Ludwig August Riedinger

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Ludwig August Riedinger, around 1875
Letter from 1897 to the Geismann Fürth brewery with a lithograph of the works of the L. A. Riedinger Maschinen- und Broncewaaren-Fabrik Actien-Gesellschaft
Company sign on the pedestrian bridge in Lindau train station

Ludwig August Riedinger (born November 19, 1809 in Schwaigern ; † April 20, 1879 in Augsburg ) was a German entrepreneur.

Life

family

Riedinger's father Johannes (1756–1823) was a tailor by trade, while his mother Susanna Magdalena (1776–1824) was the daughter of a farmer. On May 13, 1833, Riedinger married the surgeon's daughter Wilhelmine Spellenberg (1813-1865) in Heidenheim, with whom he had three daughters and three sons, including August Riedinger , who later succeeded him in the company. Another son, Erwin Riedinger (1870-1936), a writer in Munich, comes from the second marriage with Margarethe Friederike Fretscher (1845–1924), daughter of a bath and surgeon, from Kempten.

education

From 1824 to 1827 Riedinger learned the trade of a carpenter in Güglingen and Öhringen and then worked first as a journeyman in Ludwigsburg , then in 1829 as a model carpenter in the Hartmann brothers' cotton mill in Heidenheim an der Brenz . In 1832 he became foreman in the Herbrechtingen branch, specializing in spinning technology.

Professional career

On July 1, 1839, Ludwig August Riedinger joined Emil Bourcart as spinning mill director as 1st carding master (spinning master) at the Augsburg mechanical cotton spinning and weaving mill (SWA), which was licensed in 1837 . At the end of 1842 he was appointed technical director. The upswing that the SWA took in the period that followed is largely due to him. By founding a company health and pension fund, he contributed to the development of social measures.

In 1846 Joseph Anton von Maffei delivered his steam engine No. 16 was the first of a total of ten deployed to the company until 1916. In late March 1847, the first purchase of cotton was made directly in America. In 1848 , Director Riedinger's philanthropic attitude avoided unrest among the workers. Consultations on the statutes of a newly founded health benefit and pension fund were carried out in 1849.

Entrepreneur

After visiting the world exhibition in London from August 1, 1851 to September 30, 1851 , Riedinger brought innovations with him through which cotton spinning and weaving could be improved and at the same time cheaper. In 1852, the previous deputy, Johann Boley, took over the technical management of production. Director Riedinger fell out with the management of the SWA and resigned as an employee on July 25, 1852, although his great skills and achievements were fully recognized. He then co-founded mechanical spinning and weaving mills in Augsburg , Bamberg , Bayreuth , Erlangen , Esslingen am Neckar , Cologne , Kolbermoor , Kulmbach and Worms .

As technical director of the Augsburg mechanical cotton spinning and weaving mill (SWA), Riedinger was already responsible for the gas lighting of the textile factory. The acquaintance with Max von Pettenkofer led to a collaboration between the two in the field of lighting with wood gas . In 1851, Riedinger and Pettenkofer, together with senior building officer Pauli, completed the lighting of Munich Central Station with wood gas. In 1852/53 Riedinger built his first gas works in Bayreuth , followed by the gas supply for Bamberg in 1855 . In total, Riedinger is responsible for gas lighting in 25 cities in Bavaria and another 42 in Germany, Switzerland, Austria-Hungary and Russia. To manage his gas works, the entrepreneur founded the Gesellschaft für Gasindustrie in Augsburg in 1864 with a share capital of 2 million guilders.

At the same time, he founded a gas apparatus factory in Augsburg in 1857, which later became the L. A. Riedinger Maschinen- und Broncewaaren-Fabrik Actien-Gesellschaft and in the same year acquired the remains of the Adler locomotive from the Ludwigs-Bahngesellschaft with the tender, but without wheels and other attachments . In 1862 Riedinger acquired the Imhofhaus in downtown Augsburg and replaced it by a representative new building (so-called Riedingerhaus ) in the neo-renaissance style by 1865 . In 1878 he bought the Hotel Drei Mohren in Augsburg .

Riedinger's factory had almost 1,000 employees in 1892. It merged in 1927 with the Augsburg-Nuremberg machine factory and was continued as LARsche bronze goods factory for lamps until 1967 .

Honors

Riedinger received numerous honors for his services, including the Bavarian Knight's Cross of Saint Michael and the Belgian Leopold Knight's Cross . He was also made an honorary citizen of Augsburg (1850) and Coburg (1854).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.hdbg.eu/koenigreich/web/index.php/objekte/index/herrscher_id/2/id/636
  2. ↑ https://www.hdbg.eu/koenigreich/web/index.php/themen/index/herrscher_id/3/id/28
  3. ↑ http://www.albert-gieseler.de/dampf_de/firmen2/firmadet20644.shtml
personal data
SURNAME Riedinger, Ludwig August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwaigern
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1879
Place of death augsburg