Holtzapffel (entrepreneur)

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Foot-operated grinding machine by John Jacob Holtzapffel, 1850

Holtzapffel was a London-based family of entrepreneurs who had specialized in the construction of lathes and tools for several generations.

Jean-Jacques Holtzapffel (born 1768 in Strasbourg; died 1835 in London) emigrated from Alsace to England in 1792 . He was the oldest of nine siblings. His parents were the wood turner Jean-Jacques Holtzapffel and Marie-Madelaine Schlalerin. First he worked in the workshop of the instrument maker Jesse Ramsden . He anglicized his name to John Jacob Holtzapffel. In 1794, he and Francis Rousset founded a company for the manufacture of tools and lathes in London. From 1804, Johann Georg Deyerlein, born in Mannheim , was a partner and the company worked under the name Holtzapffel & Deyerlein.

In 1795, Holtzapffel sold the first lathe; by the time of his death there were around 1,600 pieces. The workshop was located at 64 Charing Cross from 1819 to 1901.

In 1823 Peter Beuth visited the company in London on his trip to England. Another time in 1826, this time together with Karl Friedrich Schinkel .

From 1824 to 1829 August Hamann worked at Holtzapffel & Deyerlein, who later founded Prussia's first machine tool factory in Berlin .

John Jacobs son Charles Holtzapffel (1806–1847) joined the company in 1827. At that time the company operated under the name Holtzapffel & Co., the partner Deyerlein died in 1826.

After the death of John Jacob, the son Charles continued the business. He brought out the standard work on ornament turning, which after completion comprised 2750 pages. After his death in 1847, the company was continued by his wife Amelia until 1853. The company remained family-owned until it closed in 1928 when the last lathe was sold.

See also

Web links

Commons : Holtzapffel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mémoires de JD. Wooden apple on [1]
  2. ↑ . GStAPK, I. HA Rep 120 Ministry of Trade and Industry; DI No. 13
  3. ↑ Reinhard Wegner: The trip to France and England in 1826
  4. ↑ K.Häuser: The beginnings of machine tool construction in Germany; Workshop and factory 112 (1979) 8
  5. ↑ Holtzapffel, Charles: Turning and Mechanical Manipulation, London, Holtzapffel & Co. (Vol. 1 1843; Vol. 2 1846; Vol. 3 published posthumously 1850)

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '44.8 "  N , 0 ° 7' 42.4"  W.