Hugo Schoellkopf

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CP Hugo Schoellkopf (born July 6, 1862 in Buffalo , † February 24, 1928 in New York City ) was an American chemist and entrepreneur . He was a pioneer in the American tar paint industry .

Life

Hugo Schoellkopf was born as the fifth son of the German emigrants Jakob Friedrich Schöllkopf (1819–1899) and Christine Sophie Schöllkopf. Born dry. Jakob Friedrich Schöllkopf emigrated to the USA in 1841 after learning the tanner 's trade in Germany . Here he rose to become a major leather manufacturer and mill operator and gained a worldwide reputation through the establishment of the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company to use the hydropower of the Niagara Falls on the American side.

After Hugo Schoellkopf had initially received private tuition, he attended Engelmann's School in Milwaukee and St. Joseph's Academy in Buffalo. In 1877 he attended secondary school in Stuttgart , which he graduated with honors. In 1880 he switched to studying chemistry at the Technical University of Stuttgart , where he became a member of the Corps Stauffia like his brother Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf junior . In 1885 he returned to the USA and, along with his brother Jacob Frederick, became a partner in the Schoellkopf Aniline and Chemical Company founded by his father in 1879 . In 1900 he became CFO of Schöllkopf, Hartford & Hanna Co. , in which the Schoellkopf's three paint factories in Buffalo, New York City and Philadelphia had been consolidated. In 1902, the Schoellkopf brothers were the first in the USA to start producing sulfuric acid using the contact process and nitric acid and hydrochloric acid using patented processes. The sulfuric acid business developed so positively that in 1904 it was spun off as a separate entity into the Contact Process Company .

Schoellkopf was also involved in various companies. He was co-director of the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company and director of the Niagara Junction Railway Company . He acquired the Niagara Sprayer Co. in Middleport, New York, which soon became a leading company for the manufacture and dry spraying of crop protection products in the USA.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and various social and commercial associations. In 1890 he married Emily F. Annette of Fort Lee, New Jersey . The son Alfred Hugo emerged from the marriage. Schoellkopf found his final resting place in the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo.

literature

  • Biographies for Jacob F. Schoellkopf, Sr., Louis Schoellkopf, Arthur Schoellkopf, Jacob Schoellkopf, Alfred Schoellkopf, CP Hugo Schoellkopf, and Henry Juengling. On: archivaria.com
  • Diane Glynn: The Schoellkopfs, 1842-1994, A family history , 1995.
  • Carl Heydt: Chronicle of the Corps Stauffia zu Stuttgart , 1960, p. 132 (short biography of Hugo Schoellkopf)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Keil:  Schöllkopf, Jakob Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 374 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ JN Larned: A History of Buffalo , 1911, pp. 28-30.
  3. ↑ The History of Niagara Sprayer, Middleport, New York ( Memento from February 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

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personal data
SURNAME Schoellkopf, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoellkopf, CP Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1928
Place of death New York City