Julius Pintsch

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Julius Pintsch (1815-1884)

Julius Carl Friedrich Pintsch (born January 6, 1815 in Berlin ; † January 20, 1884 in Fürstenwalde ) was a German master plumber and entrepreneur . The Pintsch gas system and the Pintsch buoy are named after him.

Education and independence

Julius Pintsch completed an apprenticeship as a plumber by 1833. As a journeyman he went to an old custom of the wandering and spent three years in Dresden worked. Back at home in Berlin, Pintsch worked for five years at Koeppen & Wenke , a lamp and lacquerware factory. During this time he passed the master's examination at the Berlin plumber's guild and on April 26, 1843 , he founded  his own small workshop in a basement room at Stralauer Platz 4 in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

The city of Berlin had decided at the time to build its own gas supply specifically for street lighting, and set up for another gasworks at Stralauer Platz, so very close to the workshop of Julius Pintsch. As a result, he received repair orders from the Berlin gas works ( Gasag ) and in this way came into contact with gas technology at an early stage. Much of the equipment that had been imported from England at great expense up to that point was in need of repair, so that Julius Pintsch's idea of ​​producing better fittings and apparatus was obvious. In 1847 he presented a carefully built gas meter of his own design.

Rise to industrialist

From the middle of the 19th century until the company's founder died

In 1848 Julius Pintsch acquired the house at Stralauer Platz 6/7 and had a factory built in which the new measuring devices could be mass-produced. However, it took several years before the Berlin magistrate awarded him an order for 50 gas meters in 1851. The superior quality of these devices then led to further orders from other cities and even from abroad. The need was immense because gas meters were a necessary requirement for installing gas lighting in private homes.

The order situation developed so positively in the following years that Pintsch was  able to open a factory at Andreasstrasse 73 in 1863 . He now traded under the name of a manufacturer of gas meters and gas appliances , and his brother Richard Pintsch had set up another producer of gas meters in the same building on the second floor. and initially employed 60 workers. With this extension, Julius Pintsch laid the foundation for the company's steep ascent. In order to better supply customers in the German provinces, branches were set up in Dresden in 1866 and in Breslau in 1867 . From 1867/1868 Julius Pintsch even produced underwater mines . A five-storey administration and production building was built at Andreasstrasse 71-73 in Berlin.

The advancing spread of gas lighting soon gave rise to the idea of ​​using this form of lighting as a replacement for the paraffin or stearin candles that had existed up to now, as well as the rape oil lamps in railroad cars. After many attempts, the Julius Pintsch company succeeded in producing an oil gas made from animal and vegetable fats , which was a suitable light source. The oil gas could be pressed without losing its luminosity in order to obtain an adequate supply based on the relatively small storage container. An additional benefit of oil gas was that a flame fed with it only needed half the gas as a coal gas flame. The first attempts took place in the late 1860s. Due to the war of 1870/71 , however, they had to be interrupted. After the gas tanks, pipelines and especially the pressure regulators had been designed differently, they met the requirements of tough everyday use and were the first to be installed in the cars of the Lower Silesian-Märkische Railway in 1871 . The production of gas lighting in railway wagons came to an abrupt end in 1924 with the Bellinzona railway accident . Here 15 passengers burned to death in a train equipped with Pintsch products. - In the course of the entire product development, several important patents related to gas lighting in railroad cars were created.

Steam heating systems for railway wagons and - only in Europe - incandescent gas burners were also produced. In order to be able to cope with the increasing number of large orders, the neighboring property and the adjacent tramway arches on Andreasstrasse were included and finally a branch was built in Fürstenwalde in 1872 . In 1890 this factory was expanded to include the Pintsch brothers' light bulb factory; which in 1936 had around 12,000 employees.

In 1884 the family opened a branch factory in Frankfurt-Bockenheim .

Another important line of production were buoys illuminated with gas light . In 1877 the first Pintsch light buoy was laid out in the Kronstadt Bay . In 1908 there were 2,396 so-called “Pintsch buoys” on the coasts and waterways of all the world's oceans. The Suez Canal was also secured for the first time with 105 Pintsch buoys, so that passage was also possible at night.

