Georg Hamm

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Georg Hamm (born November 8, 1817 in Wittersheim , Palatinate ; † January 9, 1878 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German bell founder , machine manufacturer and freedom fighter.

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Hamm was born the son of the miller and mill doctor Andreas Hamm (1798-1859) and his wife Maria Elisabetha de la Paix († 1858). He learned the craft of bell casting from Peter Lindemann in Zweibrücken . Hamm took over its foundry and in 1840 moved its headquarters to Wittersheim. He also advertised the manufacture of small steam engines and fire engines .

In July 1844, Hamm moved its business to Frankenthal, where it leased the main building of the Schrader bell foundry in Glockengasse. On September 22nd, 1845 he bought it for 700 guilders. Hamm built a casting furnace with coal firing. He received an order from the city for a fire engine and supplied the Frankenthal sugar factory with pumps and boilers.

In order to further expand his machine factory, he entered into a partnership with the salt clerk Friedrich Wilhelm Meinhold on December 31, 1846, and on April 1, 1847 Georg Adam Kühnle joined the company as a further partner. Kühnle was involved in the machine works Georg Hamm und Compagnie with 15,000 guilders, from Meinhold and Hamm 8000 and 2000 guilders respectively. The former woolen manufacture was acquired as a production facility on March 17, 1847 for 10,000 guilders. Hamm's younger brother Andreas (1824–1894) joined the company on January 26, 1849 as the fourth partner .

After Hamm's escape, his brother took over the management in 1849. Ten years later, Georg ceded his shares to his brother, who went into business for himself as a bell founder in 1861. The machine works went to Kühnle, which merged to Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch in 1899 - today BorgWarner Turbo Systems and Howden Turbo. The company Albert & Hamm and the global company Heidelberger Druckmaschinen later emerged from the Andreas Hamm foundry .

Georg Hamm became a co-founder of the city's democratic association in 1848. The spokesmen were the right-wing candidates for Peter Fries and the Behlen merchants. For the cantonal committee of the Volksverein, he advertised in November 1848 in the Frankenthaler Wochenblatt for donations for the relatives of Robert Blum, who was shot in Vienna . In the spring of 1849, the executive committee (district committee) of the Palatinate people's associations moved from Neustadt to Frankenthal. Co-signers of the invitation to the large popular assemblies on May 1st and 2nd were "With brotherly greetings" also Fries and Hamm. After the baker Zöller called on May 5, 1849 to arm the people and the city council approved the formation of a people's armed forces, Hamm became commander of the people's armed forces and replaced the doctor Julius Bettinger as vigilante commandant. Mayor Carl Lehmann failed to try to set up a civil defense.

Hamm became a member of the 13-member Cantonal Defense Committee (of the Reich constitution) and the smaller Frankenthal recruiting commission. However, the city council was able to push the members of the radical democratic association back into the back ranks. Only four people also belonged to the committee of the people's associations, Hamm was 8th and Carl Behlen was 9th. From May 11th, Hamm undertook "armed trains" with the People's Army, including to Eppstein and to the ship bridge in Ludwigshafen .

As deputy of the civil commissioner Georg Hillgärtner, Hamm was successful in collecting funds for the provisional government of the Rhine Palatinate . On June 13, 1849, he auctioned the wood from the state timber yard. He confiscated the salt treasury of the royal salt office from his business partner Meinhold.

On June 19, the Palatinate uprising was suppressed, and Hamm fled to Lorraine via Wittersheim . The Palatinate Court of Appeal in Zweibrücken sentenced him to death in absentia in September 1851 for high treason and treason . In the indictment file he was 39th of the 333 consorts ; she describes him as the most dangerous, active and active agent of revolutionary violence . Hamm again founded a machine factory and bell foundry in Saargemünd (Sarreguemines). As an entrepreneur, Hamm was given an early amnesty in 1861. He returned to the Palatinate and founded a bell foundry in Kaiserslautern, which he managed successfully until his death. He cast 631 bells. His son-in-law Max Faber continued to run the business.

Georg Hamm died on January 9, 1878 in Kaiserslautern, he was Catholic.

family

Hamm had a sister and six younger brothers. He married Martha Maria Ries (born May 1, 1821 in Frankenthal). His son Fritz Hamm (born March 4, 1848 in Kaiserslautern) married a cousin in 1875, the daughter of Andreas Hamm. In the same year he founded the bell foundry of the same name in Augsburg , which his son Fritz Hamm (1878–1935) continued until 1922. He was the last bell-maker in town. The mill in Wittersheim has only existed as a farm trade since December 2016 .

literature

  • Rudolf H. Böttcher: Liberals and Democrats in Frankenthal. In: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution 1848/1849. A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution. Special issue of the Association for Palatinate-Rhenish Family Studies. Volume 14. Issue 6. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1999. pp. 281–283.
  • Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: Worms and Frankenthal as a bell foundry town , special reprint as a brochure of the Stadtmuseum, from Frankenthal then and now , issue 1 and 2, 1997.
  • Indictment files, drawn up by the K. General State Procuratorate of the Palatinate, together with the verdict of the Prosecution Chamber of the K. Appellate Court of the Palatinate in Zweibrücken on June 29, 1850, in the investigation against Martin Reichard, dismissed notary in Speyer, and 332 consorts for armed rebellion against armed power, treason and treason, etc. Zweibrücken 1850. # 39, p. 175.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Rhineland-Palatinate personal database names December 18, 1878 as the date of death.
  2. ^ Royal Bavarian Official and Intelligence Gazette for the Palatinate: Private advertisement from August 3, 1840 . Supplement to No. 91 of August 19, 1840. p. 724.
  3. ↑ Karl Walter: Bell customer . Pustet, Regensburg 1913. p. 753. Snippet
  4. ↑ Pfälzer Zeitung : Distribution of the inheritance after the death of the mother in 1858 . Appendix to no.182, dated August 7, 1858.
  5. ↑ Karl Walter: Bell customer . Pustet, Regensburg 1913. p. 753. Snippet
  6. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine : The bell consecrated to Margarethe is a rarity . (Newspaper article from December 24, 2010)
  7. ^ Mühle Hamm GmbH . (accessed on July 28, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Hamm, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bell founders, machine builders and freedom fighters
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittersheim
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1878
Place of death Kaiserslautern