Oskar stupid
Oskar Blödner (born May 24, 1853 in Gotha ; † September 25, 1916 there ) was a German manufacturer , merchant and benefactor of the city of Gotha.
Life
Oskar Blödner was born the son of the soap boiler Louis Blödner and spent his school days at the secondary school in his hometown. After successfully completing his business apprenticeship, Blödner spent a few years in Bremerhaven, Düsseldorf and Offenbach. After returning to his hometown in 1877, he worked as an assistant in the hemp hose weaving mill Gebr. Burbach & Co. As early as 1878, he and his 12 years older businessman colleague Hermann Vierschrodt (1841–1904) founded the company Blödner & Vierschrodt, the Gothaer should write industrial history. Initially, the production of hemp hoses was located in modest rented rooms in Schlichtenstrasse, where the hoses were made with a few looms for fire departments. Constant improvements of the products through the development of special machines gave the company a constant upward development. In 1882, the inner rubber lining of the hoses was introduced, which made the hoses very tight. Textile inserts gave the hoses better compressive strength. By expanding the range of rubber articles, the small hose weaving mill became an important rubber factory, which in 1914 already had over 750 employees. After Vierschrodt's death in 1904, Blödner initially took over the company alone, but had to hand it over to Vierschrodt's son, Herrmann Vierschrodt, for health reasons in the same year. This year, his villa was built on the corner of Gotthard and Friedrichstrasse according to plans by Richard Klepzig .
social commitment
In 1903 Blödner founded a workers' benefit fund, in 1909 one for white-collar workers. Stupid was a generous donor for the poor council, the Red Cross, the fire brigade, youth care, the home for the blind and in 1910 the nursing home at Pestalozzistraße 4. The unmarried and childless stupid donated large sums of money to the city of Gotha during his lifetime, which the city donated to charitable purposes and should use to carry out community service.
Honors
A street in the south of Gotha and the nursing home "Oskar Blödner" in Pestalozzistraße are reminiscent of the merchant, factory owner, secret councilor and "benefactor of the city".
swell
- Website of the city of Gotha
- Helmut Roob / Günter Scheffler: Gothaer personalities , ISBN 3-932081-37-4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stupid, Oskar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manufacturer, merchant and benefactor of the city of Gotha |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1916 |
| Place of death | Gotha |