Johann Matthäus Voith

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Johann Matthäus Voith (born April 29, 1803 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ; † April 22, 1874 there ) was a member and co-founder of the Voith locksmith family and the company of the same name from Heidenheim.

Life

Johann Matthäus Voith was born on April 29, 1803 as the son of the locksmith Johannes Voith in Heidenheim an der Brenz. After his father's death in 1825, he took over his locksmith's workshop in Hinteren Gasse with five employees. Gradually he moved his workshop to the grinding mill that his father had bought in the nearby Brenz in 1822. At first he developed spinning machines , synthetic wool machines and printing machines and made orders, additional and spare parts for paper mills and textile companies in the area. In 1833 he married his wife Johanna Mundigel. He had four children with her, including Friedrich Voith (1840–1913), who later took over the metalworking shop.

In 1837 he moved with his family to the Schleifmühle, which was now also used as an apartment, and sold the house on Hinteren Gasse. Together with his neighbor Heinrich Voelter (1817–1887), who ran a paper mill there, he built a wood grinder in 1852 . Now it was possible for Voelter to mass-produce pulp paper. In order to improve Voelter's paper quality, Johann Matthäus Voith invented the refiner in 1859 . This machine helped to refine the splintery coarse material of the wood pulp. In 1864, Voelter commissioned him to build a new one and thus to renovate his paper mill. For this he procured machine tools and expanded his locksmith's shop to include a foundry . In the same year, his son Friedrich joined the company and it was expanded again to include a lathe for turning rolls for paper production. On January 1, 1867, Johann Matthäus Voith handed over the company with around 30 employees to his son Friedrich Voith. He gave it the name JM Voith, which the company still bears today.

According to a local council protocol of September 28, 1849, his fortune in 1849 was over 7,000  florins , eight years later it was already estimated at 15,000 florins.

literature

  • The district of Heidenheim . tape 1 and 2 Jan Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2002, DNB  957716044 .
  • Hanns Voith: 100 years of Voith . JM Voith GmbH, Heidenheim 1967, DNB  458544361 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Paul Gehring: Johann Matthäus Voith (1803–1874) and Friedrich Voith (1840–1913). Creator of a world company for the construction of paper machines and water turbines . In: Württemberg commission for regional history, Hermann Haering (Hrsg.): Swabian life pictures . tape 5 . Kohlhammer, 1950, ISSN  0170-0928 , DNB  1036016587 , p. 293-313 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Voith (1840-1913) , on archiv.ub.uni-stuttgart.de, accessed on May 27, 2020
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lexikon-werkzeuge.de
  3. ^ Karl Weller, Viktor Ernst: Wuerttemberg necrology for the year 1913 . Ed .: Württembergischer Geschichts- und Altertumsverein. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1916, DNB  012722154 , p. 93 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Anne Nieberding: Corporate culture in the empire. The JM Voith foundry and the paint factories vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co (=  series of publications for the journal for corporate history . Volume 9 ). Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49630-X , p. 34 .
personal data
SURNAME Voith, Johann Matthäus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German machine manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1874
Place of death Heidenheim an der Brenz