Friedrich Ernst Roessler

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Friedrich Ernst Roessler (born November 25, 1813 in Darmstadt ; † October 9, 1883 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German mint official and entrepreneur .

Life

Roessler was trained by his father, Hector Johann Roessler, in his mechanical workshop at the mint in Darmstadt and subsequently visited the Bavarian mint in Munich , the Austrian one in Vienna , and that of the Kingdom of Württemberg in Stuttgart, as well as the Badische Mint in Karlsruhe . In 1838 he returned to Darmstadt and was temporarily hired in 1838 as a mint official for the new building and establishment of the Frankfurt Mint, which was inaugurated in September 1840. In 1841, due to his achievements, he was appointed first mint official and mint guards of the Frankfurt am Main mint. He carried out this activity until 1873. The coin itself continued to exist until 1879.

In addition to his work for the municipal mint, Friedrich Ernst Roessler had been running a private refinery on rented property since 1843, which was supplemented by a chemical-technical laboratory in 1860. In the same year the laboratory was renamed Hector Roessler Chemisch-Technische Laboratorium .

After the Prussian annexation of the Free City of Frankfurt in 1866, the state divorce was separated from the Frankfurt Mint. Since 1868 it has been called Friedrich Roessler Söhne and in 1873 became the Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt ( Degussa AG ) based in Frankfurt am Main. This subsequently produced all of the melting material in the form of bars and chips for all coins of the German Empire. Today it operates as Evonik Industries AG . Degussa's headquarters were on the banks of the Main in Frankfurt's old town from 1873 to 2010 .

Roessler died in Frankfurt am Main in 1883. He was buried in the main cemetery at Gewann F, An der Mauer 444. His sons continued the business of Degussa in Frankfurt am Main, in the German Empire and internationally.

The collection of German coins created by Degussa from the period since 1871 in precious metal has been on permanent loan from the company in the city's historical museum in an enclosed space since 2003 .

children

  • Hector Roessler (1842–1915), chemist in Frankfurt am Main
  • Johann Heinrich Roessler (1845–1924), chemist and entrepreneur in Frankfurt am Main
  • Julius Roessler (1848–1913), businessman in Frankfurt am Main and from 1887 in Berlin
  • Philipp Bernhard Roessler (1849–1920), businessman in Berlin
  • Ludwig (Louis) Roessler (1850–1910), businessman in Vienna
  • Franz Xaver Roessler (1856–1926), chemist in Berlin and from 1882 in the Degussa branch in New York City
  • Abraham Robert Roessler (1863–1945), master builder in Prussia

grandson

  • Fritz Roessler (1870–1937), industrialist and city councilor in Frankfurt am Main

literature

Web links