Johann Adolf Engels

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Johann Adolf Engels (* August 20, 1767 in Kettwig ; † October 16, 1828 in Werden ) (deviating: * August 20, 1764; † July 14, 1828 ) was a German paper manufacturer.

Life

Johann Adolf Engels was the son of Hermann Wilhelm Engels (1734–1776), cloth merchant and founder of the coal trading company “St. Ludger und Companie ”, whereby the Ruhr shipping could be opened. His mother was Cäcilia Margaretha (1742–1805), a daughter of the businessman Heinrich Speck from Urdenbach near Düsseldorf .

He attended the community school in Kettwig and then continued his self- education . He received a business education at the company Böninger in Duisburg and later founded that with in common with his three brothers, a write trading business Delstern nearby paper mill was associated that he leased from 1795 to 1798.

Furthermore, since 1797 he operated the Nümbrechtsmühle in Nümbrecht in the former imperial rule of Homburg and in 1799 leased the Holsterhausen paper mill near the town from the Werden Abbey . In addition to writing paper, he initially produced green concept or printing paper, the color of which had already been added to the pulp or rags. Then he tried to make waterproof and fireproof paper. As the first German papermaker, he made rust-proof wrapping paper (a forerunner of plastic film), which used to come from England and Holland, from old ship ropes and received a patent from the grand ducal Bergisches Land for it. The continental barrier raised sales. In 1810 he decided to set up his Holsterhausen plant entirely for the production of rust-protecting wrapping paper, which was mainly purchased by the Solingen steel manufacturers. For this he was awarded the commemorative coin at the exhibition of commercial products in Berlin in 1822 . He also invented a type of paper that was very suitable for copperplate engravings ; for this purpose he published the work "The trip to Werden, Duisburg and Essen", in which some copper engravings were printed on his paper.

Together with Karl Teschemacher, he leased the paper mill in Sodingen and the Strünkeder paper mill in 1810 .

In 1817 Johann Wülfing from Scheidlingsmühle near Düsseldorf joined his company as a partner, which was now developing favorably.

He became a councilor in Werden and, in 1814, Landsturm commander of the Werden district.

Johann Adolf Engels was in Hohenlimburg in his first marriage from 1791 to Katharina Margaretha (1773–1805), a daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Böing (1737–1779) from Hohenlimburg; this was the brother of Johann Heinrich Conrad Böing (1740-1815), the great-great-grandfather of William Edward Boeing , the founder of the Boeing aircraft factory. They had a son together:

  • Carl Ludwig Engels.

In his second marriage, he was married to Luise, a daughter of the watchmaker Peter Daniel Schmitz from Solingen, from 1806 in Solingen. From this marriage there were three sons and one daughter:

  • Peter Adolf Engels;
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Alexander Engels;
  • unknown;
  • unknown.

Works (selection)

  • Johann Adolf Engels; Gerhard Anton Senger: Attempt to evaluate the proposal made by the preacher [Gerhard Anton] Senger zu Reck to make paper from Conferva or water wool . Essen: Bädeker, 1800.
  • A few remarks on the materials of a papermaker's order to be redrafted . 1805.
  • Notes on engraved paper . 1806.
  • A useful facility (a cash register to support sick journeymen) . 1806.
  • On the state of paper production in the Prussian countries on the other side of the Weser and proposals for the inclusion of the same on July 8, 1806 . 1806.
  • About the production of the engraving paper, the improvement of the postal, writing, printing and all fine white papers, the rolled bookbinding cardboard and the English and Dutch wrapping paper May 13, 1806 . 1806.
  • About paper and some other technical and industrial objects . Duisburg and Essen at Bädecker und Abbreviation, university bookstore 1808.
  • The trip to Werden, Duisburg and Essen . Baedecker and abbreviation 1813
  • Monuments of nature and art, religion and history, shipping and action in the royal-Prussian Lower Rhine-Westphalia. Provinces A reader for all classes . Are on box d. Ed. 1817.
  • An attempt at a history of religious enthusiasm in the former Duchy of Berg . Schwelm: Joke 1826.
  • Collection of small writings on subjects of civil life, history, religion and natural history. With 6 lithographic plates . Crefeld 1827.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans. Seventh year 1829, p. 38 . Voigt, 1831 ( google.de [accessed February 17, 2018]).
  2. ^ German biography: Engels, Johann Adolf - German biography. Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The history of the Ruhr shipping and its repercussions on Bochum. Retrieved on February 17, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ GEDBAS: Johann Adolf ANGEL. Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Christiane Graßt, Julia Husmann, Peter Marx: The beautiful Ruhr valley curvature: Friedrich Adolph Krummacher in Kettwig 1807 - 1812, p. 57 . BoD - Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-3-943322-00-2 ( google.de [accessed February 17, 2018]).
  6. ↑ GEDBAS: Katharina Margarethe BÖING. Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
  7. ↑ GEDBAS: Johann Heinrich Conrad Boeing. Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
  8. ^ Imperial privileged Reichsanzeiger, February 12, 1805, pp. 513-520 . 1805 ( google.de [accessed February 17, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Engels, Johann Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engels, Johann Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Kettwig
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1828
Place of death Become