Julius Ruetgers

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Lambertus Hermann Julius Rütgers (born July 11, 1830 in Bensberg , † September 6, 1903 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur.

life and work

His father, the Prussian cadastral officer Martin Rütgers, founded the first German impregnation institute for railway sleepers in Neuss in 1847 . The impregnation was still carried out according to the French pattern with sulfur barium and iron vitriol or with copper vitriol. (In 1838 the London lawyer John Bethell (1804–1867) acquired patent no. 7731 for his wood preservation process with creosote in the boiler pressure process.) However, as a result of the revolution and the halting railway construction of the Aachen-Düsseldorf railway company , his father quickly became insolvent.

Julius Rütgers left school early. In 1846 he began his agricultural training at Gut Wilkau , south of Breslau. In 1848 he became the manager of the property of the Rhineland Schoeller brothers near Breslau.

In 1849 he took over the debts and the work of his father, and put it back into operation. Following an order from the Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn , he founded his own impregnation plant in Essen in the spring using Bethell's tar oil process.

The Rütgerswerke emerged from this first company . In 1854 Rütgers shifted its focus to Silesia , Wroclaw became the company's headquarters and place of residence. From here he was mainly responsible for railway construction in the east and south-east of Germany and Europe.

“During this period, the production of tar on the Continente increased so much through the expansion of the gas works and the construction of hard coal coke ovens with tar production that in 1859 I was able to take the decision to build the first large tar product factory in Germany near Berlin eight more followed in 1898. "

- Julius Rütgers, 1899

He built this first tea product factory from 1860 in Erkner . It was one of the first industrial tar distillations in Germany - only the much smaller asphalt factory of Ernst Sell in Offenbach am Main , which existed from 1842 to 1856 and from which the Oehler tar paint factory emerged in 1850 , was older - and remained the largest in the country until the beginning of the 20th century. The tar waste from the gas works in Berlin and the surrounding area was mainly processed here. By 1899, Rütgers had built 77 impregnation plants in large parts of Europe, which soaked the sleepers for thousands of kilometers of railway lines with tar products from Erkner and other company-owned distillations. In 1872 Rütgers moved the company headquarters to the new capital of Berlin , more precisely to the neighboring town of Charlottenburg at the time .

Julius Rütgers managed his company until his death. On September 6, 1903 he died unexpectedly in his Berlin house and was buried on September 9 at Luisenfriedhof II in Berlin-Westend . Only a few months later, on December 20, 1903, his only son and successor Rudolph Rütgers (born on September 17, 1860 in Breslau) died.

The Rutgers Chemicals GmbH in Castrop-Rauxel was established in December 2007 by Evonik sold to the financial investor Triton.

Appreciation

The Julius-Rütgers-Strasse in Erkner and the inland tanker TMS Julius Rütgers , built in 2005 in the Triton shipyard for the Jaegers shipping company, are named after Rütgers .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great Britain. Patent Office 1876: Patents for inventions. Abridgements of specifications relating to grinding grain and dressing flour and meal, AD 1623-1866 page 12
  2. ↑ New ways were our beginning. We go to them to this day.
  3. ↑ Press release February 18, 2005 on the shipping company's website , accessed on March 31, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Ruetgers, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rütgers, Lambertus Hermann Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensberg
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1903
Place of death Berlin