Godhard Prussing

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Godhard Friedrich Julius Prüssing (born July 25, 1828 in Bad Segeberg , † October 9, 1903 in Jena ) was a German engineer and cement manufacturer .

family

Prüssing was the fourth son of Georg Heinrich Prüssing and Emilie Henriette Prüssing geb. Nits. The parents married on November 11, 1821 in Segeberg. Godhard Prüssing's mother was a daughter of Hans Friedrich Nissen , provost in Bad Segeberg. She was born on April 15, 1799 in Sarau and died on September 2, 1860 in Kiel .

Godhard Prüssing had three older brothers: Johannes Georg Prüssing (born October 30, 1822 in Segeberg; † 1886 in Chicago ), mustard manufacturer in Chicago, Ernst Theodor Sophus Prüssing (born August 22, 1824 in Segeberg), real estate agent in Chicago and Carl Gustav Emil Prüssing (born September 10, 1826 in Segeberg, † 1876 in Chicago), finance broker ibid.

Godhard Prüssing's younger sister, Bertha Friederike Prüssing (* 1831), was married to the bailiff Laue Raben in Bordesholm. Prüssing married on February 16, 1858 in the Leipzig Thomaskirche Roma Sidonie Thekla Pantzer (born April 26, 1831 in Penig , Saxony, † September 12, 1886 in Jena), court opera singer in Dresden , Kassel and Braunschweig . She was a daughter of the businessman August Pantzer and his wife Friederica Amalia Miersch (Mierisch) from Dresden.

Life

Godhard Prüssing attended the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg until 1845 and then studied engineering at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig from 1845 to 1848 . From 1848 to 1851 he served as a volunteer hunter in the Waßmer Freicorps in the Schleswig-Holstein Army (certificate of discharge from March 25, 1851 as a lieutenant in the engineering corps). In 1852 he passed his engineering exam at the Collegium Carolineum. From 1853 to 1866 Prüssing was a railway engineer in the Brunswick state service and was the engineer responsible for the construction of the Kreiensen – Holzminden line.

Godhard Prüssing began his entrepreneurial activity in 1863 with the establishment of a wood vinegar factory in Holzminden . In 1870 he took on Wilhelm Lagershausen as a partner and then traded as Prüssing & Lagershausen, wood vinegar factory . On July 19, 1872, he was co-founder and personally liable partner of the Portland cement factory Prüssing, Planck & Co. in Vorwohle . In 1885, the Portland cement factory in Rüdersdorf near Berlin was founded with his son Dr. Paul Prussing . On December 22nd, 1885, Godhard Prüssing founded the Saxon-Thuringian Portland Cement Factory Prüssing & Co. KGaA in Göschwitz near Jena as a personally liable partner . The entry in the commercial register took place on April 15, 1886. As early as 1882, he introduced slag sand as the main component in addition to Portland cement clinker in the Vorwohler Portland Cement Factory Prüssing, Planck & Co to improve Portland cement. However, this measure led to violent disputes within the Portland cement production plants in the following years, due to a violation of the purity law for Portland cement. The conflict ended with the separation of Portland cement works and the later iron Portland cement works.

The Göschwitz company became the main factory of the later Prüssing Group and, after the takeover by the Schlesische Portland-Cement-Industrie AG shortly before the end of the Second World War , became the headquarters of one of the largest German cement companies, the OMZ (Ost-Mitteldeutsche Zementindustrie AG) with the original headquarters in Opole, Upper Silesia .

As early as 1888, the Göschwitz brand found its main sales areas in addition to Thuringia in Saxony and Bavaria . In the same year he built five periodically working shaft ovens, which were converted into continuously working ovens in 1898. In 1896 his son Hermann Prüssing († 1897) joined the company as the second personally liable partner. In 1899 his company acquired shares in the Central German Portland Cement Factory Prüssing & Co. in Schönebeck on the Elbe .

In addition, he also dealt with the construction of a Saale dam after his work had suffered considerably from a flood disaster in 1890.

After his death, his two other sons Paul Prüssing and Carl Prüssing ran the company. The latter was also director of the cement factory in Hemmoor .

Godhard Prüssing co-founded the Jena lodge "Kaiser Friedrich III." In 1890

In his honor a foundation was set up under his name in 1921 at the instigation of the later senior boss of the company, Bernhard Averbeck , which initially served for the social security of foremen and employees in emergencies and was extended in 1936 to cover all employees of the company, by increasing the contribution capital.

Literature / sources

  • 50 years of Göschwitz Portland cement. Göschwitz 1936.
  • Rudolf Ludloff : From a single work to a fascist corporation. Habilitation thesis , University of Jena, Jena 1961.
  • On the history of the Prüssing Group in Göschwitz. In: Heimatkreis Jena: (Ed.) Jenaer Heimatbrief “Der Schnapphans” , 35th edition (1979).
  • Tonindustrie-Zeitung , Volume 27, No. 123 from October 17, 1903, p. 1.
  • The register of the Collegium Carolinum. (No. 3177 of 1845 and No. 3531)
  • Church book Bad Segeberg: Baptisms 1828, No. 280.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of the efficiency of the entire industry in Germany . tape 2 , 1873, p. 53 .
  2. ↑ Vorwohle belonged to the Prussian province of Hanover at that time , therefore additions to names like Vorwohle i. Hann. , Vorwohle (Hanover) and the like; Definitely wrongly interpreted, however, is Vorwohle in Hanover , cf. any online map service.
personal data
SURNAME Prussing, Godhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prüssing, Godhard Friedrich Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur in the cement industry
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Segeberg , Holstein
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1903
Place of death Jena