Oskar Pintsch

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Oskar Pintsch (born March 13, 1844 in Berlin ; † January 10, 1912 ) was a German manufacturer who, together with his brothers, founded the company founded by his father Julius Pintsch , later Julius Pintsch AG , the market leader in the field of gas appliances and Gas lighting systems, continued.

Entrepreneurial background

Oskar-Helene-Heim Foundation (2006)
Memorial plaque , Clayallee 225, in Berlin-Dahlem
Pintsch family burial site (2009)

In 1879 Oskar Pintsch became co-owners of the company together with his two brothers Richard and Julius Karl . In close collaboration with his brother Richard, he played a major role in the advances in gas lighting and gas burner technology. From 1867 to 1872 he headed the company's Dresden branch.

The private company survived the stock market crisis of the recession years 1873 to 1895 unscathed; It was not until 1907 that it was converted into a stock corporation with a share capital of 18 million marks. At that time Oskar Pintsch's estimated fortune was 6,560,000 marks, with an annual income of 675,000 marks.

Villa Tiergartenstrasse 4a

The architects Cremer & Wolffenstein built for Richard and Oskar Pintsch 1893–1895 a three-storey house in Berlin, Tiergartenstrasse 4 A , which was destroyed in the Second World War , on the grounds of the Friedrich Becherer country house . Today the bus parking lot is at this point in front of the Philharmonie Tiergartenstrasse at the corner of Herbert-von-Karajan-Strasse. In 1906/1907 the same architects' office built a new administration building for Julius Pintsch AG in Berlin and expanded manufacturing facilities on the grounds of Andreasstrasse 71-73, as well as the Marzenie holiday villa for brother Julius Karl in Bad Flinsberg / Lower Silesia and the Marienfels holiday villa for brother Richard in Berchtesgaden /Bavaria.

social commitment

The patronage and social commitment of the Pintsch family remains closely linked to the names of the married couple Oskar and Helene Pintsch and the “ Oskar-Helene-Heim für Heilung und Erfrische Kinder” in Berlin-Dahlem, which they sponsored and inaugurated in 1914 . In 1909 Oskar Pintsch brought an amount of half a million marks into a foundation "... to promote cripple welfare" and in this way became the hospital's most important financial sponsor.

For many years, Oskar Pintsch was a holiday guest in Wildbad Kreuth with his wife Helene and in 1903 he donated the summit cross on the Buchstein . The DAV section Tegernsee commemorated this with a memorial stone and a small copper plaque (renovated in 1986) on the way from Bad Lack to Siebenhütten.

Burial place

Oskar Pintsch and his wife Helene were buried in the family grave of the Pintsch family. The elaborate tomb has the shape of a Doric temple. The cemetery of the Protestant I. Georgen-Parochialgemeinde , formerly George Cemetery is one of the cemeteries of the Berlin Evangelical Georgen-Parochialgemeinde and adjacent to the 1854 built new Mary Nicholas cemetery at which a passage is possible. It is located at Greifswalder Straße 234/229 in the Berlin Prenzlauer Berg district, Pankow district. The cemetery was closed in 1970 but burials have been possible again since 1991. A planned reallocation of unneeded areas of the Georgen-Parochial- and the neighboring New Marien-Nikolai-Friedhof to building land was stopped for the time being after objections from residents.

See also

Web links

Commons : Oskar Pintsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Oskar Pintsch † . In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 52, No. 6 (January 24, 1912), pp. 94–95.
  • Conrad Matschoss : men of technology . A biographical handbook, ed. on behalf of the Association of German Engineers, VDI-Verlag, Berlin 1925, p. 204.
  • Philipp Osten: The model institute. About the establishment of a “modern care for cripples” 1905–1933. Mabuse Verlag, Wissenschaft 79 series, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-935964-64-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Villa Pintsch Berlin, Thiergartenstrasse 4a, corner of Matthäikirchstrasse, photo 1897. ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bildbasis.de
  2. ^ House in Berlin, Thiergartenstr. 4a . In: Leaves for Architecture and Crafts . tape 9 , no. 10 , 1896, pp. 57 ( zlb.de ).
  3. ^ The building newspaper: Villa "Marzenie" by Julius Karl Pintsch in Bad Flinsberg (PDF; 14.6 MB).
  4. ^ Brother Richard's Villa Marienfels in Berchtesgaden.
  5. ^ DAV section Tegernsee.
  6. ↑ Memorial stone for Oskar Pintsch from the DAV section Tegernsee.
personal data
SURNAME Pintsch, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1912
Place of death Berlin