Johann Georg Wilhelm Chess Troop

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The Schachtrupp villa in Osterode, built from 1819

Johann Georg Wilhelm Schachtrupp (born December 24, 1801 in Osterode am Harz , † April 29, 1864 in Braunschweig ) was a German lead manufacturer . The company he ran until 1854 was an important economic factor from 1812 to 1879 far beyond the borders of Osterode.

Life

The son of the mountain trade factor Johann Friedrich Schachtrupp (1773-1822), who founded the white lead factory at Scheerenberg in the Upper Harz in 1812, attended the Latin school in Osterode, which from 1814 belonged to the Kingdom of Hanover . In 1823 he was granted citizenship in Osterode and in 1828 the title of mining trade factor. Schachtrupp was accepted into the Osteroder Merchants' Guild in 1835 and made a senior factor in 1839.

The Schachtrupp white lead factory

Schachtrupp took over the family business in January 1822 after the sudden death of his father and expanded it by buying land on Lindenberg and opening a branch in Quedlinburg . The product range of the Schachtruppschen factory included Kremserweiß and lead white, black lead , lead sugar , rolled lead, copper vitriol , verdigris and shot , which was produced in a high tower. In the period from 1830 onwards, up to 8,500 quintals of lead and 2,000 quintals of litharge were sold per year. The white lead used as a white pigment was superior to English in terms of opacity and durability and was exported to Holland, Northern Germany, America, Asia and Africa. According to another source, 100 to 130 employees produced 160,000 quintals of lead-containing products, which were shipped to Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, North and South America, Turkey, London and Paris. The Turkish fleet is said to have been painted with Schachtrupp's white lead in 1839. Schachtrupp was committed to the welfare of its employees. For example, gardens and orchards were laid out below the factory for the workers to use. In addition, there were social benefits in the event of illness or after work accidents, which made a great impression on contemporaries:

"The greatest interest in Osterode [...] arouses the famous Scheerenberg, in a mercantilist-factory respect the strangest place and the greatest establishment in the whole of Harze."

- CG Fr. Brederlow: The Harz. For instruction and entertainment for Harz travelers. Braunschweig 1846, p. 545.

In 1854 he handed the company over to his son from his first marriage, Johann Friedrich Schachtrupp, and moved to Braunschweig. From 1857 he lived there on the promenade at Hohenthore . He died in Braunschweig in April 1864. The company collapsed in 1879 after falling sales in 1839 due to competitive pressure from abroad. In addition, maintaining the buildings and parks required a high financial outlay.

Chess Squad Villa

The name Schachtrupp is still known in Osterode today primarily for the classicist entrepreneurial villa of the same name , which Johann Friedrich Schachtrupp had built from 1819 with echoes of Palladio's villas. The four flat gabled fronts of the cube-shaped structure imitate the forms of stone construction. A low roof structure serves to illuminate the central open spiral staircase. The people of Osteroder jokingly refer to the building as a coffee mill . The city acquired the villa in 1858 and used it temporarily for the Osteroder high school.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen / Lower Saxony, Deutscher Kunstverlag , 1977, p. 754.
  2. ↑ CS Schweitzer: Travel Guide for the Harz Mountains , 2nd edition, Berlin 1852, p. 194.
  3. ↑ Thuringia and the Harz , printing and publishing by Friedrich August Eupel, Sondershausen 1839, p. 137.
  4. ^ Bergit Korschan-Kuhle: Schachtrupp, Johann Georg Wilhelm . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 513 .
  5. ↑ Communications of the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover , Hanover, year 1857, column 185.
  6. ↑ Thuringia and the Harz , printing and publishing by Friedrich August Eupel, Sondershausen 1839, p. 138.
  7. ^ Brunswick address book for the year 1857 : Entry Schachtrupp, Wilh., Oberfactor, Promenade am Hohenthore 3026.
  8. ↑ Braunschweig address book for the year 1863 : Entry Schachtrupp, Wilhelm, Oberfactor, Promenade am Hohenthore 11.
  9. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen / Lower Saxony, Deutscher Kunstverlag , 1977, p. 754.
  10. ↑ Website of the city of Osterode (accessed October 13, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Chess troop, Johann Georg Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German white lead manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterode am Harz
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1864
Place of death Braunschweig