities in the USA , wherever he also traveled. After the famine of 1846/47, he helped people from the Duchy of Braunschweig and the Kingdom of Hanover to emigrate there by buying land there and expanding them into a settlement colony. Pastor Ferdinand Sievers, Koch's former employee, handled the purchase in what is now the Frankenlust Township . In the United States, Koch's eldest daughter Caroline (1829–1904) married Pastor Sievers. The settlement colony was named Amelith; the place was marked with a plaque in 2014.

In 1851, he warned in a letter against companies in the United States that would attract miners. For this he was awarded the Guelph Order 4th Class.

Memorial plaque on the church in Grünenplan

He also owned large estates in the Holzminden district and supported the construction of the church in Grünenplan, which was made in 1851/2.

His first son Bernhard (1827–1908) emigrated to the USA in 1850 together with their daughter Caroline. His third son Friedrich Koch (1836-1891) created the fifth German stock corporation, now Schott AG, from the Grünenplan glassworks in 1871 with Deutsche Spiegelglas AG . His second son was Ferdinand Koch .

On the trip to the USA in 1850, he fell ill with yellow fever . He died in 1852 - weakened by the yellow fever attacks from which he had suffered in North America - as a result of a fall in a glassworks.

Works

As an author he published a. a. The following:

  • 1822: Contribution to the knowledge of crystalline metallurgical products
  • 1851: The mineral districts of the United States of America, North America at Lake Superior
  • 1851: The German colonies near the Saginaw River

literature

  • Wolfgang Krippendorff: Our Bergrat Friedrich Carl Ludwig Koch (1799-1852), 2006
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon I, 1996, p. 330/1
  • Cornelia Pohlmann: The emigration from the Duchy of Braunschweig in the power play of state influence and public response 1720–1897 (=  contributions to colonial and overseas history . Volume 84 ). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08054-6 , pp. 152–160 ( google.de [accessed on July 28, 2016] plus Phil. Diss. Univ. Bamberg 2001). (Book preview on Google Books with gaps)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Christian Poggendorff : Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of exact sciences , Volume 1, 1863, Sp. 1288/89. On-line
  2. ↑ Helmut Radday: - and announce our emigration: a contribution to the social history of the Upper Harz in the 19th century using the example of the Koch family association, 2000, p. 19
  3. ^ Gerhard Bätzing: Pastor history of the church district Homberg from the beginnings to 1984, 1988, p. 469
  4. ^ Bernhard Kiekenap: Karl and Wilhelm: Braunschweig after 1848, Herzog Wilhelm und die Regenten, 2004, p. 167
  5. ^ Molly Young: Historic marker erected in Frankenlust Township to remember Village of Amelith, St. John church , 2014
  6. ↑ Johannes Laufer: From glass manufacture to industrial enterprise: Deutsche Spiegelglas AG (1830–1955), 1997, p. 36
  7. ↑ Claus Bernhardt: Village stories from the Werratal: Vier Erzählungen, 2014, p. 85
  8. ↑ Cornelia Pohlmann: The emigration from the Duchy of Braunschweig in the power play of state influence and public response 1720-1897 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, p. 159 ( google.de [accessed on July 28, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Friedrich Carl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothehütte am Harz
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1852
Place of death Green plan