Karl August Jacob

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Karl August Jacob

Karl August Jacob (born April 5, 1798 in Halle (Saale) ; † March 1866 there ) was a German entrepreneur , mainly in the sugar industry and in central German mining .

Life

Karl August Jacob was born as the son of the general practitioner Dr. Karl Gottlieb Jacob was born in Halle (Saale). After attending grammar school in Halle, he began a commercial apprenticeship in Leipzig . During his training he spent several years in Amsterdam and Braunschweig. In 1826 Jacob became a partner in the Friedr. Dürcking & Co. , which he later ran as sole owner. Together with Friedrich Dürcking and Ludwig Wucherer , Jacob was also active in economic policy in the Association for Halle Trade from 1832. In 1835 he was one of the founders of the Halle Zuckersiederei auf Aktien , which began growing sugar beet a little later . He took over the management of the sugar boiling plant at Hospitalplatz, which was the first modern industrial production facility in Halle to give important impetus to industrialization in other areas, such as mechanical engineering.

In terms of economic policy, Jacob advocated higher tariffs , especially on imported Dutch cane sugar . In the Prussian state parliament , to which he had been a member of the Old Liberal Middle Party since 1849 , Jacob vehemently advocated a lowering of the sugar tax . In 1850 he became a board member of the Association of the German Sugar Industry and was also a promoter of railway construction and the agricultural product exchange . In 1854 he acquired a large share of the shares in Sächsisch-Thüringische Braunkohlen AG. His closest friends included Ludwig Wucherer, Johann Gottfried Boltze and Carl Degenkolb , with whom he founded the Werschen-Weißenfelser Braunkohlen AG in 1855 as the main initiator and first general director .

Honors

From 1845 Karl August Jacob was chairman of the Halle city council and from 1849 chairman of the chamber of commerce. Alongside Ludwig Wucherer, he was one of the most important local and economic politicians in his hometown. Around 1890 a street in Halle was named after him.

literature

  • Erich Neuss : Karl August Jacob . In: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and for Anhalt (Hrsg.): Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder. Volume 3, Pictures of Life in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Self-published, Magdeburg 1928, pp. 373–391.
  • Erich Neuss: Karl August Jacob , Halle (Saale), 1929.
  • Hans Jaeger:  Jacob, Karl August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 215 ( digitized version ).
  • Sebastian Kranich : Mathäus Ludwig Wucherer, Carl August Jacob, Johann Gottfried Boltze, Carl Adolph Riebeck: Christian entrepreneurs in the Halle area . In: Ders., Peggy Renger-Berka, Klaus Tanner (Hrsg.): Deaconesses - Entrepreneurs - Pastors. Social Protestantism in Central Germany in the 19th Century , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02686-9 , pp. 83–118, here pp. 92–100.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Neuss: Karl August Jacob . Gebauer-Schwetschke printing and publishing house, 1929, p. 254.
  2. ^ Jacob, Karl August Deutsche Biographie , accessed on April 24, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Jacob, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH March 1866
Place of death Halle (Saale)