Rudolf Böcking

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Rudolf Böcking (born April 18, 1843 in Asbach (Hunsrück) , † January 15, 1918 in Brebach ; full name: Carl Eduard Rudolph Böcking ) was a German entrepreneur in the iron industry.

Life

Rudolf Böcking came from an important family of entrepreneurs in southwest Germany. His father Rudolf Heinrich Böcking (1810–1871) was the manager of the Böcking brothers, to which the Asbacherhütte, the Graefenbacherhütte and the Abentheuererhütte belonged. His grandfather was the Bergrat and Saarbrücken mayor Heinrich Böcking . His great-grandfathers were the wholesaler and banker Adolf Böcking (1754–1800) and the ironworks entrepreneur Friedrich Philipp Stumm (1751–1835). His brother was the entrepreneur Eduard Sigismund Böcking .

After attending the hut school at the Asbacherhütte, Böcking studied at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic from 1859 to 1862 . In 1862 he toured the ironworks in western England. In 1863 he went to John Cockerill as a volunteer in Seraing , in order to then continue his studies at the Hüttenakademie Leoben .

In 1866 Böcking joined the management of the Asbacherhütte . When it was moved to Halbergerhütte in 1875, he became its sole director. Under Böcking, the hut developed into a leading supplier of cast iron pipes. His process innovations were the casting of pipes with the same wall directly from the blast furnace , a pipe ramming machine for large pipe diameters and a rotary table system .

He was the first to introduce the extraction and utilization of the by-products of the coking and blast furnace processes at the Halbergerhütte . This included the extraction of ammonia and tar as well as the dedusting of the furnace gas and use as heating gas.

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SURNAME Böcking, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böcking, Carl Eduard Rudolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur in the iron industry
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Asbach (Hunsrück)
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1918
Place of death Brebach