Georg Steuler

Georg Steuler

Georg Steuler (born February 12, 1878 in Nauheim near Mainz, † March 26, 1952 in Höhr-Grenzhausen ) is the inventor of the world's first acid-resistant putty (potassium water glass putty ). In 1908 he founded Steuler & Co, today's Steuler Holding .

Life

youth

Georg Steuler began training as a businessman in 1892 at the age of 14 at the “Boeing Factory for Refractory and Acid-Resistant Products ” in Nauheim. There you also noticed his great talent for drawing. The training was the cornerstone for his good technical and commercial understanding. In 1897, the Boeing factory moved from Nauheim to Wirges and Vallendar in the Westerwald .

Career

After Georg Steuler had ended his military service in Berlin in 1900 and had come back to the Westerwald, he turned his back on the former family company Boeing on April 1, 1901, as it had been converted into a stock corporation in the meantime . In the same year, on June 22, 1901, he married Maria Gilling in Vallendar and switched to Stellawerk AG, which produced refractory bricks .

Steuler Towers

Thanks to the initiative of Georg Steuler alone, the company was able to move up into the ranks of the leading companies in a production area that was not previously covered, acid-resistant materials. His promotion to the position of authorized signatory at Stellawerk AG in 1905 was well-deserved recognition. During the years of his work at Stellawerk AG, he developed the acid-resistant putty and the construction of the Steuler towers.

Firmly convinced of his putty, he contacted well-known scientists who offered him the support he needed to implement his idea. In 1908 Georg Steuler founded Steuler & Co. at the goods station in Koblenz . His acid-proof mortar immediately found interested parties and buyers. With the help of bought stones and fitters, he was able to line the first chemical plants at home and abroad.

In order to make himself independent from his suppliers, he decided two years later to set up his own production of refractory and acid-proof bricks in Höhr-Grenzhausen . Georg Steuler revolutionized acid construction with his acid-resistant mortar and the condensation towers named after him. Not least because of this, the construction of large-volume containers and apparatus for the chemical industry became possible in the first place.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Wolfframm (ed.): Idea and work. 1908–1958, published for the 50th anniversary of Steuler-Industriewerke GmbH, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Siershahn, Mühlacker . Archive for Economics, Darmstadt 1958.