Otto Jagenberg

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Otto Jagenberg (born May 9, 1861 in Almersbach ; † 1937 ) was a German entrepreneur in the paper industry .

Life

Otto Jagenberg came from an old merchant and hammer owner family based in Remscheid and Solingen. His grandfather was the Solingen paper maker and paper mill owner Johann Ferdinand Wilhelm Jagenberg (1794–1871), his father was the Altenkirchen and Solingen paper manufacturer Adolf Jagenberg (1819–1900). His mother was thusnelda born. Rehorn. He attended elementary school and a secondary school in Cologne. He then studied engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and became a member of the Corps Alemannia there . In 1882 he joined his father's company, Jagenberg & Cie., Solingen paper factory . In 1884 he became a partner and director and in 1888 sole owner of the company. In the years from 1889 to 1900 in particular, he expanded and modernized the company, purchasing and using new turbines, steam boilers, steam engines and electrically operated machines as well as modern paper machines. The special production program included manila paper, cardboard paper, cellulose cardboard and patterned packaging paper. The construction of company apartments was one of his social merits.

After Jagenberg had served as a one-year volunteer in the Baden Leib Grenadier Regiment , he became a lieutenant in the reserve in 1884 and a captain in the Landwehr in 1901. Her first marriage was with Jeanne Motard from 1890 until her death in 1892. Their only son Alexander was killed in the First World War . In 1896 he married Meta Schnitzler, with whom they had two sons and a daughter. The son Kurt also died in the First World War. The son Paul became a partner in his father's company in 1927. The daughter Jeanne married Fritz Linge.

literature

  • Jagenberg, Otto. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, p. 837. ( DNB 453960286 )
  • Jagenberg, Otto. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, Sp. 1049-1050. ( DNB 948663294 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 227.
personal data
SURNAME Jagenberg, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur in the paper industry
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Almersbach
DATE OF DEATH 1937