Friedrich Sadebeck
Friedrich Sadebeck (born October 24, 1741 in Reichenbach , Hereditary Principality of Schweidnitz ; † December 1, 1819 , Reichenbach district ) was a German white tanner , textile merchant and manufacturer.
Life
Friedrich Sadebeck was a son of Heinrich Sadebeck from Priegnitz († 1751). Like him, he learned the trade of white tanner, which he completed with the title of master. He then devoted himself to the yarn trade , which he was already involved in during his apprenticeship. Since Reichenbach and the surrounding villages, including Bielau , Peterswaldau , Ernsdorf and the Peilaudörfer , lived almost exclusively from cloth- making, he found a rich field of activity in textile production. In his production facilities, the raw cotton was processed and sold into the finished cloth. When local raw materials became scarce due to the increased demand for cotton fabrics, from 1770 onwards he obtained cotton from Macedonia via Trieste and Vienna . He had these spun in the surrounding weaving villages and woven on around 850 looms . In 1794 he planned to convert his operations to machine spinning, which he did not succeed in because he did not find any support for this from the Prussian government. When the local spinning mills could no longer meet the yarn requirements, he also imported machine yarns from England from 1801. However, since these were of better quality than the hand-spun native ones, the cotton mills in the surrounding weaving villages declined.
In the years 1800–1803 Sadebeck processed 360,000 pounds of cotton annually, employing about 10,000 workers. The annual turnover of his operations was estimated at one million Reichstaler , his fortune at 300,000 Reichstaler. As early as the 1780s he owned a large house on Reichenbacher Ring, in which the Reichenbacher Convention was negotiated in 1790 .
When a continental barrier was ordered due to the Napoleonic Wars and the export of the calico to England was no longer possible, the number of looms working for Sadebeck fell from 900 in 1805 to 400 in 1806.
In 1805 he donated a cemetery named after him to the Protestant community of Reichenbach, which was designed according to his artistic ideas. His body was buried there in 1819. During his lifetime he had already handed over his company to his eldest son August (1770–1846), but he could not keep it.
The teacher, mathematician and geodesist Moritz Sadebeck was his son. Friedrich Sadebeck was the grandfather of the botanist Richard Sadebeck and the mineralogist and geologist Alexander Sadebeck .
literature
- Konrad Fuchs: Sadebeck, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 344 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 435f.
- Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 278
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Individual evidence
- ↑ From the beginning of the 19th century Sadebeck's younger competitor Melchior Kellner also owned a rich house on the Ring.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sadebeck, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German white tanner and textile merchant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1741 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reichenbach , Duchy of Schweidnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1819 |
| Place of death | Reichenbach , Reichenbach district (Owl Mountains) |