Louis Geyer

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Louis Ferdinand Geyer
Geyer's white factory in Łódź (now an industrial monument)

Louis Ferdinand Geyer ( Polish Ludwik Ferdynand Geyer , born January 7, 1805 in Berlin ; died October 21, 1869 in Łódź ) was a German-Polish industrialist. He was one of the pioneers of the textile industry in Łódź and Poland . He ran the first textile factory using steam engines in the Kingdom of Poland . Geyer built one of the largest textile factories in Poland in Łódź and primarily supplied the Russian market.

Life

Louis Ferdinand Geyer was born in Berlin to Adam Christoph Geyer and Sophie Charlotte Tietze.

In 1828 he came from Neugersdorf in Saxony to Congress Poland , where he initially stayed in Kalisz , Warsaw , Piotrków Trybunalski and Czestochowa before settling in Łódź . With him came his wife and parents. In 1833 he bought the property at 282 Piotrkowska Street in the Łódka factory settlement, where he set up a spinning and weaving mill. In 1840 he expanded his property and the land at ul. Piotrkowska 303-315 and ul. Piotrkowska 287-310 and expanded his business.

Between 1835 and 1837 Geyer built his “white factory” (today the Central Textile Museum) at ul. Piotrkowska 282–284. In 1838 the first steam engine was installed here in a Polish textile company.

Geyer's house, the Ludwig-Geyer-Palais at ul. Piotrkowska 284–286, has also been preserved.

Web links

Commons : Ludwik Geyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The development of Łódź industry. In: Jubilee magazine of the Lodzer Zeitung. Lodzer Zeitung, December 2, 1913, p. 31 , accessed December 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Leszek Skrzydlo: fabrykanckie Rody. Łódź: Oficyna Bibliofilów, 1999, pp. 25-28. ISBN 83-87522-23-6 .
  3. ↑ Krystyna Radziszewska: Niemieckimi śladami po "Ziemi Obiecanej" - On the German footsteps in the "Promised Land", Łódź no year, p. 197f.
  4. ↑ Krystyna Radziszewska: Niemieckimi śladami po "Ziemi Obiecanej" - On German footsteps in the "Promised Land", Łódź no year, p. 45f.
  5. ↑ Krystyna Radziszewska: Niemieckimi śladami po "Ziemi Obiecanej" - On German footsteps in the "Promised Land", Łódź, no year, p. 47.
personal data
SURNAME Geyer, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geyer, Louis Ferdinand; Geyer, Ludwik Ferdynand (Polish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Polish industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1869
Place of death Łódź