Joseph Hallbauer

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Joseph August Hallbauer (born November 23, 1842 in Zittau ; † April 18, 1922 in Kötzschenbroda ) was a German mechanical engineer and manager in the iron and steel industry.

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Born in 1842 as the son of the Saxon railway clerk Anton Hallbauer (1814-1891; later member of the Royal Directorate of the Western State Railway ), Joseph Hallbauer attended grammar school in Freiberg, studied at the Dresden Polytechnic and subsequently completed an apprenticeship at the state railway administration . In parallel, he received additional training in the Saxon machine factory of Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz.

Sponsored and supported by Hartmann, Hallbauer went to La Salle (Illinois) (USA) in 1866 to the machine works of Frederick Matthiessen and Edward Hegeler (later Matthiessen & Hegeler Zinc Comp. ). He returned in 1868, and in the same year he was sent to Russia as Hartmann's representative. As a lobbyist he made the acquaintance of the industrialist Alfred Krupp , who recruited him for his company. Hallbauer initially worked for the Krupp company mainly in Saxony and Thuringia and represented them in Saint Petersburg from 1874 . Here Hallbauer, together with a partner already resident in Russia under the company Wächter & Co., safeguarded the interests of his client and secured him, especially during the Russo-Turkish War (1878), by traveling to the Caucasus and getting in touch with the Russian field master, the Grand Duke Michael, big jobs.

Hallbauer moved back to Sächsische Maschinenfabrik in 1884 and took over the management of the four plants in Lauchhammer , Riesa , Gröditz and Burghammer with headquarters in Lauchhammer, which Gustav Hartmann had offered him , although he had neither training nor practical professional experience in the iron and steel industry. Nevertheless, he was very successful in this new position: after several attempts, he introduced the Siemens-Martin process for smelting and converted the operations to lignite briquette combustion by opening up the Lauchhammer pits I to III . In 1912 he initiated the construction of a larger company-owned power station and pushed ahead with the expansion of the electricity industry with the construction of the 110 kV line Lauchhammer-Riesa . The first use of lifting magnets in the Lauchhammer ironworks goes back to him.

Hallbauer retired in 1913, but as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Lauchhammer Group he kept in touch with the factories that had been closely associated with him for over three decades until his death . In 1914, he accepted an invitation from one of his American friends to travel to New York and the West Indies and sailed around the southern tip of South America.

Hallbauer carried the honorary title of a Privy Councilor of Commerce . The Technical University of Dresden awarded him an honorary doctorate in engineering (Dr.-Ing. H. C.). He also wore the Knight's Cross of the Saxon Order of Albrecht , the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle and the Prussian Order of the Crown III. Class .

He last lived in the Villa Saxonia , now a listed building , at Meißner Straße 241 (formerly Meißner Straße 32) in Kötzschenbroda .

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  1. ^ According to the address book of Dresden and suburbs. 1915. Part VI, p. 182.
  2. ↑ according to the address book Kötzschenbroda 1922/23, written information from the Radebeul City Archives to user: Jbergner on October 25, 2010
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SURNAME Hallbauer, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hallbauer, Josef; Hallbauer, Joseph August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, ironworker and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1922
Place of death Kötzschenbroda