Fritz Vorster

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Fritz Vorster (also: Fritz Vorsther , actually Friedrich Wilhelm Vorster ; born January 11, 1850 in Cologne , † July 2, 1912 there ) was a German chemical manufacturer and founder .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm was born as a member of the Vorster industrial family in Cologne at Severinstrasse 53 in Cologne , the son of Friedrich Julius Vorster , co-founder of the Vorster & Grüneberg company , and Wilhelmine Vorster, née Röhrig. After graduating from high school, he studied chemistry at the university there in Zurich . In 1872 he first joined the company in Kalk , which his father co-founded , but in 1873 he went to James Muspratt & Sons in Widnes , England, for further training .

In 1875 Vorster took over the technical management of Vorster & Grüneberg. In the course of the transformation of the company to Chemischen Fabrik Kalk, he became one of the then three managing directors in 1892, but was also a partner in the GmbH .

When he died , the entrepreneur, who was appointed commercial councilor , left behind his wife and now widow Hermine, née Langen, daughter of the ironworker Emil Langen . with whom he had four children; Fritz and Alfons as well as Klara, who married the forest assessor Walter Liebrecht in 1912 and moved to Wilhelmstrasse 10 in Hanover. At the time of Fritz Vorster's death, son Anton was still attending a high school in Cologne.

Vorster is buried in the family grave complex in Cologne's Melaten cemetery .

Foundations

Fritz Vorster made numerous donations. For example, he donated to the city of Cologne

  1. 20,000 marks for the construction of a bathing establishment
  2. 100,000 marks for the construction of a public library with a reading room in Kalk
  3. and 100,000 marks to buy outstanding works of art for the city's museums.

Archival material

Archival material from and about Fritz Vorster can be found, for example

literature

  • Julius Vorster: Fritz Vorster, b. January 11, 1850, d. July 2, 1912 , 19 pages, [Cologne]: [Kölner Verlags-Anstalt], [1919]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information in the Deutsche Biographie dataset
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Compare the information in the Archive in North Rhine-Westphalia portal
  3. ^ A b c Rudolf Martin : Yearbook of the wealth and income of the millionaires in the Rhine province (= The yearbook of the millionaires in Germany in 20 volumes , Volume 9), Berlin: Martin, 1913, p. 233; Digitized as PDF document of the Digital Texts page in the Seminar for Economic and Corporate History / Digital Texts at the Inst. Of Economic and Business history at the University of Cologne
  4. ↑ Günter Bauhoff:  Langen, Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 571 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ burial place. In: findagrave.com. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Vorster, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vorsther, Fritz; Vorster, Friedrich Wilhelm (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and entrepreneur as well as patron
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1912
Place of death Cologne