Georg Egestorff

Georg Egestorff (born February 7, 1802 in Linden ; † May 27, 1868 ibid) was a German industrialist , son of the entrepreneur Johann Egestorff .

family

In 1827 he married Johanne Dorothee Haase (born June 10, 1807 in Hainholz; † January 5, 1880 in Linden), who was the daughter of the Linden economist Rudolf Wilhelm Haase and the granddaughter of the innkeeper Wilhelm Christian Friedrich Haase, owner of the British Hotel (rebuilt in 1746 as Neue Schänke ) on Neustädter Markt. In addition to their son Johann Rudolf Leopold (1834–1836), who died early, the couple had five daughters.

Life

Georg Egestorff learned the cooper's trade in Hildesheim , but was then called back to Linden in order to set up an accounting system for the extensive business of his father that had been completely missing up until then . With the help of Georg Egestorff, business soon flourished.

A limited partnership was set up in Bremen and the operations of all individual companies were expanded. Georg Egestorff founded a salt works in Badenstedt in 1831 , and when his father died in 1834 he took over the management of the entire business. In 1835 the iron foundry and machine factory Georg Egestorff was created, from which Hanomag emerged in 1871 . The machine factory built steam engines , boilers and machines for industrial purposes, and from 1846 also steam locomotives . The plant delivered hydraulic cranes to Geestemünde and equipped the large pumping stations in Hanover , Herrenhausen and Braunschweig .

The iron foundry and machine works Georg Egestorff in Linden around the middle of the 19th century, with the Deister in the background

The first locomotive " Ernst August " delivered by Egestorff in 1846 was used for the opening of the Hanover- Hildesheim railway line and was used to transport mail under General Postal Director Wilhelm August von Rudloff

Memorial and tombstone in the Von-Alten-Garten in Hannover-Linden

In 1839 Egestorff built a chemical factory , especially for the production of soda and its by-products, and in 1856 an ultramarine factory and a factory for primers .

For his workers, he created sickness, benefit and death funds, a people's canteen, a kindergarten and a children's institution. He also endowed a free school for 80 children.

In 1857 the sculptor Caspar von Zumbusch created a marble bust of Egestorff.

Georg Egestorff died without surviving male offspring. The property was initially held together by his son-in-law and commercial director Alfred Houget . The machine factory was sold to Bethel Henry Strousberg in 1868 and significantly expanded by him, but in 1871, like the other Egestorff companies, it was converted into the Hannoversche Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft formerly Georg Egestorff zu Linden vor Hannover ( HANOMAG ).

literature

Karl Karmarsch: Egestorff, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 657 f.
Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 ; Hanover: Sponholtz, 1914, pp. 113-118
Marianne Leber: Egestorff, Johann Georg Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 328 f. ( Digitized version ).
Hans Georg Röhrbein: To the origin of the Egestorff family. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 36 (1982), Issue 3–4, pp. 203–212
Helmut Zimmermann : The Linden Egestorffs and their relatives. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 36 (1982), Issue 3–4, pp. 213–222
Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Georg Egestorff In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 144.
Günter Gebhardt: The industrial pioneers Egestorff, their mining and other companies. In: ders., Military affairs, economics and traffic in the middle of the Electorate and Kingdom of Hanover 1692–1866 (= studies on the history of Lower Saxony, vol. 1). Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8382-0184-9 , p. 141 ff.

Web links

Commons : Georg Egestorff - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Georg Egestorff with a sketch of the location of the mausoleum and the Egestorff hereditary burial site at postkarten-archiv.de
Horst Deuker: How it came about that Romania was located in the middle of Linden , project Lebensraum Linden by FAUST

Individual evidence

^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : Georg Egestorff ... , in ders. (Ed.): Hannover Archive , Vol. 6, Sheet p12

personal data
SURNAME	Egestorff, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 7, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linden (Hanover)
DATE OF DEATH	May 27, 1868
Place of death	Linden (Hanover)

[1] Franz Rudolf Zankl : Georg Egestorff ... , in ders. (Ed.): Hannover Archive , Vol. 6, Sheet p12