Moritz Honigmann

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Moritz Honigmann (born June 24, 1844 in Düren , † May 2, 1918 in Aachen ) was a German chemist , inventor and entrepreneur .

Live and act

The son of the miner and mine owner Eduard Honigmann (1809–1886) and Maria Boelling (1811–1878) as well as the grandson of the mining authority director Johann Ehrenfried Honigmann (1775–1855) attended the technical colleges in Berlin , Zurich and Karlsruhe and entered the Stolberger district Atsch preferred chemical plant Rhenania , which later in the Kali Chemie some influence. Honigmann was operations manager here from 1866 to 1868 and developed a modern laboratory system for the production of ammonia soda using the Solvay process . When the management of Rhenania AG refused to use this modern and technically superior process on a large scale for the production of soda , Honigmann founded the first German ammonia soda factory on the grounds of the Königsgrube in Grevenberg , a suburb of Würselen , in 1871 , for which his Father owned a development license. However, his father had already sold the Koenigsgrube colliery itself to the Association for Hard Coal Construction in the Wurmrevier in 1869 . In his newly founded factory, Honigmann developed a fireless soda locomotive in 1883 , which was used by the Aachener and Burtscheider horse-drawn railway company in Aachen between June 1884 and March 1885 , and which also ran briefly on the Aachen-Jülich railway between Würselen and Eschweiler-Aue . However, this construction method could not prevail and soon disappeared from the public. In 1912, Honigmann finally sold his factory to the Solvay group .

In 1885, two specialist journals refer to the technical description and further development of the soda kettle he put into operation

He then devoted himself entirely to managing and improving the operations of the Nordstern hard coal mine in Merkstein (now part of Herzogenrath ), which his father had also developed , and in which he and his brothers Carl (1842–1903) and Friedrich Honigmann (1841–1913) owned shares and where he tried out numerous technical improvements. As the last survivor of the three brothers, it was up to him to transfer this mine in 1914 to the "Hahnsche Werke AG", which later became a company of the Mannesmann Group itself .

Moritz Honigmann founded the Moritz Honigmann Foundation together with his brother Friedrich in 1911, which funded projects at the Technical University of Aachen as well as was involved in the establishment of the Aachen State Earthquake Monitoring Center attached to the university . The TH Aachen awarded him an honorary doctorate for his services to cooperation .

family

Villa Honigmann

Moritz Honigmann was married to Marie Honigmann (1851–1939), the daughter of his uncle Ludwig Honigmann (1822–1898). One of his sons, Otto Honigmann (1879–1959), became a well-known travel photographer and hotel owner in Bad Tölz , whose works were exhibited in the State Museum of Ethnology in Munich during 2010 . Moritz Honigmann found his final resting place in Westfriedhof I in Aachen.

The Moritz Honigmann family owned and lived in a stately villa at Monheimsallee 42-44 in Aachen, which was redesigned in 1909/10 by the architect Arnold Königs . From 1913 it also served the entrepreneur Rudolf Lochner , who initially rented it and bought it in 1921, as the administrative headquarters for his sales company "Rheinisches Waggonkontor Rudolf Lochner & Cie." As part of his move to Berlin, the villa was again given a new owner. Under these owners, Anne Frank's grandparents , Abraham Holländer and Rosa Holländer-Stern, moved into an apartment in 1932 , in which Anne Frank often stayed until she fled to the Netherlands in 1934. In 1939 the now widowed Rosa Holländer followed the family to the Netherlands. At the former location of the villa, a memorial stone commemorates the Holländer and Anne Frank families.

literature

Web links

  • Moritz Honigmann in: Conrad Matschoss: Men of Technology. A biographical manual . Berlin: 1925. (PDF file; 1.86 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Josef Küppers: The ammonia-soda factory Honigmann later Solvay-Werke ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on kulturarchiv-wuerselen.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturarchiv-wuerselen.de
  2. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 5th year 1885, No. 12 (from March 25, 1885) ( Honigmanns feuerlos Dampfkessel ), p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Honigmann, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, inventor, miner
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1918
Place of death Aachen