Heinrich Voelter

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Heinrich Voelter (born January 1, 1817 in Heidenheim , † September 13, 1887 in Heidenheim) was a German inventor and paper manufacturer .

Life

Heinrich Voelter grew up in his native town and went to primary school there , where he was taught by his grandfather Philipp Jakob Voelter (1757-1840). At the age of 14 he began an apprenticeship as a businessman in a Heidenheim weaving and dyeing factory . He also learned the art of papermaking from his father Heinrich Bernhard Voelter (1784–1847), who ran a paper mill on site .

After completing his apprenticeship, Voelter went to Carl Friedrich August Fischer in Bautzen to apply and complete his knowledge at his paper factory. During his stay in Saxony he met Friedrich Gottlob Keller (1816–1895), from whom he took over a patent for paper production from wood pulp in 1846 , which he further developed so that the industrial production of paper from wood was possible (until then, paper was made from Rags made). From 1848, after the death of his father and his return to his hometown, he was helped by the Heidenheim locksmith Johann Matthäus Voith (1803–1874), who in 1852 initially designed two spindle grinders for the Voeltersche paper mill.

Voelter and Voith have now jointly sold wood grinding shops to paper mills all over the world. B. also for the paper mill Kübler and Niethammer in Kriebstein in Saxony. After Voelter's paper factory burned down in 1864, paper production in Heidenheim was finally stopped (paper had been produced in Heidenheim since 1530). Voith AG , founded by Johann Matthäus Voith, still develops and produces paper machines for international customers today.

At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867 , Voelter, in collaboration with the Gebr. Decker & Co. machine factory, showed a fully operational wood grinding system. Gebr. Decker and Voelter were awarded the gold medal for this.

Heinrich Voelter was a member of the parliament in Stuttgart from 1856 to 1861 .

Honors

  • The city of Heidenheim honored Heinrich Voelter by naming a street after him.

estate

  • Letters, patents, paper samples, notebooks and drawings from the estate of Heinrich Voelter in N 43 (Adolf Benedello) in the Westphalian Economic Archives in Dortmund.

Fonts

  • Heinrich Voelter: About the representation of paper stock made of wood. In: Kunst- und Gewerbeblatt of the polytechnical association for the Kingdom of Bavaria , 51 (1865), Sp. 494–504.
  • Heinrich Voelter: Mittheilungen about the representation of paper stock made of wood according to the patent of Heinrich Voelter. 4th edition Heidenheim 1867.

literature

  • Adolf Benedello: Keller-Voelter. The introduction of wood pulp in the paper industry. Edited by the paper mill cable. Hagen Cable 1957.
  • Eugen Gaus : memorial to Heinrich Voelter, paper manufacturer from Heidenheim a. Brenz on his 100th birthday, January 1, 1917. Heidenheim 1917.
  • Ernst Raithelhuber: Heinrich Voelter and the development of the wood grinder. In: Papiergeschichte , Vol. 16, 1966, pp. 1–18.
  • Ernst Raithelhuber: Heinrich Voelter. Pioneer of wood grinding. Paper manufacturer in Heidenheim an der Brenz. 1817-1887. In: Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia. On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg ed. by Max Miller and Robert Uhland. Stuttgart 1966 (10th volume of the series opened as Schwäbische Lebensbilder), pp. 388–414.
  • Lothar Suhling : Heinrich Voelter - paper made of wood. In: Swabian inventors and inventors. Edited by Jörg Baldenhofer. Stuttgart 1986, pp. 47-53.
  • Who was actually ... Heinrich Voelter , in: Schlossblick , ISSN  1860-8329 , No. 2, 2006, p. 9 ( full text as PDF, 296 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Weimert: Treatise on the history of paper production in Heidenheim ( Memento from September 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Ernst Raithelhuber: Heinrich Voelter. Pioneer of wood grinding. In: Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia. Stuttgart 1966, p. 406.
  3. ↑ Ursula Jennemann-Henke: paper history. Inventory for the holdings N 43 (Adolf Benedello), N 47 (Hoesch family) and F 146 (Stora Kabel GmbH). Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Foundation, Dortmund 1999, p. 20 and p. 53–69.


personal data
SURNAME Voelter, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German inventor and paper manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1887
Place of death Heidenheim an der Brenz