Richard Gruneberg
Richard Grüneberg (born November 16, 1862 in Kalk , now Cologne; † December 9, 1926 in Cologne ) was a German industrialist in the chemical industry, partner in Vorster & Grüneberg and managing director of Chemischen Fabrik Kalk GmbH in Cologne.
Life
As the second son of the chemist and entrepreneur Hermann Grüneberg , he attended the Protestant elementary school in Kalk and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne. He studied in Darmstadt and after his military service worked in the Hessian Leibdragonerregiment as a volunteer in the Dr. Fresenius in Wiesbaden, with August Wilhelm von Hofmann in Berlin and with Professor Georg Lunge in Zurich. Stays abroad in Great Britain and southern France followed.
On April 1, 1891, Richard Grüneberg joined the Vorster & Grüneberg company as a partner . After the transformation of this company into Chemische Fabrik Kalk GmbH , he took over alongside Julius Vorster jr. and Fritz Vorster as the third managing director to manage the company's ammonia factories . As a far-sighted entrepreneur, he recognized the need to relocate the production facility from the center of the town of Kalk to the Rhine. In preparation for this measure, he acquired the agricultural land of the Mühlenhof near Godorf am Rhein.
In the expectation that the energy demand of the chemical plant should be secured, the brothers Richard and Frederick Green Mountain founded the union Green Mountain , in the Rhenish lignite mining area operated the briquette "Mariaglück" in Brühl.
Richard Grüneberg was unable to assert himself with his ideas. Due to the inflation after the First World War and the destruction of the plant in the Second World War , the company did not move . The Godorf Harbor was acquired by the Cologne-Bonn Railway , and Deutsche Shell AG built the containers for its refinery on the grounds of the Mühlenhof, which was sold in 1957 . The old Godorf mill and the courtyard buildings were converted into a hotel. The union of Grüneberg became the union of Maria Glück , whose briquette factory worked until 1930 until it was taken over by the Roddergrube and later by RWE .
For the 50th anniversary of the Kalk Chemical Factory , Richard Grüneberg donated the ornamental fountain to his hometown Kalk in 1908 on the square in front of the post office, which was destroyed by bombs in World War II.
Richard Grüneberg, remembered by the Grünebergstrasse in Brühl, died in 1926 and was buried in the family crypt in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne .
literature
- Heinrich Bützler: History of lime and the surrounding area . Reprint from the original from 1910, Edition Kalk of the bookstore W. Ohlert, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-935735-00-6 .
- History and local history association on the right bank of the Rhine in Cologne: Yearbook for History and Regional Studies Volume 32 , self-published, Cologne 2007, ISSN 0179-2938
- Walter Greiling: 100 Years of Chemical Factory Kalk 1858–1958 , self-published by CFK, Cologne 1958
Web link
Individual evidence
- ^ Website about the life's work and the estate of the company's founder Hermann Julius Grüneberg; Youth section. Retrieved November 29, 2011 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grueneberg, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | lime |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1926 |
| Place of death | Cologne |