Heinrich Friedrich Gottlob Flinsch

Heinrich Friedrich Gottlob Flinsch (born March 21, 1802 in Blankenberg ; † January 20, 1865 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German paper merchant, co-founder of the Ferdinand Flinsch paper trade with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and buyer of the Frankfurt Dressler foundry.

family

His father Adam Erdmann (1757–1828) was the tenant of a paper mill in Blankenberg and had several children. The eldest son was Ferdinand Traugott Flinsch (1792–1849), a German entrepreneur, paper manufacturer and paper dealer. He was the founder of the paper trading houses Flinsch, which were formerly located in various places in Germany. In 1819 he and his younger brother Heinrich founded the Flinsch paper trading company in Leipzig. In 1821 the two owners took their brother Carl August (1799–1877) into the business.

Flinsch paper trade in Frankfurt am Main

In 1827 a branch was opened in Offenbach am Main, which was moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1828 and Heinrich Friedrich Gottlob Flinsch took over the management. He moved from Leipzig to Frankfurt and thus became the founder of the southern German tribe of Flinsch, which has its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and had commercial branches under the name Ferdinand Flinsch in Stuttgart, Munich and Düsseldorf.

Ferdinand Flinsch - paper maker

In 1834 his brother Ferdinand Traugott Flinsch also became a producer. He took over the paper mill in Penig from Gustav Franz Käferstein and had an English paper machine installed there. From 1842 to 1843 Ferdinand Traugott Flinsch, together with his other brother Johann Christian, also converted their father's paper mill in Blankenberg , of which he had since become a co-owner, into a machine paper factory. Ferdinand Traugott Flinsch died on November 11, 1849 in Leipzig at the age of only 57. After his death, the Leipzig business with the paper mills in Blankenberg and Penig was passed on to his brother Carl August, his eldest son Gustav Ferdinand († 1875), his daughter and his widow Henriette (1798–1861), whom he in Leipzig in 1820 as a daughter of the council accountant Gottlieb Winkler had married. Her son Alexander Flinsch (1834–1912) took over the Berlin paper mill and also made a name for himself as a recognized painter. In 1872, 22 years after the early death of Ferdinand Traugott Flinsch, the paper mill in Penig was formed into a public limited company. The publisher and bookseller Rud was one of the founders of the AG. Brockhaus, Leipzig (supervisory board member). At that time it was the largest paper mill in Saxony. The AG took over the paper, straw and gas factory from Ferdinand Flinsch. She owned other paper mills in Reisewitz and Wilischthal / Zschopau, a rag sorting facility in Geithain and a wood pulp mill in Selva . Most recently represented in the AR: Aschaffenburger Zellstoffwerke AG , Dresdner Bank and Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt . Stock exchange listing Dresden, later Leipzig. Today the paper factory is a factory of Technocell-Dekor , a 100% subsidiary of the Felix Schoeller Group , Osnabrück. Only high-tech special papers for the surface finishing of wood-based materials, e.g. B. Chipboard and fiberboard manufactured and delivered worldwide.

Dressler's foundry later Flinsch

Brother Heinrich Friedrich Gottlob Flinsch (1802–1865) married Ernestine Johanna Elisabetha Eheodore Friederike Heyer and in 1859 acquired the Dressler foundry in Frankfurt, which had been founded in 1827. In 1864 his son Heinrich Karl Ferdinand Gottlob Flinsch (born July 2, 1839–1921) becomes a partner. In 1865, the year the branch in St. Petersburg was founded, his father Heinrich Friedrich Gottlob Flinsch died.

Flinsch type foundry in Frankfurt am Main

The son Heinrich Karl Ferdinand Gottlob Flinsch (1839–1921) becomes the sole owner. In 1868 he left his roots as heir to a paper manufacturer and renamed the company as the Flinsch type foundry, which developed into a global company in the 19th century. In the north end of Frankfurt, the Dressler type foundry emerged in the street "Eisernen Hand 12", a cross street of the Eckenheimer Landstrasse, one of the few important industrial companies in the Free City of Frankfurt. As early as 1867, 250 workers and employees were producing around 2.5 million letters a week here. The first complete casting machine is installed in Germany in 1872. The foundry soon encompasses 85 casting machines (including 15 complete machines), over 100,000 steel punches, over 200,000 matrices (including many made of steel and nickel silver), a galvanoplastic facility with 2 dynamo machines, our own carpentry shop for the production of book printing plants, as well as all wooden devices, type cases, Shelves, our own smelter for refining and alloying the metals to be processed. The Flinsch type foundry had a branch in Petersburg since 1865 with 12 casting machines and agencies in Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Bucharest, Florence, Geneva, Copenhagen, Lisbon and London. It was not until 1912 that the St. Petersburg branch was sold to H. Berthold AG , which was later liquidated in 1993.

Heinrich Karl Ferdinand Gottlob Flinsch (1839-1921) was 25 years of City Council of the City of Frankfurt and settled in 1869 by the famous architect Karl Jonas Mylius a villa in Frankfurt's West End, where according to his relatives Heinrich Mylius, originally Heinrich Müller (1769 1854) called Myliusstraße 25. In 1899 he had a summer villa built in Königstein below the Romberg on Rombergweg, which the Frankfurt department store king Hermann Wronker later acquired. His younger brother Wilhelm Flinsch († 1928), partner and councilor of commerce, had a villa built by the architects Mylius & Bluntschli in Westendstrasse 61 in 1873.

Bauersche type foundry merges with type foundry Flinsch

In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, he sold the company to the young businessman Georg Hartmann (1870–1954), who merged the company with his newly acquired Bauer foundry and relocated its headquarters to a new building in Frankfurt-Bockenheim.

Honor

In Frankfurt-Seckbach, a street was named after the Flinsch type foundry, which developed into a global company in the 19th century under his son Heinrich Karl Ferdinand Gottlob Flinsch (1839–1921). Their origins lie in the acquisition of the Dressler foundry by Heinrich Friedrich Gottlob Flinsch.

tomb

Flinsch family grave in Frankfurt's main cemetery

Heinrich Friedrich Gottlob Flinsch was buried in the Frankfurt main cemetery, Gewann E 105, 106, which was laid out in 1828. The family burial site still exists today and is a listed building.

literature

Friedrich W. Süs: The trading house Ferdinand Flinsch: memorial book for its fiftieth anniversary celebration on April 20, 1869. Mahlau & Waldschmidt, Frankfurt am Main 1869.

Heino Castorf: The patent paper factory in Penig. A contribution to the history of paper. Wohlfeld, Magdeburg 1897.

o. V .: The roll of paper. History of paper production in Blankenberg. Commission publisher Ferd. Götze, Lobenstein (Reuss) 1920.

Andreas Hansert: Georg Hartmann (1870–1954), biography of a Frankfurt art caster , bibliophile and art patron. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78322-0 .

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Flinsch, Heinrich Friedrich Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur, paper dealer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Blankenberg
DATE OF DEATH	January 20, 1865
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Dressler foundry, Frankfurt-Nordend, Eiserne Hand 12

[2] The expansion of the Flinsch type foundry

[3] Villa Flinsch by the architect Carl Jonas Mylius

[4] Villa Romberg in Koenigstein