Johann Dinnendahl

Johann Dinnendahl (born June 6, 1780 in Horst (today a part of Essen ), † October 28, 1849 in Minden ) was a designer and inventor during the early industrial revolution . In 1820 he founded an iron smelter in Mülheim an der Ruhr , from which the first coking coal - fired blast furnace in the Ruhr area later emerged.

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Johann Dinnendahl was the son of a mill tenant and attended the village school. From 1800 to autumn 1811 Johann worked with his brother Franz Dinnendahl in his workshop in Essen. Then mechanic Johann Dinnendahl went into business for himself and set up a mechanical workshop in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In this workshop steam engines with an output of up to 40 horsepower were manufactured, the quality of which was valued far beyond the borders of Mülheim. Around 1815 he headed the Wiesche and Rosenblumendelle mines and was involved in them, as in other mines. In 1819 and 1820 he also founded an iron smelter together with his brother Franz. His plans also called for the construction of a coking coal blast furnace based on the English model, but initially he lacked the necessary capital. Together with the Ruhrort businessman Friedrich Wilhelm Liebrecht as a financially strong partner, he applied for a license for two blast furnaces with coke operation in 1832. One of them was supposed to be built next to the iron smelter in Mülheim and was named Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte based on Liebrecht's first name . Johann Dinnendahl left before the blast furnace construction began.

Johann Dinnendahl withdrew from Mülheim and founded an iron foundry for Grille in Minden. He witnessed the first tapping in 1848, when pig iron was first made in a coke oven here in the Ruhr area.

literature

• Hedwig Behrens: Mechanic Johann Dinnendahl (1780-1849): builder of steam engines, founder of the Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte in Mülheim an der Ruhr . Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1974.
• Ulrike Laufer: They brought the steam engine to the Ruhr - The brothers Franz (1775-1826) and Johann Dinnendahl (1790-1849) in: Horst A. Wessel (Ed.): Mülheim entrepreneurs: Pioneers of the economy. Business history in the city on the river since the end of the 18th century . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-645-2
• Manfred Rasch: Johann Dinnendahl and the founding of the Friedrich-Wilhelmshütte 200 years ago; In: Stahl und Eisen , Volume 131 (12/2011), pages 89-94 and Volume 132 (01/2012), pages 72-75
• Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen / Historical Association for the City and Abbey of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
• Karl Mews:  Dinnendahl, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 732 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Homepage of the Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte in Mülheim an der Ruhr