From 1884 to 1945

Julius Pintsch's sons Richard (1840–1919), Oskar (1844–1912), Julius (1847–1912) and Albert (1858–1920) continued the family business after his death in 1884. The private company survived the stock market crisis of the recession years 1873 to 1895 unscathed, and in 1907 the companies in Berlin, Fürstenwalde and Frankfurt were converted into a stock corporation , Julius Pintsch AG, with a share capital of 18 million marks .

A Pintsch plant in Austria even produced aircraft . The most famous machine was the Julius Pintsch AG Vienna SCHWALBE II ; it flew in the interwar period with the Austrian air force with the registration number "OE-TAA".

Continuation of parts of the company

In the 21st century there is PINTSCH ABEN BV as the successor company, one of the leading manufacturers of point heating and safety systems in the field of maritime traffic technology. It was founded in 1994 by PINTSCH BAMAG Antriebs- und Verkehrstechnik GmbH, Dinslaken and SINUS ABEN BV, Zeist. The company is headquartered in Maarssen, the Netherlands, with a branch in Dinslaken.

Examples of products from Julius Pintsch Aktiengesellschaft

  • Original gas meter from 1899, manufacturer Julius Pintsch AG Berlin in the Gas Museum in Warsaw

  • Drawing of the train wagon from 1895 with gas lighting by Julius Pintsch

  • Drawing of the dining car from 1895 with gas lighting by Julius Pintsch

  • Light barrel structure by the company Julius Pintsch, Berlin-Fürstenwalde, German Museum of Technology, Berlin

  • The brightest lighthouse in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is on the island of Greifswalder Oie . From 1911 to 1914 he received a new lantern house from Pintsch.

History of buildings

At the beginning of the 20th century, Pintsch had Julius Pintsch Aktiengesellschaft , several square meters in white, applied to a blackened facade on the gable of the administration building in Andreasstrasse , which was easily recognizable from the railway line that passed by. This home advertisement survived into the late 2010s.

After the end of the Second World War , the Julius Pintsch company was expropriated and VEB Vehicle Equipment Berlin moved into the building from 1950 . Equipment for rail vehicles was now being built in the production halls. The listed building has been unused since 1997 . In 2018, a buyer was found for the property who will convert it into an office and commercial building.

family

Pintsch family grave in Berlin

Julius Pintschs second son Oskar and his wife Helene Pintsch (1857-1923) donated in 1905 to cripple children's medical and welfare association for Berlin-Brandenburg , the 1914 in Berlin-Zehlendorf the Oskar-Helene-Heim for healing and education frail children opened . It had served as a hospital for almost 100 years before it was merged with Behring Hospital.

The Pintsch family had an imposing Doric temple built as a tomb in the St. Georgenfriedhof on Greifswalder Straße in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg .

Honors

Pintschstrasse in Berlin-Friedrichshain namesake Julius Pintsch

In 1878 Julius Pintsch was given the honorary title of Royal Prussian Commerce Councilor. In addition, Julius Pintsch gave its name to the Pintschstrasse in Berlin-Friedrichshain and the Julius-Pintsch-Ring in Fürstenwalde.

monument

In Bad Flinsberg in Lower Silesia in the Jizera Mountains , Pintsch's friends built a boulder with a relief image of the entrepreneur.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commerzienrath Julius Pintsch †. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . No. 5, February 2, 1884, p. 46, accessed December 23, 2012.
  2. ↑ Pintsch, CFJ = manufacturer of gas meters and gas apparatus; Pintsch, Richard = gas meter manufacturer . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1872, I, p. 582.
  3. ↑ a b Ralf Schmiedecke: Berlin-Friedrichshain. The archive images series . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-86680-038-X , p. 60.
  4. ↑ a b c Jochen Knoblach: The plumber from Stralauer Platz . In: Berliner Zeitung (print edition), August 10, 2018, p. 6.
  5. ^ Sea mark from the Julius Pintsch company from Fürstenwalde
  6. ↑ Pintschstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Pintsch, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pintsch, Julius Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1884
Place of death Berlin