Lorenz Schöttler

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Lorenz Schöttler (full name: Friedrich Lorenz Schöttler ; born January 18, 1801 in Göttingen ; † March 23, 1864 in Braunschweig ) was a German baker, innkeeper, engineer and Graeflich-Stolberg machine inspector as well as factory owner, mechanical engineer and entrepreneur. Among other things, he constructed one of the first steam engines in the Kingdom of Hanover and is one of the pioneers of industrialization in what is now Lower Saxony .

Life

Friedrich Lorenz Schöttler was born in 1801 in Göttingen at the time of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover and still in the Electorate of Hanover . He grew up in the so-called French era and learned the bakery trade. In the 1820s he married in Osterode am Harz in an inn and a drapery. In the city, which is now in the Kingdom of Hanover , he initially worked primarily as an innkeeper, but also repaired his father-in-law's textile machines. Soon others became aware of Lorenz's technical skills, which gave him further orders.

Finally, Friedrich Lorenz Schöttler went through further training, completed an apprenticeship as a mill builder in the Netherlands .

After the end of his wandering , Schöttler took over a mechanical workshop in Oderfeld near the Upper Harz mining town of Bad Lauterberg that produced nails, screws and springs . However, Schöttler also made the town of Oderfeld one of the starting points for industrialization in the Hanoverian kingdom: after the mechanic Carl August Klindworth had already built a 1 hp steam engine in Hanover for the Linden municipal hospital in 1831 , Lorenz Schöttler constructed it in the Harz for the leather factory August Söhlmann developed the first steam engine in what would later become Lower Saxony, which was used in a commercial company. Schöttler's 5 HP self -made construction was shown as an exhibit at the first Hanoverian trade exhibition organized by the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover in 1835 - and then presumably in operation in the Söhlmann leather factory until 1860.

Lorenz Schöttler moved to the city of Magdeburg around 1840 . When the local entrepreneur Samuel Aston offered his Magdeburg machine factory and iron foundry Gebrüder Aston & Co. for sale, Lorenz Schöttler suggested that Count Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode take over it and, after the acquisition, received the order from the Count to manage the factory.

During his time in Magdeburg, Schöttler was also particularly concerned with innovations in technical systems for extracting sugar. In 1844, in Carl Helle's sugar factory in Sudenburg, near Magdeburg, he first tried to throw the filling compound in a centrifuge for sugar extraction.

Finally, in 1845, Lorenz Schöttler bought his own property in Sudenburg on Halberstädter Chaussee , in order to found the iron foundry and mechanical engineering company Schöttler & Co. there in 1846 with his son Wilhelm Schöttler .

In 1850 Lorenz Schöttler was a member of the committee of the provincial trade fair in Magdeburg . In 1852 he left the partnership with his company Schöttler & Co. , went on a journey through Braunschweig and decided to retire there. But first he bought a piece of land in the city and in 1853 became a citizen of Braunschweig by acquiring civil rights . In parallel, he had already in 1852 and to 1853 - together with the active in Brunswick businessman and Councilor Frederick soul machine and - and other Wagenbauanstalt , foundry and sawmill Friedrich soul & Co. founded. Only a few years later he left the newly founded company in 1856, his health already limited. Presumably he temporarily withdrew to his son's estate in Marzhausen near Göttingen. Shortly before his death, Lorenz Schöttler returned to Braunschweig with his son, where he died on March 23, 1864.

Friedrich Lorenz Schöttler was buried in the Magnifriedhof in Braunschweig, where his tomb, which was unusual for the time, has been preserved; a monolith as an upright stone house rock with a cube on top with an inscription.

literature

  • Magdeburgische Zeitung of March 2nd, 5th and 6th, 1846 and May 9th, 1850
  • Wilhelm Schöttler: The origin and development of the Braunschweigische Maschinenbau-Anstalt , 1878
  • Gottfried Drenckmann: Chronicle of the Drenckmann family, typescript [ undated , private property]
  • Small encyclopedia of Land-Forst-Garten , 1960
  • Friedrich Armbrecht: The mechanical engineer Friedrich Lorenz Schöttler (1801-1864). An autodidact and social climber of the 19th century. In: Heimatblätter for the south-western edge of the Harz , ed. from the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Osterode / Harz und Umgebung eV, Osterode 1990, ISSN 0175-7040
  • Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Nobility in Saxony-Anhalt. Court culture between representation, entrepreneurship and family , Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau, 2007, passim ; Preview over google books

Archival material

Archives by and about Lorenz Schöttler can be found, for example

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ In Albert Lefèvre (see there) only "Schöttler, P." is mentioned.
  2. ↑ Deviating from this, the manufacturer of the steam engine is referred to on Albert Gieseler's website as "Schottler"; compare dens .: August Söhlmann, Lederfabrik on the page albert-gieseler.de [ undated , 2009?], last accessed on April 21, 2017
  3. ↑ In addition to the supplemental data differs in the specified Labouvie birth year "1800" from other sources from

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Robert Schreyer, Bernhild Vögel: Schöttler, Friedrich Lorenz in the collection of biographies on the website of the University of Magdeburg, edited on March 1, 2005, last accessed on April 21 2017
  2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ^ A b Albert Lefèvre: Keyword Schöttler, P. , in ders .: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 24 (1970), Issue 3/4, pp. 186, 273f.
  4. ↑ MBL: Schöttler, (Friedrich) Lorenz , in Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE), 2nd, revised and expanded edition, vol. 9, p. 165; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ Konrad Pusch, Axel Thiem: Aston, Samuel in the collection of biographies on the website of the University of Magdeburg, edited on January 8, 2004, last accessed on April 21, 2017
  6. ^ Robert Schreyer: Schöttler, Friedrich Wilhelm in the collection of biographies on the website of the University of Magdeburg [undated], last accessed on April 21, 2017
  7. ↑ J. Stoll (photos): Gravestones / Histor. Magnifriedhof Braunschweig / This grave site shows: Schöttler, Friedrich Lorenz * 1801, + 1864 on the website of the Association for Computer Genealogy
personal data
SURNAME Schöttler, Lorenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schöttler, Friedrich Lorenz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1864
Place of death Braunschweig