Robert Sputh
Robert Ludwig Sputh (born June 18, 1843 in Dresden ; † February 27, 1913 there ) was a Saxon entrepreneur and is considered to be one of the inventors of the beer mat, which he patented with patent 68444 of October 25, 1892 as a manufacturing process for wood felt panels or fiber casting -Let coasters protect.
Live and act
Robert Sputh was born in 1843 as the son of the businessman Friedrich Adolph Albert Sputh and his wife Minna Theresia. After attending school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship and in 1868 received the right to practice as a businessman. His professional career took him to Leipzig in 1870 , but as early as 1872 he took over the management of the Seifersdorf paper mill (the former Niedermühle in the Seifersdorfer Valley ) north-east of Dresden. Sputh later worked as director of the paper mill in Sebnitz .
On the Bautzen – Bad Schandau railway line , Sputh built a wood grinding factory from 1882 near Mittelndorf in the Sebnitz valley, powered by water through the Sebnitzbach. The factory had its own siding and was popularly called Sputhmühle . The first buyer of the pulp produced was the Sebnitz paper mill.
As a result of an overproduction crisis in the wood pulp industry, Sputh looked for new uses for wood pulp products in 1890/91. In 1892 he patented a "process for the production of wooden felt sheets or wooden felt lids" which were used as coasters for beer glasses. The new absorbent beer coasters made from wood pulp have replaced felt coasters previously used in the catering industry. Sputh's beer coasters were shipped "all the way to Brazil". The factory burned down in 1937 and is now only a ruin.
Robert Sputh is buried in the Tolkewitz urn grove in Dresden.
Literature and media
- Gitta Böth: "Baierisches Bier" from Westphalia: on the history of Westphalian breweries and beers . Exhibition by the Westfälisches Freilichtmuseum Hagen, State Museum for Crafts and Technology, June 14th to November 30th, 1998. Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Hagen 1998, ISBN 3-926190-14-0 , page 127.
- Maurice Rickards: The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator and Historian . Routledge, New York 2000, ISBN 0-415-92648-3 , page 45.
- Holger Starke: Sputh, Robert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 771 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Mr. Sputh's beer mat . Film (30 minutes) by Götz Goebel for the SWR series “Patents & Talents”. First broadcast: January 6, 2008 SWR.
Web links
- Illustration of a beer mat from 1915 with the imprint Impr. = Robert Sputh - Dresden
- Illustration of a beer mat from 1935 with the imprint Impr. = Robert Sputh - Dresden
- Brockhaus-Multimedia : 100 years of beer mat tradition , November 14, 2003
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cradle of the beer mat in Mittelndorf ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Section The former Sputhmühle in the Sebnitztal . In: Hiking and mountaineering in Saxony . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tolkewitz urn grove
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sputh, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sputh, Robert Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German inventor (beer mat) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1913 |
| Place of death | Dresden |