Friedrich Ewers
Hartwig Peter Friedrich Ewers (born September 21, 1828 in Lübeck ; † December 15, 1913 there ) was a German industrialist. He is considered a Lübeck pioneer of industrialization.
Life
Ewers came from a humble background and was the son of a board girder who had come to Lübeck from Wismar . After finishing school he began a five-year apprenticeship as a businessman with Joachim Frank, who traded in ship's provisions, spices, fats and colors. After completing his apprenticeship, he became an employee of the wholesaler and oldest German canning factory Daniel Heinrich Carstens .
After the death of Carstens in 1854, he took over the management and contributed to the profit and growth of the company in the following 20 years. As a Lübeck businessman, he received patent no.6480 from the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin on November 24th, 1877 for the invention of a new type of can closing machine , which replaced the time-consuming and labor-intensive soldering that had been in use up until then. In 1897 he received a US patent for it. Lübeck's growing fishing industry flourished.
On May 31, 1892, he retired from the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce due to seniority .
He was elected to the citizenry for the list of the Father City Association.
In 1881 founded Ewers at the Moislinger Avenue Maschinenfabrik Ewers & Miesner , which existed until 1990, 1883 and shortly thereafter the Blechemballagenfabrik sheet metal processing factory Ms. Ewers & Co . The number of employees at this company initially comprised two people working on folding machines ; for the company's 25th anniversary (1909), several hundred produced the products for the world market.
At the age of 75 he built a modern sand-lime brick factory in Siems with his eldest son, Senator Friedrich Ewers , and the chamotte factory five years later . They were within sight of the Asmuss oil mill on the banks of the Trave by today 's Herrentunnel . Almost all work within the factory, which was unique in Lübeck around 1903, was carried out with the most modern machines.
He was appointed several times to the citizenship , the citizens' committee , the chamber of commerce and various civil honorary offices .
The former Carstens canning factory still exists today after several mergers. But canned food is no longer produced here. The company Erasmi & Carstens has changed its range and is now active in the marzipan production .
When his son Ludwig Ewers published the Lübeck novel Die Großvaterstadt in 1926 , he dedicated it to his daughter and wrote in the foreword
“This book has been sterilized from yellowed leaves; You know who was describing her hard. - And some things sound inconsistent to the stranger - A heavy soil had to be plowed through "
One of the two protagonists of the book was his father in the person of Fritz Normann .
See also
literature
- City Papers ; Lübeck, December 20, 1913, No. 50, obituary: HPF Ewers
- Rüdiger Sengebusch: A turning point - factories in Lübeck ; Lübeck 1993, ISBN 3-7950-0114-5 .
- Günter Kohlmorgen: Ewers, Hartwig Peter Friedrich , in: Alken Bruns (ed.): New Lübeck CVs. Neumünster: Wachholtz 2009 ISBN 978-3-529-01338-6 , pp. 193-195
novel
- Ludwig Ewers: The grandfather city. the first edition was still in two volumes, Munich: Hugo Schmidt 1926. 3rd edition Lübeck: Dräger-Druck 1980 ISBN 978-3-925-40209-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ patent specification
- ↑ Lübeckische Blätter: Vol. 34, Issue No. 76 of September 21, 1892
- ↑ Lübeckische Blätter: Vol. 41, Issue No. 27 of July 2, 1899, Article: This year's elections for citizenship
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ewers, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ewers, Hartwig Peter Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1913 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |