Gottfried Andreas Böckelmann

Gottfried Andreas Böckelmann (born April 19, 1802 in Salbke ; † September 13, 1870 in Klein Ottersleben ) was a German manufacturer and manor owner.

Life

Böckelmann was born the son of the farmer Johann Sebastian Böckelmann and his wife Elisabeth Böckelmann, née Cuno . His father had been successfully growing sugar beet in Klein Ottersleben since 1799 . Gottfried built his own house on his parents' estate in 1830 and worked on the estate until 1835. Then he founded a sugar factory together with his brother-in-law Johann Christian Köhne and his brother Wilhelm Julius Köhne . It was the seventh sugar factory in Germany. He crossed the small but high-sugar French sugar beet with the larger but lower-sugar German sugar beet. Because his fields were tired of beet , he sold the beet breeding lines to Adolf Julius Giesecke and Matthias Christian Rabbethge , who thus established the Kleinwanzleben seed cultivation .

After his second wife Sophie Böckelmann, née Schliephake from Etgersleben, discovered the special feed value of pressed beet pulp , he had large silos built for the beet pulp . After his death, the sugar factory was closed in 1875, the railway lines did not affect the Ottersleber site.

literature

• Horst-Günther Heinicke: Böckelmann, Gottfried Andreas. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , page 70f.