Philipp Victor Pauli

Philipp Victor Pauli (born February 26, 1836 in Oggersheim , † August 20, 1920 in Bensheim ) was a German chemist , founder of chemical plants and board member of the Hoechst paintworks . The chemist was first married to Laura Katharina Forster and had three children with her. In the second marriage he was connected to Ida Felicitas Forster.

Origin and childhood

Philipp Victor Pauli was born on February 26, 1836 in Oggersheim as the son of the local rent master Philipp Heinrich Josef Pauli (1793–1881) and Johanna Maria Katharina König (1812–1849), daughter of the local postmaster. He attended the local elementary school, then in 1847 the royal Latin school in Frankenthal and finally the royal district agricultural and trade school in Kaiserslautern for the Bavarian Rhine district, which he graduated in 1855.

Studies and work experience

Pauli studied chemistry in Giessen and Heidelberg and finished his studies in 1858. He first moved to France, where he worked as a dyer's journeyman in Roubaix for a year. In Manchester, Pauli then worked in an experimental laboratory and from 1860 to 1863 he was head of the United Alkali & Co soda factory in St. Helens near Liverpool. “A favorable offer brought him back to France for a short time to a large chemical factory Kuhlmann & co in Lille”.

Entrepreneur and director of chemical plants

In 1865 Philipp Pauli returned to Germany and entered Ziegelhausen near Heidelberg, as manager and then owner in a saltpeter mill. In 1871 Pauli built a new chemical factory in Mannheim-Rheinau , where he was on the board of the factory company until 1881. From 1880/1881 Pauli built up the acid factory at Farbenwerke Höchst in Frankfurt and was a member of the board from 1883 to 1899. Pauli was friends with Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) through his fellow student Carl Schorlemmer (1834–1892) and the families were in close contact through letters, among other things. In Aschaffenburg-Nilkeim, Pauli had owned an estate since 1892, where he had a well, a pumping station, an economic building and also the houses built for the workers. Pauli spent his old age in Bensheim, where he died in 1920.

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• StALU marriage register, birth register, death register Oggersheim
• Chemiker Zeitung / Chemical Apparatus, Volume 40, Ed. Georg Krause
• Karl Kreuter: Two important men born in Oggersheim. 1. Dr. Philipp Pauli, a chemist; D. Franz Schädler, a parliamentarian .. - In: Stadt-Anzeiger. Ludwigshafen. Vol. 14, 1961, No. 52.
• William O. Henderson: The life of Friedrich Engels, Volume 1, Plymouth 1976

Web links

• Chemische Fabrik Rheinau 1873 in Chronicle of the City of Mannheim - Milestones 19th Century