Moses Doertenbach

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Mose Doertenbach (* 1671 ; † 1737 ) was a German entrepreneur and pietist .

Life

Mose Doertenbach was a grandson of Johann Jakob Doertenbach and like him was an entrepreneur. Together with his cousin Johann Georg Zahn, he founded the company Mose Doertenbach & Compagnie in 1721, which traded in cobalt and received a special privilege from Prince Joseph Wilhelm Ernst von Fürstenberg in both 1721 and 1732 .

Mose Doertenbach had already invested in mining in 1706 . Due to the grievances in the silver and cobalt mines around Wittichen as well as a failure in the attempt to utilize cobalt, the operators of the mines and the inking plant ran into financial difficulties. Here Mose Doertenbach stepped in as a sponsor. Little by little he took over the majority of the Kuxe until he was finally able to take over the pits and inking works entirely. Under Mose Doertenbach, old pits were reactivated and new digs were carried out. By 1725, 21 plants were in operation, including the pits Grace of God and St. Joseph, Sophia zum Ludwig, Bergmännisch Glück in Gallenbach , St. Antoni in Kaltbrunn , Güte Gottes bei Wittichen, Gabe Gottes in Gallenbach, Bergmännisch Herz bei Wittichen, Help from God and Archangel Michael. Only the prospecting in the St. Josephs colliery turned out to be really productive.

In contrast, the blue paintwork was very successful. The paint sales company set up warehouses in London , Venice and Milan . There were also trade relations with Holland; the Delft porcelain may have been painted with paints from Wittichen at times.

In 1732 the privilege of Prince Joseph Wilhelm Ernst von Fürstenberg was renewed. On this occasion, he issued general mining regulations and in the preamble paid his respects to the efforts of the Doertenbach company for mining in the Kinzig valley . A year before the death of Mose Doertenbach, abundant silver and cobalt deposits were found in the so-called Sophiagang of the Joseph tunnel. After profit had been made in the 1740s, the following decades were not very successful. The descendants of Moses Doertenbach gradually sold their shares in the pits; Cobalt was temporarily imported from Spain, Bohemia and England. In 1837 the descendants of Mose Doertenbach also sold the Witticher paint mill, and in the middle of the 19th century they withdrew completely from mining. Evidence from the mining period can be seen in the monastery museum in Wittichen; Nearby is a seven-kilometer-long geological nature trail with four spoil heaps.

Calwer church dispute

Pietism was a separatist movement that demanded more moral rigor in general life and from the sovereigns. In particular, the lifestyle of the Duke of Württemberg was a thorn in the side of the Pietists. However, the representatives of the official regional church , although they also criticized corruption and depravity, largely held back because sanctions were to be expected: As early as 1706, Mose Doertenbach had some clergymen who had been rejected by the regional church because they represented radical pietist views , recorded in his home. At that time the dean Christoph Zeller was still working in Calw, who apparently took no offense at this action and was popular with his community. At that time there were no clashes between the Church and the Pietists. But after the new dean Johann Philipp Zeller 1710 from the pulpit his directed against the pietists orthodox views had announced waived numerous members of the Calwer Compagnie, including the theologically interested Moses Doertenbach, to go to church and held off instead perform devotional hours. After threats of punishment were unsuccessful, a commission of inquiry was sent to Calw in the spring of 1713. Burckhard Bardili, the court preacher Andreas Adam Hochstetter and the Tübingen theology professor Johann Ulrich Fromann interviewed numerous participants for two weeks. Finally, the commission came to the conclusion that there was nothing wrong with the pietists' way of life: "Change is pious and correct: They bed and sing hard: do not live luxuriantly, but only when they need to eat, drink and dress: do the sick, without distinction vil guts [...] keep themselves still and withdrawn [...] to cause the authorities nothing to worry about, they should not be too annoying [...] if there were nothing else to complain about them but that they separate themselves . “Johann Philipp Zeller, on the other hand, sometimes expressed himself in his sermons not only obscure, but even obscene, so that some of his expressions could not even be put down in the written report. In 1715 he had himself transferred to Böblingen , whereupon Mose Doertenbach and his friends and relatives resumed church visits. The tolerant Pietist rescript of 1743 may also have come about under the influence of the Calw dispute.

progeny

Mose Doertenbach's son Christoph Mose Doertenbach, the "Silbermose", founded a metal goods shop in Stuttgart in 1850 with Christian Gottlieb Koch. The Zahn & Nopper company later emerged from this.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Lehmann, Max Weber's 'Protestant Ethics'. Contributions from the perspective of a historian , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1996, ISBN 978-3-525-33575-8 , p. 86
  2. ↑ http://www.schenkenzell.de/ceasy/modules/cms/main.php5?cPageId=29
  3. ↑ http://www.martinszeller-verband.de/index.php?cat_id=1148& aSe = 40e84884e7c48f7a56beab6d490f998f


personal data
SURNAME Doertenbach, Moses
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dörtenbach, Moses
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman
DATE OF BIRTH 1671
DATE OF DEATH 1737