Georg Christian Freund (manufacturer)

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Georg Christian Freund (born May 18, 1792 in Uthlede / Weser ; † October 11, 1819 in Gleiwitz / Silesia ) was a German mechanical engineer and industrialist.

Life

Georg Christian Freund was born on May 18, 1792 as the fourth son of master blacksmith and later veterinarian Julius Conrad Freund (April 4, 1753 - November 14, 1842) and his wife Cathrin Lisbet (1762-1821), daughter of blacksmith Mehrten von Würden (1730–1802) born in Uthlede on the lower Weser. He had six brothers and four sisters.

With his uncle Burchard von Würden (1765-1844) he did an apprenticeship as a mechanic or blacksmith in Copenhagen , then worked at the Royal Mint in Copenhagen and in 1814 followed a call to the Royal Mint in Berlin , but this position was already occupied elsewhere. In 1815 he founded  a machine factory at Mauerstraße 34 . There, in the precision engineering workshop of the Post Councilor Carl Philipp Heinrich Pistor , he succeeded in building the first functioning steam engine in Berlin in collaboration with Pistor . This machine was developed for the gold and silver goods manufacturer Hensel & Schumann, had an output of 6 hp, was put into operation in 1816 and was in service until 1902 (today in the Deutsches Museum in Munich). His second pioneering achievement was the construction of the first Berlin gas lighting system with 40 lighting points by October 1816, also at the company Hensel & Schumann. Despite the benevolent applause from Friedrich Wilhelm III. his plan to install this type of lighting in the area of ​​the castle was rejected.

On a business trip to Upper Silesia, Freund died unexpectedly on October 11, 1819. His brother Julius Conrad Freund became his successor in the factory .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Christian Freund in the local family book Uthlede
  2. ^ Georg Christian Freund in Albert Gieseler: Steam Engines and Locomotives, Mannheim, 2009
  3. ↑ Prussian trade policy in Berlin 1806–1844: State aid and private initiative between mercantilism and liberalism by Ilja Mieck, Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1966, p. 66 Digital copy:
  4. ↑ Bodo Rollka, Volker Spiess, Bernhard Thieme: Berliner Biographisches Lexikon, Haude & Spener, Berlin, 1993, p. 123
personal data
SURNAME Friend, Georg Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Uthlede
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1819
Place of death Gliwice