Heinrich Adolf Kraemer

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Heinrich Adolf Kraemer (born April 5, 1798 in St. Ingbert ; † January 27, 1876 in Trier-Quint ) was a German ironworks owner and industrialist .

origin

Heinrich Adolf Kraemer was a son of Heinrich Kraemer (1754-1803) and his wife Sophia, geb. Firmond (1763-1833).

Life

After Adolf Kraemer, together with his brothers Philipp and Friedrich , had acquired the ironworks in the lower Quintbach valley , called “the Quint” , founded by the French officer Franz Pidoll in 1683, from Franz Carl von Wendel on January 1, 1827 , he quickly began the To transform a work that had suffered badly in the revolutionary years into a viable company.

Quinter Castle front with iron gate

The innovations included the introduction of the puddling process , the replacement of charcoal by hard coal and the use of the steam engine instead of water power . Kraemer of the head of the company was the old foundry with attached converted hammer in a specialized plant for mixed welding iron - rails to. In the attached iron foundry were u. a. the still well-known “Quint-Oven” , the so-called cast-iron “Quinter-Pillars” as supporting structure for buildings, manhole covers as well as Taken plates . In 1842 Kraemer, who had meanwhile relocated his headquarters to Quinter Castle , took sole responsibility for the plant and subsequently expanded it into a large company. After the parent company in St. Ingbert had been converted into a limited partnership in 1859 , Kraemer, who had been co-owner there with his brothers Heinrich and Fritz since 1822, left and became the sole owner of Quinter Eisenwerk.

Quinter cast iron manhole cover

In 1870, the plant received its own railway connection, so that the Moselle port that had been in use up until then was no longer needed. In the same year Kraemer lost his son Hugo (1834-1870), who should have been his successor in the company. The high point of production was in 1872. The number of employees who had benefited from the increasing construction of the railway had meanwhile risen to 1,200. After the iron tariffs were lifted in 1873, pig iron producers from Lorraine pushed their way onto the German market, making it increasingly difficult for Kraemer to sell themselves. In 1874 he converted his company into a stock corporation , but caused a major crisis in the domestic iron industry that he had to dismiss half of his workforce almost suddenly. After Kraemer died in 1876 at the age of 77, the "Quint Union" took over the entire property of AG Quinter Eisenhüttenwerke from its heirs.

Quinter factory from 1912

Emblem of the Ougrée-Marihaye company

Later, the Quinter plant became increasingly less important after the ironworks in Lorraine and Saar introduced the Thomas process . The pig iron and steel production was finally given up in favor of a rolling mill , in addition to maintaining the traditional iron foundry. In 1912 the plant was sold to the Belgian company “Société anonyme Ougrée-Marihaye” and from there in 1918 it came into the Klöckner Group's area of interest through the Lorraine “Aumetz-Friede Hütten-Verein” . From then on, the plant continued to be operated as “Klöckner-Werke, Department-Quint”. The attached rolling mill was given up in 1925, as was the iron foundry in 1972, which had in the meantime once again experienced a significant revival during the Second World War .

Supplementary biography

Adolf-Krämer-Weg in Quint

Kraemer was a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament in 1833 and 1837 and a member of the Society for Useful Research in Trier (GfNF) . As co-founder and chairman of the supervisory board, he promoted the Moseldampfschifffahrtgesellschaft founded in 1840 and since 1842 he was district deputy . In 1845 he had founded a health and aid fund for the approx. 500 employees in the plant as well as a school. In 1851 he became a member of the Trier Chamber of Commerce . In his honor, the Adolf-Krämer-Weg in the Quint district of Trier was named.

Later use of the property

The property was later acquired by “Wohnungsbau und Treuhand AG (gbt)”, which was founded in 1899, the former buildings of the iron and steel works were demolished at the beginning of the 1980s and a social housing project with the so-called “hire purchase model” was implemented there. The Quinter Castle including the park was renovated in 1984 and a kindergarten was set up in the manor house.

family

Josef Kraemer had been in St. Ingbert with Henriette, born in 1825. Röchling (1805–1874) married. Her parents were the businessman and trader Thomas Röchling (1755–1841) and his wife Friederike, geb. Der. The Kraemers had 6 children together; Adolf, Henriette, Friderike, Rosa, Hugo (died only 36 years old in 1870) and Franziska.

Awards

literature

  • Heinz Monz (Ed.): Kraemer, Heinrich Josef , In: "Trier Biographical Lexicon" , WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , p. 254.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hellwig, Fritz, "Kraemer, Heinrich" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 12 , 1979, p. 633 f., Accessed on February 1, 2020
  2. ↑ Kraemer, Sophia, index entry: German biography , accessed on February 1, 2020
  3. ↑ In 1683 Franz Pidoll built the first blast furnace on Quintbach, Bernhard Peter, Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 554 Trier - in the vicinity of Germany's oldest city, In: Welt-der-Wappen
  4. ↑ a b c d e Hellwig, Fritz, "Kraemer, Adolf", In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 12 (1979), p. 635 f.
  5. ^ Eisenwerk die Quint near Trier, Panorama of Trier and its surroundings, In: dilibri.de
  6. ^ Local history Quint, Ehrang-Quint, City of Trier, From the chronicle of the district of Quint, In: kulturdb.de
  7. ↑ Quint St. Ingbert 1859, The industrialization of the Saar region 1815-1914: Volume 1: The early industrialization 1815-1850, by Ralf Banken, Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07324-8 in the Google book search
  8. ↑ Quint St. Ingbert 1859, German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE), 2nd edition, Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.), Volume 6, Kraatz - Menges, K - G - Sauer Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25030-4 in the Google book search
  9. ↑ Kraemer, Hugo, index entry: German biography, accessed February 02, 2020
  10. ^ Lothringer Hüttenverein Aumetz-Friede, In: Albert-Gieseler.de
  11. ↑ Mosel Steamship Company Kramer, v. Reden`s German German Railway and Steamship Book. A paperback for travelers, shareholders, company officials, innkeepers, merchants and business people of all kinds. Freiherr Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden. Berlin 1845, published by Adolf Gumprecht. in Google Book Search
  12. ↑ history of the company GBT, In: gbt.de
  13. ↑ Quint - A portrait of Christian Gallon, the former mansion now serves as a home for the "Haus Tobias" kindergarten , In: SWR.de
  14. ^ The children of the Kraemer family from Quint, oil on canvas, by Louis Krevel around 1839/1840, Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier, In: rlp.museum-digital.de
personal data
SURNAME Kraemer, Heinrich Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraemer, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ironworks owner and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1876
Place of death Trier-Quint