Karl Martin Ludwig Schetelig

Karl Martin Ludwig Schetelig (born March 6, 1808 in Lübeck ; † January 31, 1881 there ) was a German industrialist.

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Karl Martin Ludwig Schetelig was a son of the Lübeck clock and instrument maker Christian Hermann Schetelig (* September 21, 1774 in Schönberg ; † August 2, 1859 in Lübeck) and his wife Anna Dorothea Christina, née Lücke (* May 20, 1784; † July 9, 1850). The paternal grandfather was the Schönberg pastor August Friedrich Schetelig. The maternal grandfather was the Schönberg pastor Johann Adolph Lücke. The doctor Jacob August Schetelig was an uncle.

In 1837 an unknown person ruled that Schetelig was a hardworking mechanic who had acquired a broad knowledge of the subject himself. However, the type of training he had undergone is not documented. At the beginning of 1837 he submitted an application to the Lübeck City Council for approval as a mechanic and, in particular, a mechanical engineer. In the city, Person has been supporting industrial companies for a long time. In doing so, they often came into conflict with the right of prohibition of the craftsmen organized in guilds. The Lübeck council therefore examined Schetelig's request comprehensively. On October 4, 1837, he received the concession for a machine factory. The council formulated it in such a way that objections from the craft offices were almost impossible. The business promoters were publicly happy about the defeat of the guild restrictions. In the 1840s, Schetelig quarreled with the carpenters in court over the delivery of Jaquard looms. The process went to the Higher Appeal Court, where a settlement was reached.

On October 17, 1837, Schetelig received citizenship in Lübeck. In 1838 he had 10 employees with a large number of orders. In 1840 he repaired the boilers of the steamship "Naslednik" of Lübeck-St. Petersberger Dampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft and a Rostock steamship. In the following year he installed new boilers in the traverse steamship "Mercur". In 1843 he created a so-called Zweibrücken toggle-lever printing press. This device for a company from Reval could be viewed in the house of the council printer Schmidt .

Schetelig wanted to expand his business and add an iron foundry. He now worked with the Lübeck architect and businessman Georg Heinrich Kollmann (1807–1874), brother of Johannes Kollmann . Since the company's previous location did not allow any expansion, the partners bought the site of a former corn starch factory. On August 13, 1845, they received approval for the building plans in front of the Holsten Gate . From 1846 the entrepreneurs worked here and operated one of the first permanently installed steam engines with an output of 8 hp in Lübeck.

From 1848/49, Schetelig and his partner under the name Kollmann & Schetelig supplied the Lübeck state with machines for floating dredgers, which the company also repaired. The number of employees and sales were constantly changing. In 1854 between 52 and 75 people worked here, in 1869 a total of 90, of which half of the employees did not come from Lübeck. In 1870 the number of employees fell to 50. Kollmann & Schetelig produced constantly changing, new types of products in the foundry.

In 1841 Schetelig joined the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , of which his father had been a member since 1822. In 1861 he donated a model of a steam boiler to the trade school and made drawings available for lessons. In 1862 he joined the Association for the Promotion of Freedom of Trade in Lübeck. In 1868 he belonged to the Lübeck merchant class . In 1873 he sold his company to a bank consortium. This transferred it to the Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft, which later became the largest mechanical engineering company in Lübeck as a factory of Orenstein & Koppel .

family

Schetelig married Cecilia Catharina Henriette Harding on August 18, 1842 (* December 5, 1820 in Lübeck; † April 21, 1884 ibid). Her father Diedrich (Dirck) Heinrich Harding worked in Lübeck as a spice seller. The Schetelig couple had six sons and three daughters. They included:

• Heinrich Georg Christian (1843-1907). He worked as a manufacturer in Lübeck and owned the Schetelig & Nölck company.
• Sophia Maria Emilie (1850–1928) married the engineer and later director of the Lübeck mechanical engineering company Carl Bernhardt (1845–1906) in 1879 .

literature

• Herbert Schult: Schetelig, Karl Martin Ludwig . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6 - 1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , pages 262-263.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Herbert Schult: Schetelig, Karl Martin Ludwig . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6 - 1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , page 262.
2. ^ Herbert Schult: Schetelig, Karl Martin Ludwig . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6 - 1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , page 262.
3. ^ Herbert Schult: Schetelig, Karl Martin Ludwig . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6 - 1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , page 262.
4. ^ Herbert Schult: Schetelig, Karl Martin Ludwig . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6 - 1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , pages 262-263.
5. ^ Herbert Schult: Schetelig, Karl Martin Ludwig . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6 - 1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , page 263.
6. ^ Herbert Schult: Schetelig, Karl Martin Ludwig . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6 - 1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , page 263.
7. ^ Herbert Schult: Schetelig, Karl Martin Ludwig . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6 - 1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , page 262.