Karl Gottlob Wolf

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Karl Gottlob Wolf (born February 7, 1808 in Langenau near Freiberg in Saxony , † after 1855 probably in St. Louis , Missouri ) was a German miner and pioneer of coal mining in the Lugau-Oelsnitz coal field .

Life

The son of a Untersteigers attended the Freiberg mountain school and worked for several years as a drawing teacher before he worked as a foreman at the Lauchhammer ironworks from 1825. Wolf then worked as a works manager, steiger and mechanical engineer (mountain factor) at the fiscal hard coal mine "Junge Wolfgang" in Oberhohndorf , then in various positions at several mines. On one of his trips back home, Karl Gottlob Wolf personally examined the "Struth" area around Oelsnitz in the Ore Mountains , where coal had been found by the princely = Schönburg forest officer Wey while digging drainage ditches, but all mining attempts failed due to a lack of specialist knowledge and suitable material were. Wolf also recognized that Oelsnitz was located on a mountain of coal.

In 1843 Karl Gottlob Wolf gave up his job in the mining industry to look for coal himself near Oelsnitz. With 26 participants, mostly relatives from Lichtenstein / Sa. he founded a "small company in equal parts" and moved to Oelsnitz. On a plot of land that belonged to the landowner Neuoelsnitzer Hösel, Wolf began first on September 7, 1843 Schacht abzuteufen . A short time later, this shaft was abandoned due to the water inflow that could not be managed and a second shaft, the “Wolfschächel”, started. On January 7, 1844, the first hard coal was extracted from this shaft from a depth of around 10 m . The seam encountered was around 1.70 m thick . The wolf box was near the pond house in Neuoelsnitz , on which a memorial plaque is attached. Due to a lack of financial resources, Wolf could not continue the coal mining industry. His company became part of the “God's Blessing” union through several successors and acquisitions .

In 1846 he was awarded an honorary prize of 200 thalers by the Kingdom of Saxony for his work. He also received a patent (then invention protection letter) for white enamel which he sold for $ 400.

In 1854 Karl Gottlob Wolf emigrated to St. Louis, a letter from 1855 - he was sick with yellow fever - was his last sign of life and was then considered missing. His wife lived in Neuoelsnitz Fräuleingasse 3 until December 1861

literature

  • Rolf Vogel: The Lugau – Oelsnitzer coal field . Ed .: Förderverein Bergbaumuseum Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. eV Hohenstein – Ernstthal 1992, p. 12-16 .
  • Arthur Hörig: Karl Gottlob Wolf, the founder of the Lugau-Oelsnitzer hard coal mining . In: NS-Lehrerbund Kreisverwaltung Stollberg (Hrsg.): The Oelsnitzer coal mining . 1st episode. Berthold Estel, Oelsnitz / Erzgebirge 1938, p. 3-15 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Hübsch, Ulrich Winter: Oelsnitzer Lexikon - Volume 1 , Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. 2008, p. 70
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Karl Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miner, pioneer of coal mining in the Lugau-Oelsnitzer coal field
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenau near Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH after 1855
Place of death unsure: St. Louis