Rudolf Sachtleben

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Rudolf Sachtleben (born December 11, 1856 in Schöningen , † July 6, 1917 in Duisburg ; full name August Theodor Rudolf Sachtleben ) was a German chemist and entrepreneur .

Life

Rudolf Sachtleben was born in Schöningen in the Duchy of Braunschweig in December 1856 , his father was a linen weaver , merchant and innkeeper . Sachtleben attended the community school in Schöningen and the grammar school in Helmstedt , which he left after the Obersekunda . From 1873 he attended the Polytechnic in Hanover to prepare for university studies. From 1875 he studied chemistry at the University of Halle and in 1877 moved to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . He received his doctorate in the same year with the thesis "Isobutylameisensäure and their derivatives" to Dr. phil. He completed his military service as a one-year volunteer in Magdeburg.

After brief other positions, he joined the management team at Lithopone- und Permanentweißfabrik AG in Schöningen. From 1884 he was a partner in the company, which now than Lithoponefabrik Schoningen Sachtleben & Co. changed its name . He developed a process with the help of which zinc-containing pebbles could be used in the sulfuric acid factories to produce lithopone (an artificial white pigment).

The company founded another plant in Essenberg in 1892 (since 1907 part of Homberg , today part of Duisburg). To secure the raw material base, there were also business relationships with the Meggen pebble mine from 1892 . So far, the burns there were a waste product, earlier attempts to use them had failed. Conversely, in view of the fluctuating raw material prices, Sachtleben was interested in securing a solid raw material base. Sachtleben signed an agreement of interests with the Siegena and Sicilia unions and founded the limited partnership Sachtleben & Co. together with them . In 1906, the Siegena trade union was merged with the limited partnership to form the Sachtleben trade union based in Homberg. The Sicilia union remained on a participation basis.

1909–1910, Rudolf Sachtleben had a representative villa built by Friedrich Pützer in Krefeld for his family of five . The building was demolished in 1938.

Since Sachtleben - as was customary among successful entrepreneurs in this epoch - donated or donated part of his income or assets for social and cultural purposes, he was initially given the honorary title of (royal Prussian) Kommerzienrat and in 1912 (as a higher level of this award) conferred that of a secret commercial councilor .

Today's companies Sachtleben Chemie GmbH and Sachtleben Minerals GmbH & Co KG emerged from the Sachtleben Group .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miriam Hufnagel: The mining in Meggen and Halberbracht. Olpe 1995, p. 34 f.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Sachtleben, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sachtleben, August Theodor Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöningen
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1917
Place of death Duisburg