Joseph Losenhausen

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Joseph Losenhausen (oil painting)
Joseph Losenhausen ( 60 années de machines "LOS": 1880–1940. Düsseldorf 1940.)
Residential building at Tonhallenstrasse 16 in Düsseldorf (Architects and Engineers Association of Düsseldorf (publisher): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904.)

Joseph Losenhausen (born February 2, 1852 in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim ; † July 11, 1919 at Gut Breitenbend near Linnich ; full name: Robert Franz Joseph Losenhausen ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur. The Losenhausen'sche Hebezeug- und Transportanlagenfabrik , which he founded , achieved "international recognition in the field of construction machinery". The most famous employee was the engineer Wilhelm de Fries .

history

Life

Joseph Losenhausen was born the son of Ferdinand Losenhausen (1818–1888, innkeeper in Gerresheim) and Gertrud Losenhausen (* 1831). On his father's side he was the grandson of the innkeeper Heinrich and Anna Gürten; On the mother's side he was the grandson of the innkeeper Joh. Joseph Türff and Anna Catharina Josepha Esser. Since 1879 Joseph Losenhausen was married to Karoline (1858–1924), the daughter of the landowner Schüller in Korrenzig near Jülich. They had four children, two sons and two daughters. Among them was Ferdinand Paul Losenhausen (1880-1944), district court director in Aachen, city councilor and member of the provincial parliament and the Prussian parliament (for the DVP).

job

After Joseph Losenhausen had attended school, he did an apprenticeship in the iron, tool and machine trade. In this branch he worked from Düsseldorf for an Amsterdam company as a travel agent (travel engineer). He also made suggestions for improvement and patent-ready suggestions for his company. After he got married in 1879, he left his job as a travel engineer.

Joseph Losenhausen's workshop on Talstrasse in Düsseldorf around 1850 ( 60 années de machines "LOS": 1880–1940. Düsseldorf 1940.)

In mid-1880, he set up a small craft business with seven workers on Talstrasse in Düsseldorf. It was an iron trade with a manufacturing plant and a brass foundry in Düsseldorf. In 1889 he bought a plot of 6500 m² in Grafenberg. There he built his main plant, a factory with around 70 workers at first. The company was entered in the commercial register on January 11, 1882 .

The company was active in the iron and machine trade, besides it produced equipment and fittings, among other things for shipbuilding and mining, in particular condensate pots, lubricators, valves, pumps and measuring instruments, etc. From 1882 to 1895 he acquired patents for his company. From 1889, cranes, trolleys, cable winches, scales and testing machines were also produced at the new location in Düsseldorf-Grafenberg. At the Düsseldorf industrial and trade exhibition in 1902, the company presented portal cranes, elevators, transmission systems, freight cars and material testing machines.

In 1897 Losenhausen converted his company into a stock corporation with a capital of 1 million marks, which was now known as Düsseldorfer Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft. J. Losenhausen traded. At first he was the only member of the board, in 1900 he switched to the supervisory board of the AG, which he chaired. The main part of the turnover was made up of the trade in machines, apparatus and fittings as well as tools. In contrast, the production of condensate pots, lubricators, valves, hand feed pumps, etc., declined. Losenhausen started to manufacture scales and hoists, pulley blocks, trolleys and cable winches. Materials testing machines evolved from scales and hoists that measure and move loads. At the Düsseldorf industrial and trade exhibition in 1902, Losenhausen presented an extensive range of testing machines. Two further branches of manufacture later developed from the testing machines: the construction of balancing machines and the construction of soil compaction machines.

After the turn of the century, Losenhausen withdrew more and more from his company. From 1913 he turned to expanding his estate Breitenbend, which he bought in 1908. In 1926 the company was renamed Losenhausenwerk, Düsseldorfer Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft . The company existed under this name until 1985.

Residential building

For the years 1897 and 1899, the Düsseldorf address book for Tonhallenstr. 16 the manufacturer JR Losenhausen. The Düsseldorf architects and engineers' association praised the facade design and floor plan of the house, which was built before 1895. While the architects and engineers' association only mentions the Düsseldorf architect Leo von Abbema , Wilhelm Kick mentions Bernhard Tüshaus in addition to Abbema . Since the building was enclosed on two sides by the permanent park of the municipal sound hall , a special floor plan solution was chosen:

"The property at Tonhallenstrasse 16 is enclosed on two sides by the garden of the municipal Tonhalle, and in the case of the house built here by the architect von Abbema, this neighborhood of a permanent park was decisive for the floor plan."

- Architects and Engineers Association of Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 408 .

  • Floor plans of the floors (Architects and Engineers Association of Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Düsseldorf and his buildings . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904.)

  • (Tonhallenstraße) 16 Losenhausen JR Factory owner E. (from the address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1897, second part., P. 719).

  • (Tonhallenstrasse) 16 Losenhausen JR Manufacturer E. (from the address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1899, second part, p. 781).

reception

Heiner Vossen describes Joseph Losenhausen's "willingness to innovate":

“Josef Losenhausen was 28 years old and had the idea of ​​founding a craft business. Little did he know that a hundred years later this company would take a leading role in the field of advanced construction machinery. Because he first traded in machines, apparatus, tools, valves, hand pumps and [...] Losenhausen had a sure sense of market opportunities: His enthusiasm for innovation shaped the spirit of the company, and so it is thanks to him that the company later changed itself turned to the little-researched area of ​​'vibration technology'. That was the 'sparking impulse' for the technology of compaction machines. Because at the turn of the century, foundries were already experimenting with compacting molding sand on vibrating tables. "

literature

  • Clemens von Looz-Corswarem:  Losenhausen, Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 196 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Josef Wilden: 60 years of the Losenhausen factory, 1880–1940. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1940.
  • Losenhausenwerk Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Hebezeug-Album. (Cranes, elevators, hoists of all kinds, transport and loading devices) Düsseldorf-Grafenberg 1914

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Clemens von Looz-Corswarem:  Losenhausen, Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 196 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Hugo Weidenhaupt (ed.): From the royal seat to the official city (1614–1900). (=  Düsseldorf. History from the origins to the 20th century . Volume 2 ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-491-34222-8 , p. 562 .
  3. ↑ Ralph Grauel: 75 years of technical development 1880–1955. (Festschrift for the 75+ year existence) Stalling, Oldenburg 1955, p. 15 f.
  4. ^ Address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1897. Second part., P. 719.
  5. ^ Address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1899. Second part, p. 781.
  6. ^ A b Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 407 and 408 (407 - [Fig. 647 Tonhallenstrasse 16], [Fig. 648 Tonhallenstrasse 16, lower ground floor], [Fig. 649 Tonhallenstrasse 16, raised ground floor], [Fig. 650 Tonhallenstrasse 16, upper floor]).
  7. ^ Wilhelm Kick (ed.): Modern new buildings . 2nd year. Stuttgart architecture publishing house Kick, Stuttgart 1898.
  8. ↑ Heiner Vossen: “In 1980 we were 100! At this age you have a lot of experience. It's just like the street: GREAT INVENTIONS HAVE A LONG-TERM EFFECT. ”In: Straßen und d. Life path of Losenhausen; since 1880 , Düsseldorf 1980.
  9. ↑ opac.bib-bvb.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / opac.bib-bvb.de
personal data
SURNAME Losenhausen, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Losenhausen, Robert Franz Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf-Gerresheim
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1919
Place of death Breitenbend near Linnich