Johann August Neumeister

Johann August Neumeister (* 1730 in Wurzbach , † 1802 in Zwickau ) was a calico printer . He founded and ran the first Saxon calico printing factory in Plauen .

Life

Autograph by the calico printer Johann August Neumeister

He was the eldest son of Joseph August Neumeister, Hammerherr zu Klettigshammer near Wurzbach. He learned the calico printing trade from Johann Heinrich Schüle in Augsburg, where he worked as a shape cutter around 1750 . In 1754 he accepted an offer from Plauen cotton merchants to set up his own calico printing plant in Plauen . With the support of the dealers and the Plauen council, a calico printing factory was established in the following years. The enormous demand for printed calico allowed Neumeister to generously expand his print shop. In 1776 he had a castle-like, pre-industrial production building built, which has been preserved as Weisbach's house to this day.

In 1783 the calico printing factory was taken over by a partnership from Plauen cotton goods dealers. Neumeister was a member of this partnership and was now director of the calico printing plant. Despite this solution, there were repeated conflicts between those involved in the following years. In 1794 Neumeister sold his shares in the calico printing company, which was continued by Ernst Wilhelm Conrad Gössel , among others , and left Plauen. He moved to Zwickau, where he and his sons took over the calico printing shop of Carl Heinrich Caspari.

literature

• Frank Luft: The history of the first Saxon calico print manufactory in Plauen . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter, Heft 2, 2014, Verl. K. Gumnior Chemnitz, pp. 126–132.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louis Bein: The industry of the Saxon Voigtland: economic history study . Volume 2, published by Duncker & Humblot, 1884, p. 64 ff.