Georg Gottlob Kramsta
Georg Gottlob Kramsta (born July 20, 1782 in Freiburg in Silesia , † April 15, 1850 ibid) was a German linen manufacturer, industrialist and co-founder of the Kramsta family .
Family and personal life
His father was the master furrier , trader and city vogt of Freiburg, Christian Gottlieb Kramsta (1744–1804), whose ancestors immigrated from Bohemia to Hoyerswerda after 1620 and later settled in Freiburg in the Duchy of Schweidnitz . The mother was Marie Rosine, née Klein. Georg Gottlob's older brothers were Christian Gottlieb (1776–1838) and Friedrich (1779–1819), who initially became senior managers of the family business. Georg Gottlob's younger brother Ernst (1784–1845) should also become a partner.
Georg Gottlob married Juliane (1784–1837), a daughter of Johann Gottfried Krebs, rent master of the Hochberg-Pless princes, on Fürstenstein in 1805 . The couple had six sons and four daughters. The sons Eduard (1810–1875), Gustav (1815–1869) and Emil were ennobled by the Prussian king between 1859 and 1862 at his own request. After Emil withdrew from the company after the death of his father in 1850, it was continued by the two partners Eduard von Kramsta and Gustav von Kramsta.
Entrepreneurship
The family business Kramsta initially traded in textiles and produced linen and cotton articles from 1814. The rise of the company took place between 1820 and 1830. Kramsta built new production facilities in Polsnitz, Freiburg and Merzdorf , branches in Bolkenhain and Neisse and finally trading houses for goods export in Leipzig and Hamburg . The colonial goods company, which soon dominated the region, also expanded into ancillary areas of textile production (such as starch factories and mills) as well as into other business areas such as sugar beet processing . The family also acquired extensive land in the Schweidnitz , Striegau and Freiburg area.
literature
- Konrad Fuchs : Kramsta, Georg Gottlob in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 12 (1979), p. 671
- Rudolf Kučera: State, Nobility and Change of Elites. The nobility awards in Silesia and Bohemia 1806–1871 in comparison , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, p. 184ff. on-line
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kramsta, Georg Gottlob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kramsta, Georg Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linen manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1850 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Silesia |