Jacques Ravené
Jacques Ravené (* 1751 in Berlin ; † 1828 there , also Jacob or Jakob Ravené ) was an iron caster and iron wholesaler in Berlin and founder of the Jacob Ravené company .
Life
Jacques Ravené was a descendant of Huguenot refugees from France. While the Ravené family initially worked intensively on horticulture, his father Pierre (1723–1798) became a bell and brass caster . Son Jacques therefore received training in the iron foundry.
On August 14, 1775 he married Dorothee, the daughter of Albrecht Butzer, who died shortly afterwards, and continued to run the hardware store "Samuel Gottlieb Butzer", founded in 1722 by his father-in-law.
At the same time, he continued his job as an iron caster and was now able to set up his own foundry. The first company site was on the dismantled fortifications . This early industry was on the outskirts of the city, where there were no immediately neighboring houses that were annoyed by noise and smoke, and the former fortress moat enabled fuel, raw ore and the products produced to be transported by water. The property was located in Berlin-Mitte on Wallstrasse near the Grünstrasse bridge.
In 1804 he volunteered for the French community in Berlin as director of the school for the poor (École de Charité).
In the first decades of the 19th century, the company's own production was stopped. Trade was better and easier to do with than the dirty and expensive production of iron parts. The following generations acquired extraordinary wealth and became known as the "Iron Kings of Berlin".
In 1824 he handed over management of the company to his sons Karl Peter (1777–1841) and Pierre Louis Ravené (1793–1861).
Jacques Ravené was buried in the cemetery of the French community in Berlin. The grave no longer exists.
literature
- Felix Escher : The Ravené family. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 220 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Konrad Beck: The Ravenés . In: Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin . Volume 81 Issue 3. Berlin 1985, p. 310-313 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Willi Wohlberedt : Directory of the graves of well-known and famous personalities in Greater Berlin, Potsdam and the surrounding area . tape 1 . Self-published, Berlin 1932.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ravené, Jacques |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ravené, Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1751 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1828 |
| Place of death | Berlin |