Friedrich Emil Roetig

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Friedrich Emil Roetig , also called Rötig or Rettig (born March 14, 1814 in Hachenburg ; † April 28, 1863 there ), was a German watchmaker .

life and work

Friedrich Emil Roetig was born on March 14, 1814 in Hachenburg as the son of the watchmaker Friedrich Wilhelm Roetig and his wife Maria Magdalene, née Lorsbach. Friedrich Emil Roetig married Anna Katharina Rößgen on October 9, 1854 and lived in Hachenburg until his death. He died at the age of 49. Friedrich Emil left a son, Friedrich Joseph (born 1857), who upheld the family tradition in the fifth generation until he died childless in Hachenburg in 1927.

As a watchmaker, Friedrich Emil was mainly involved in the manufacture of small watches . He became known for his ' Taleruhren '. By miniaturizing the clockwork , he was able to build it into a Prussian thaler . In addition to small clocks, he also made saw clocks. Two of these saw clocks, one finished and one unfinished, were kept in Hachenburg for many years. Today they are privately owned.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Schulte: Lexicon of watchmaking art. Emil Huebners Verlag, Bautzen 1902, p. 675.
  2. ↑ Rötig, Friedrich Emil (Roetig). UhrenHanse, accessed July 23, 2013 .
  3. ↑ From the Roetig watchmaker dynasty to the Bonn. (No longer available online.) Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 23, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.regionalgeschichte.net  
  4. ↑ Lukas Stolberg: Lexicon of the pocket watch. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 1995, ISBN 3-85378-423-2 , p. 144.
  5. ↑ The watchmaker family Roetig in Hachenburg. UhrenHanse, accessed July 23, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Roetig, Friedrich Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rötig, Friedrich Emil; Rettig, Friedrich Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German watchmaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Hachenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1863
Place of death Hachenburg