Mathieu Elie Matthes
Mathieu Elie Matthes (born February 20, 1808 in Rotterdam , † January 11, 1868 in Duisburg ) was a chemical industrialist.
His parents were the businessman Ernst Matthes (1773–1824) and Maria Gysberta Johanna Snoeck (1780–1857); his brother Karel (1806-1888).
Matthes worked as a commercial clerk in Friedrich Wilhelm Curtius ' sulfuric acid factory in Duisburg. At Curtius's suggestion, he founded the Matthes & Weber soda factory on July 1, 1838, together with the businessman Carl August Weber . The following year he married Curtius' daughter Bertha Anna Wilhelmina (1816-1884).
To process the hydrochloric acid produced into chlorine and chlorinated lime, he founded the fourth Rhineland chlorinated lime factory in 1848 ; In 1863 a second soda factory was built.
As a result of low prices for shipments and low import duties on soda products, British competition was able to flood the German market. In 1856, under Matthes' chairmanship, the Soda Convention was concluded, with which the four members divided the sales markets ( area cartel) and set uniform sales prices (price cartel). His wife meanwhile played piano with the young Max Bruch , who dedicated a Fantasia to her.
After his death, his widow initially became a partner in Matthes & Weber until their brothers Julius and Friedrich Eduard Curtius became shareholders in 1874. In 1870 Weber's son Julius also succeeded Weber .
The son Friedrich Georg Ernst Matthes (1848–1906), owner of a cotton mill in Düsseldorf, married Louise Agnes (* 1853), daughter of the shipowner Christian Heinrich Wätjen , in 1873 .
literature
- E. Matthes & Weber AG (ed.): The development of a chemical factory in a hundred years. 1838-1938. Duisburg 1938.
- Elisabeth Komar: Matthes, Mathieu Elie. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 401 f. ( Digitized version ).
Footnotes
- ↑ Chronicle
- ↑ Friedrich Georg Ernst Matthes, * around 1848 in Duisburg , in the local family book Bremen and Vegesack, accessed on March 2, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matthes, Mathieu Elie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Entrepreneurs in the chemical industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1868 |
| Place of death | Duisburg |