Gustav Jahn (entrepreneur)

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Gustav Heinrich Rudolph Jahn (born June 2, 1806 in Chemnitz ; † 1862 ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur.

Life

He was born as the son of Chemnitz businessman Heinrich Carl Jahn (1777-1823) and his wife Dorothea nee Becker (1777-1849), who ran a textile shop there and from 1820 an oilcloth factory. His uncle was the industrialist Christian Gottfried Becker , whose cotton spinning mill in Chemnitz employed around 2500 people. Since the latter died childless, Jahn's mother fell to a not inconsiderable share of the inheritance, including a representative house on the market in Chemnitz (market 14).

In 1830 Gustav Jahn took the citizenship oath in Chemnitz and initially traded in yarn as a citizen. In 1836 he married Louise Wilhelmine Bellger.

Gustav Jahn leased the building of the former Drahthammers in Mittweida in the Schwarzenberg district office in 1838 . Initially, he and his business partner August Bauer planned to convert the hammer into a stocking factory. A year later he succeeded in obtaining a 10-year privilege to build rotating stocking chairs, on which not only stockings but also underpants and skirts could be made, which he presented several times at trade shows. As early as 1841, however, Jahn switched production to the machine production of nails without having a trade license from the Saxon state. After a corresponding notification, he did not apply for a license to be granted to the Zwickau district directorate until 1844 . He was allowed to do so with the condition that he only employ nail smiths who belonged to a guild. Since Jahn did not adhere to it, on March 29, 1848, during the March Revolution of 1848, there was a machine storm (" nail smiths rebellion ") to destroy his machine nail factory. Before that, the nail factory of Leinbrock & Zimmermann in Elterlein had been destroyed by the insurgents on the same day .

Jahn managed to escape and he returned with his family to Chemnitz, where he received a generous loan from the Saxon state parliament to rebuild his destroyed factory. In 1849 Gustav Jahn left the Kingdom of Saxony and settled in Dessau in Anhalt , where he first opened a nail factory in 1849 and, together with his later son-in-law Julius Arendt, a machine factory (Jahn & Co. or Jahn & Arendt) in 1850. From 1854, however, he leased his nail factory in Mittweida to the Nestler & Breitfeld company . There were protests against the Dessau nail factory from the start, so Jahn quickly gave up.

Gustav Jahn has been lost since 1862. The property in the Ore Mountains was sold in 1864.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Jahn: The destruction of the machine nail factory in Mittweida near Scheibenberg by rebellious workers from the surrounding area , Leipzig, CH Hoßfeld, 1848 ( urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10389011-5 ); ders .: The destruction of the machine nail factory in the village of Mitweida near Scheibenberg by rebellious nail smiths, manual workers and farmers from the area . Kretschmar: Chemnitz 1848. ( urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-ppn3220809758 )
  2. ↑ Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt , Z 107, No. 601 Jahn and Arendt mechanical engineering works and iron foundry, Dessau, 1854-1862.
  3. ↑ Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt: Z 105, No. 207 Complaint from the Köthener nail smiths' association to the Köthen State Ministry about the granting of a license for the manufacturer Gustav Jahn from Chemnitz (Mittweida) to set up a machine nail factory in Dessau, 1849.
personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahn, Gustav Heinrich Rudolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH 1862