Paul von Bleichert

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Carl von Marr : Portrait of Paul von Bleichert, around 1920
Alice von Bleichert, b. Wagemaekers (1882-1927)

Max Paul von Bleichert (born May 14, 1877 in Leipzig , † September 18, 1938 in Zurich ) was a major German industrialist in the construction of cable cars and transport systems. Together with his brother Max von Bleichert , he managed the company Adolf Bleichert & Co., a factory for cable cars , Leipzig-Gohlis, founded by his father , and developed it into the world's largest cable car and transport system factory.

Life

education

Paul von Bleichert was the son of Adolf Bleichert (1845–1901) and his wife Hildegard, née Oelschig (1855–1928). Like his brother Max (1875–1947), he first attended the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig, but switched to a secondary school after Sexta in 1888 . After graduating from high school, he began a three-year apprenticeship at the export company H. Schütte, Gieseken & Co. in Bremen . He then worked for North American and South American companies as well as for companies in Brussels and Paris . The focus of his training and practical work was in the commercial area.

In the meantime, he did his military service in 1898 as a one-year volunteer with the royal Saxon carbine regiment in Borna .

Company management 1901–1926

After the premature death of their father, the brothers Max and Paul jointly took over the management of Adolf Bleichert & Co. on October 1, 1901. While Max was responsible for production and development within the company, Paul was responsible for the commercial area and tariff - and social policy of the company.

On May 1, 1915, the company became the sole property of the brothers through payment of the family members involved. Under her leadership, the medium-sized company develops specializing in the construction of cable cars to a world-leading wholesale company for wire rope and electric monorail systems , transportation systems, loading equipment and cranes with up to 2000 employees. Subsidiaries were founded in Charkow in 1909 and in Neuss in 1912 .

During the First World War , production was adapted to the needs of the German Army . They produced ammunition and grenades and developed the monocable for field cable car that enables ammunition and food delivered to the front, could be transported to the front line but above all the wounded to medical care.

In 1924 the brothers celebrated the 50th anniversary of their father's company. The commemorative publication published on the occasion mentions that with the construction of a total of 4,000 cable cars by 1924, the overall performance of all cable car manufacturers in the world was exceeded by the company Adolf Bleichert & Co.

The Klinga country house (around 1930)
Gravesite of Paul and Alice von Bleichert; Design: Richard Welz

On the occasion of the transformation of the company into a stock corporation with 4 million Reichsmark share capital, Paul von Bleichert left the company management in 1926 due to long-term health problems and retired into private life. On the Senfberg near Klinga he had a country house with a spacious landscaped park built by the Leipzig architect Richard Welz (1877-1932) in 1923, which he sold to the city of Leipzig in 1929 to settle in Zurich. He died there in 1938 and was buried on October 25, 1938 in the Südfriedhof in Leipzig next to his wife, who had died in a traffic accident in 1927.

family

Paul von Bleichert married Berthe Louise Alice Wagemaekers on January 3, 1903 in Brussels (* December 4, 1882 in Brussels, † August 14, 1927 in Ostend ). She was the daughter of the insurance company Edmondus Wagemaekers (1842-1930) and his wife Emilie Baronne de Kemmeter (1840-1923). The marriage had five children:

  • Hilda (1903–1988) in her first marriage 1924–1927 with Georg Glaser; in the second marriage in 1928 with Luis Trenker married
  • Yvonne (1905–1965) married to the industrialist Ludwig Hinterschweiger (1863–1930) since 1926
  • Alice (1907–2001) married to the physician Albert Patton (1885–1959) since 1931
  • Raoul (1908-2000), took his mother's name
  • Gaston (1912-1983)

Art collector

Paul von Bleichert and his brother Max were among the most important private art collectors in Germany before and after the First World War. Their collections included paintings by old and new masters , furniture, textiles, silver, bronzes , minerals, porcelains and faiences . Paul von Bleichert owned paintings by Carl Spitzweg , Wilhelm Leibl , Karl Haider , Hans Thoma , Fritz von Uhde , Max Klinger , Franz von Stuck , Max Liebermann , Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt , among others . Some works of art in Paul von Bleichert's collections were donated or sold to various museums.

Nobilization, title, memberships

literature

  • Manfred Hötzel: Max and Paul von Bleichert. Attempt of a double biography of Adolf Bleichert's sons. In: Stefan W. Krieg (ed.): Max and Paul von Bleichert. Entrepreneurs and their villas. Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2004, p. 9ff [Gohliser Historische Hefte, 9].
  • P. von Bleichert: Bleichert cable cars . Kindle Digital Press, 2013.
  • Dietulf Sander: In search of traces : The art collections of the brothers Max and Paul von Bleichert. In: Leipziger Geschichtsverein e. V. (Ed.): Leipzig city history. Yearbook 2011. Sax-Verlag, Beucha, Markkleeberg 2012, pp. 139 ff. ISBN 978-3-86729-102-6 .

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Company history  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schuebue.de
  2. ↑ Includes: bucket elevators , brake mountains , rope and chain conveyors , rope and shunting systems, excavators, conveyor belts, locomotives
  3. ↑ Includes: crane systems, loading bridges , elevators and tippers
  4. ↑ By the end of the war, 630 field cable cars with a length of 2.5 kilometers had been delivered to the army.
  5. ↑ Half a century of cable car construction: 1874–1924. Experiences and successes. Adolf Bleichert & Co., private printing, Leipzig undated (1924).
  6. ↑ From 1929 the city of Leipzig used the manor house as a children's recreation home, the farm building as a youth hostel and the forester's house as the rural school home for the Leipzig Gaudig School . From 1940 to 1944 the children's recovery home was a military hospital and from December 1944 a replacement for the destroyed municipal children's hospital on Oststraße , including children's euthanasia . After the war the tuberculosis clinic was here . The facility remained a branch of the children's clinic until the early 1990s. ( http://www.klinga.org/Bildseite_3.htm )
  7. ↑ See on this: Dietulf Sander: On the search for traces : The art collections of the brothers Max and Paul von Bleichert. In: Leipziger Geschichtsverein e. V. (Ed.): Leipzig city history. Yearbook 2011. Sax-Verlag, Beucha, Markkleeberg 2012, pp. 139 ff. ISBN 978-3-86729-102-6
  8. ↑ Together with his brother Max on March 24, 1918 by King Friedrich August III. of Saxony . It is probably the last uprising of the nobility before the abolition of the monarchy in Saxony.
  9. ↑ Recorded on November 15, 1921 at the suggestion of Paul Zachmann.
personal data
SURNAME Bleichert, Paul von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bleichert, Max Paul von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1938
Place of death Zurich