Peter Anton Ulrich Piutti

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Peter Anton Piutti (born July 5, 1750 in Paluzza , Italy ; † February 23, 1823 in Ohrdruf ) was an Italian businessman and entrepreneur in Germany.

Life

Peter Anton Piutti accompanied his father, the merchant Leonhard Piutti, as an assistant on his travels to Ohrdruf in the 1760s ; there his father ran a material trade and speculative business; he also owned a warehouse in Gotha. During this time his father was planning to set up a soap factory in Italy and traveled there to make the appropriate arrangements; He probably came into the power of people who felt they were disadvantaged by his ventures, because he was murdered in 1778 between Tolmezzo and St. Blatt.

Peter Anton Piutti decided to stay and get married in Ohrdruf in the Duchy of Gotha after the death of his father .

Because he was the only Catholic living among Protestants in Ohrdruf , he belonged to a small Catholic community in Gotha and attended their church regularly, despite the great distance. Because he saw the essential rather than the formal in religion, he also visited the Protestant churches and took part in their worship services, so his children were brought up according to the Lutheran creed. After a major fire broke out in Ohrdruf in 1808, in which not only his apartment but also the Michaeliskirche fell victim to the flames, he sought support from his friends and on his travels abroad for their reconstruction, but had little success here, so that it took fifteen years to complete on June 29, 1823. He had ordered a crucifix for the altar , but could not see anything more when it was set up. He also did not experience the installation of a lightning rod that he suggested and financed on the church tower. His suggestion was not followed to buy a new church bell in Erfurt for the one that had melted in the fire, since the French sold church bells there; he also wanted to contribute 200 Reichstaler ; but because the rebuilding of the church was still too far away at the time, his proposal was rejected.

He not only ran his business, but also occupied himself with useful things and thought about improvements, so he was the only one who, as suggested in public papers, had his new building built with clay bricks after the great fire, despite the higher costs.

Waidmühle in Molschleben

He had already run numerous different commercial and factory businesses, for example he was producing different types of chocolate in 1777 when he wanted to open a woad factory in the 1790s , but he lacked the financial means and he needed the permission of the state government. At first he wanted to build the factory in Erfurt, but did not find the necessary support from the authorities there and then decided to open the factory in Molschleben . The ducal provincial government encouraged the construction of such facilities and granted him the desired freedoms and privileges; he received the necessary financial means through advances from his relatives. He set up the plant on the outskirts of Molschleben and expanded it over time to include functional and usable systems, so that he continued to improve the product and sales increased. He exported his product, which came close to indigo in color and even replaced it, later to Saxony , Poland , Prussia , the Netherlands and France .

In later years he set up mines in the forest between Ohrdruf and Ilmenau in Oehrenstock , from which he extracted brown stone, which was needed for the glass and metal processing that is common in the Thuringian Forest. He carried out the directory on the miners from Ohrdruf and there were also several sorters in his house who separated the brownstone from one another according to its quality and from the constant inbound and outbound journeys it was evident that he was making significant shipments, this led for that Land to additional income and he supplied many workers in the area. For this he also founded a savings bank, in which he invested part of their wages so that they could access it in emergencies. Some of his workers were able to pay off their debts and others were able to buy houses. In addition, he made a contribution to the poor in Ohrdruf. However, his suggestion to build a workhouse for the unemployed and work-shy was not followed, although he was prepared to make a contribution of 500 Reichstalers.

In 1812, when the French withdrew, a military hospital was set up outside the city and an inspector was sought who would deal with the complaints and submissions and also not fear infection from diseases. Peter Anton Ulrich Piutti then took on the job and administered this office.

In 1814, when the Landsturm was set up, he was ready, despite his advanced age, to go into the field to help liberate Germany.

For the construction of a Catholic school in Gotha, he had already provided 200 Reichstaler in 1816, which earned 5 percent interest every year. However, the heads of the Catholic community only received an oral promise about this legacy. When he had now died, a search was made in the papers and a receipt was found for the Morocutti legacy he had named, whereupon the heirs paid the money to the Catholic Church.

In 1774, Peter Anton Piutti married Elisabeth Christiane (* 1754; † 1797), daughter of councilor Albrecht, with whom he had four daughters and seven sons, of whom two daughters and four sons were still alive at his death; the names of the children are known:

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Piutti (born October 23, 1776 in Ohrdruf; † April 6, 1860 ibid), wool factory owner in Molschleben and merchant in Ohrdruf; his grandson was the later composer Karl Piutti ;
  • Amand Ernst Joseph Piutti (born December 24, 1789 in Ohrdruf, † March 14, 1847 in Molschleben); Woad factory owner.

Two of his sons continued his business with the abandoned woad factory and two more settled in Russia .

In 1817 he married the widow of the forester Asmus for the second time.

Literature (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany, Austria and Europe (Fabian handbook): St. Michaelis Church (Ohrdruf). Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ H. Th Kühne: Contributions to the history of the development of the social conditions of the city and the Duchy of Gotha during the last century: Textband . P. 13. Self-rel. des author, 1862 ( google.de [accessed April 14, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Reinhard Döring: The Elgersburger Promenaden . Verlag Kern, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95716-238-0 ( google.de [accessed April 14, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Piutti, Peter Anton Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piutti, PAU
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Paluzza in Italy
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1823
Place of death Ohrdruf