Georg Adam Kühnle

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Georg Adam Kühnle, daguerreotype around 1850

Georg Adam Kühnle (* February 1796 in Haßmersheim ; † June 30, 1863 in Frankenthal (Pfalz) ) was a trader, freight forwarder and river shipowner who founded a casting and machine factory in Frankenthal, which later became the mechanical engineering company Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch .

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He was the son of the skipper Georg Friedrich Kühnle and his wife Maria Magdalena Heuss, from the same Haßmersheim family from which the future Federal President Theodor Heuss descended.

Georg Adam Kühnle ran extensive trading on the Neckar and Rhine with his own ships around 1845 . In particular, he sold wood and agricultural products; his fortune was estimated at the enormous sum of 100,000 guilders.

Georg Hamm from Saar-Palatinate took over the long-established Schrader bell foundry in Frankenthal in 1844 and also produced gray cast iron there. On April 1, 1847, Kühnle joined this company as a financially strong partner, but initially did not participate in the management of the company, but continued to devote himself to his trading business. From 1848 Andreas Hamm , Georg Hamm's younger brother, also worked in the company. Due to active participation in the revolution of 1848/49 , Georg Hamm had to flee and later, after his pardon, settled in Kaiserslautern .

Georg Adam Kühnle took over the management of the Frankenthal company together with Andreas Hamm. The latter went into business for himself in the same division in 1852 and Kühnle continued to run the parent company on his own, but excluding the bell production. He now mainly produced steam engines, steam boilers, mill and brewery equipment as well as textile machines. The factory operated under the name Kühnlesche Maschinenfabrik and expanded rapidly. One of the main customers was the Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik (BASF) in Ludwigshafen, which purchased a large part of its mechanical equipment exclusively there.

The company's founder died in 1863. Under the heirs, the factory merged in 1899 with two other Frankenthal companies, the steam boiler forge owned by Hans Kopp (1847–1915) and the boiler forge Velthuysen & Co., which belonged to the engineer Rudolf Kausch (1865–1910). The new company was called "Frankenthaler Kesselschmiede und Maschinenfabrik Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch AG" (KK&K), which is the name it kept until 2007 and is now called "Siemens Turbomachinery Equipment GmbH" .

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  1. ^ Association of German Engineers: "Technology History" , Volume 69, Issues 2-4, 2002, page 165; Excerpt from the source
personal data
SURNAME Kühnle, Georg Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Hassmersheim
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1863
Place of death Frankenthal (Palatinate)