Georg Friedrich Christoph Frick

Georg Friedrich Christoph Frick (born January 30, 1781 in Berlin ; † July 4, 1848 there ) was a German porcelain manufacturer and director of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin.

Georg Frick was the son of the mint director George Christoph Frick (approx. 1737-1813) and his wife Johanna Maria Regina Gerhardt, widow of the mint master Carl Gottlieb Lauffer , and was attending chemical, mineralogical and physical lectures at the Bergakademie , which is where his Father taught, prepared for a technical career. He was initially a mint student for a short time before he worked in the Royal Porcelain Manufactory from 1797, initially as assistant to the arcanist , from 1804 as vice arcanist and from 1807 as arcanist. From 1821 he was co-director with Friedrich Philipp Rosenstiel and sole director from his death in 1832 until his suicide in 1848.

He made great contributions to porcelain production. For example, he had a new kiln built, he succeeded in manufacturing vessels up to almost 1 m in height and he developed the color scale for porcelain. However, he was more of a practitioner than a businessman, and so the porcelain factory got into economic difficulties, which were the cause of his suicide.

Publications (selection)

• Over a silver deposit similar to the gold purple . In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie 88, 1828, pp. 285–287.
• About a simple method for the representation of the chromium oxide on a large scale . In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie 89, 1828, p. 494f.
• About the application of iridium to porcelain paints . In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie 107, 1834, pp. 17-19.
• On the separation of iridium for technical use on a large scale, from the residues from the precipitation of platinum in Petersburg . In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie 116, 1837, pp. 209-218.
• About the preparation of the porcelain masses and porcelain glasses in the Königliche Porzellan-Manufactur in Berlin , Berlin 1845.
• History of the Royal Porcelain Manufacture in Berlin , 2 parts, Berlin 1846–1848.
• About the porcelain capsule and pumbs production of the Königliche Porzellan-Manufactur until 1848 , Berlin 1848.

literature

• Hans-Henning Zabel:  Frick, Georg Friedrich Christoph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 432 ( digitized version ).
• Hannelore Plötz-Peters: Two picture plates as an engagement present. The career of KPM director Frick and a present from the year he died. In: Keramos 158, 1997, pp. 55-62.
• Arnulf Siebeneicker: Officiants and Ouvriers. Social history of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory and the Royal Healthware Manufactory in Berlin 1763–1880 (= publications of the Historical Commission of Berlin 100). De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-088914-7 , pp. 152ff.

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Frick  - Sources and full texts