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Louis Bauermeister (born August 5, 1839 at Gut Richnau, Thorn district ; † June 21, 1927 in Zscherndorf ; full name: Johann Louis Adolph Bauermeister ) was a German entrepreneur and politician as well as a manor owner .

Life

Bauermeister attended the secondary school in Halle (Saale) from 1850 to 1857 . After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer and participating in the Franco-German War , he took over his father's mine, Deutsche Grube , in 1871 . This pit promoted since the 1840s lignite and brick clay, it was from 1907 in the legal form of a joint stock company with headquarters in Zscherndorf in Bitterfeld out.

Under Bauermeister's direction, the Deutsche Grube developed into one of the largest mining operations in the Bitterfeld mining area . With the refinement of lignite in the newly built briquette factories from 1871, Bauermeister increased national sales. He used the clay that was also mined as a raw material for brickworks and, since 1886, for clay pipe production. With the establishment of the Neu-Staßfurt salt mine in 1899 and the Chemische Werke Zscherndorf GmbH in 1903, Bauermeister became one of the founders of the chemical industry in Bitterfeld, from whose rapid growth at the turn of the century he benefited as a raw material supplier. Through his social commitment to his workforce, the workers' housing estate "Deutsche Grube" was built on the western edge of Bitterfeld with a school and a church. Bauermeister was also one of the pioneers of mining in the Lusatian lignite mining area with the establishment of a mine near Schwarzheide , even if this did not last long due to the high inflow of groundwater. In 1918 he sold Deutsche Grube to Agfa , which operated its film factory in nearby Wolfen .

MP

Between 1893 and 1912 Bauermeister was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Bitterfeld / Delitzsch, which he won in four consecutive elections. He belonged to the faction of the German Reich Party . Bauermeister was head of the Sandersdorf office and member of the Bitterfeld district council from 1872 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Schönfelder: Bitterfeld and the lower Mulde valley. A regional survey in the Bitterfeld, Wolfen, Jessnitz (Anhalt), Raguhn, Graefenhainichen and Brehna area. (= Landscapes in Germany, values ​​of the German homeland , Volume 66) Verlag Böhlau, Weimar et al. 2004, ISBN 3412038032 , page 335. ( limited preview of Google Books )
  2. ↑ From Louise XX to Ferdinand. In: Official Gazette for the City of Schwarzheide , Edition 02/2005 ( online as pdf; 1.1 MB)

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SURNAME Farmer, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauermeister, Johann Louis Adolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Richnau, Thorn district
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1927
Place of death Zscherndorf