Friedrich Wilhelm Ottilius Broekelmann

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Friedrich Wilhelm Ottilius Brökelmann (born March 31, 1867 in Neheim ; † 1953 there ) was a German entrepreneur in the aluminum industry.

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Ottilius Brökelmann was the son of the entrepreneur Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Brökelmann. Friedrich Wilhelm Ottilius first attended elementary school and at the same time received private lessons in mathematics, Latin and French. In 1880 he came to the Laurentianum grammar school in Arnsberg, where Ottilius graduated from high school in 1886.

After graduating from high school, Ottilius worked as an apprentice at Brökelmann, Jäger & Co. and moved to Brökelmann & Co. in Hamm in spring 1887. From the fall of 1887 Friedrich Wilhelm Ottilius attended the Technical University in Hanover and one year later switched to the Technical University in Stuttgart , which he attended until 1889. Last but not least, Ottilius attended the University of Geneva from 1889 to 1890, where his brother also studied.

Aluminum plant (1910)

When his grandfather Friedrich Wilhelm Brökelmann died in 1890 , Ottilius joined his father's company and specifically managed the oil mill. Ottilius began to expand the company by replacing the previously existing water wheel with a turbine and the outdated steam engine with a 2-cylinder steam engine from Sundwiger Eisenhütte . He also replaced various post-presses and 2 pre-presses in the mill. He created new warmers, a new roller mill, a high-pressure and low-pressure accumulator and, above all, the connection to the Ruhr-Lippe-Kleinbahn .

In 1908 the oil mill burned down. In 1910, Ottilius switched to the then still very underdeveloped aluminum industry and thus laid the foundation for the Brökelmann Aluminum company founded in 1910 . By selling kitchenware and household goods, the company quickly gained market leadership in the German Empire. "Workers and employers belong together" , it says in its first issued work order. "The fact that a close bond is formed between the two of them and that both parties have genuine trust in one another can ensure that the factory flourishes and that the managers of the factory are able to take care of the welfare of the employees to the greatest possible extent," says he also in his second work order. In reality, however, there were also conflicts of interest between workers and employers, which erupted in a strike around 1913.

Although he did not follow any trend with the aluminum processing in the lighting industry in the town of Neheim, he nevertheless had success with the settlement around Ruhrtal.