Robert Hasenclever

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Robert Hasenclever

Robert Hasenclever (born May 28, 1841 in Aachen ; † June 28, 1902 there ) was a German industrialist.

Life

Hasenclever began studying chemistry, physics, mineralogy, geology, technology and mechanical engineering at the TH Karlsruhe at the age of 16 . He then worked in Vienna, Holzappel and Stolberg, among others, and in 1862 took on a first managerial position at the Egestorff factory in Linden . Two years later he joined the management of the Rhenania chemical factory in Stolberg (Rhineland) , founded by his father, the pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Hasenclever , and in 1874 took over the overall management as general director. The factory produced soda on a large scale using the Leblanc process . In 1879 he published a book about the impairment of vegetation by exhaust gases and developed flue gas desulfurization .

After Ernest Solvay put him under economic pressure with the production of ammonia soda by the more effective Solvay process , he began to produce pancreatin in 1895/97 . a. Franz Thomas had invented and from 1907 it replaced the dog feces used as a pickling agent in the tannery because of its trypsin content . It was also used as a medicine for indigestion.

In 1887 the Hasenclever , who had meanwhile been appointed to the Commerce Council , became a member of the Club Aachener Casino and two years later an honorary member of the Academic Association of Chemists, Miners and Metalworkers , later the Corps Montania Aachen. In 1902 he died of a heart attack. He was married to Emma Bölling (1846-1910) and in 1878 the couple acquired both the Schellartshof and the Hebscheid estate in Aachen- Lichtenbusch , which he bequeathed to his son Edwin after his death. His son Max Hasenclever took over Rhenania AG.

  • Hasenclever-Helbig Muffle Roasting Oven (1872)

  • Kerpely-Hasenclever roasting oven

Works

  • About the damage to vegetation by acid gases. In: The chemical industry. Vol. 2, 1879, ZDB -ID 505860-0 , pp. 225-231 (also special print: Springer, Berlin 1879).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Ludwig Neher: The Corps Montania to Aachen. 1872-1957. Published on the 85th foundation day. Huber, Diessen vor München 1957, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Hasenclever, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1902
Place of death Aachen