Friedrich Georg Wieck

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Friedrich Georg Wieck (1850)

Friedrich Georg Wieck (born July 24, 1800 in Schleswig , † January 17, 1860 in Leipzig ) was a technological writer and industrialist.

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Wieck was the son of a Schleswig merchant who traded in cloth, woven and fashion goods as well as Swedish products. After he finished school in his hometown, his father sent him in 1815 to the company "Eisenstuck & Co.", a business partner in Annaberg , for further training. Here he got to know the manual lace production as an assistant . After a trip to England (1827) he developed the idea of producing lace using English bobbinet spinning machines in Saxony . Together with his brother Heinrich and the designer Wilhelm Schönherr, Wieck began to rebuild the English machines. His bobbinet loom, constructed in 1829/30, was the first machine of its kind manufactured in Germany.

To gain capital, Wieck converted his company into the “Aktienverein der Sächsische Bobinett-Manufaktur” in 1830, which was one of the first public companies in the Chemnitz area. Production started with 14 self-made machines. Soon afterwards the company expanded and moved into the Bernhardschen spinning mill in Harthau . However, Wieck's machines could not keep up with the English competition in terms of price in the long term, as they had made a number of technical innovations on their machines. After bobbinet prices dropped rapidly in the mid-1830s, the company was dissolved in 1838. Wieck tried several times in vain to regain a foothold in business life. Finally he turned to economic and technical journalism.

Wieck described the manufactories and factories in Saxony in detail in several works . In the “Gewerbeblatt für Sachsen” he published regularly on technical innovations and inventions. Since 1840 he published his own weekly newspaper, the “Erzgebirgischer Courier mit Herberge”. Wieck also made a name for himself as a translator of technical literature from English into German. He was also interested in patent protection for inventions.

Friedrich Georg Wieck spent the last years of his life in Leipzig . He died here on January 17, 1860.

gallery

  • The former Bernhardsche spinning mill in 1867

  • The workers' house built under Wieck in 1836, later used as a factory school

  • The founding building of the Bernhardschen spinning mill today

Merits

Wieck developed as a publicist into a spokesman for Saxon entrepreneurs. In his writings he represented the interests of the bourgeoisie in Chemnitz and the Erzgebirge . He sat down u. a. for the construction of an Erzgebirge railway and the establishment of a technical educational institution. He was also culturally involved, Wieck was one of the founders of the “Chemnitzer Theater-Aktiengesellschaft”. His depictions of the state of Saxon industry convey an impressive and largely objective picture of the time of the industrial revolution .

Works

  • Principles of the patent system , Chemnitz 1839 ( digitized version )
  • Peat booklet or properties, extraction and use of peat , Chemnitz 1839 ( books.google.de )
  • Industrial conditions in Saxony , Chemnitz 1840 ( digitized version )
  • Saxony in pictures . Haecker-Verlag, Chemnitz 1841 (Reprint Verlag Heimatland Sachsen, Chemnitz 1991)
  • Oger's Textbook of Cotton Spinning . Leipzig 1844
  • The manufacturing and factory industries of the Kingdom of Saxony . Leipzig 1845, ( digitized version )
  • The German industrial exhibition in the Central-Halle zu Leipzig , Leipzig 1850 ( digitized version )
  • From the commercial world - the sewing machine . In: The Gazebo . Volume 44, 1853, pp. 478-480 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Pictures from industrial art: For commercial and industrial schools , Leipzig 1855ff.
  • The book of inventions, trade and industries , several editions, Otto Spamer publishing house , Leipzig

Editor of Deutsche Illustrierte Gewerbezeitung , Berlin, 26.1861 - 35.1870

literature

  • Wolfgang Uhlmann : Friedrich Georg Wieck. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , volume 3/1991, pp. 85–86.
  • Michael Rudloff: The Saxon factory bourgeoisie and the revolution of 1848/49. In: Ulrich Heß, Petra Listewnik and Michael Schäfer (eds.): Economy and the state in the industrialization of Saxony 1750–1930 . Leipzig 2003, pp. 105-138.
  • Egbert Ritter von Hoyer:  Wieck, Friedrich Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, p. 372 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Wieck, Friedrich Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German technological writer and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1860
Place of death Leipzig