Rudolf Thiel (industrialist)

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Rudolf Thiel

Rudolf Thiel (born July 8, 1848 in Hamburg ; † January 30, 1924 in Lübeck ) was a German businessman , manufacturer and member of the Lübeck citizenship .

Life

origin

Rudolf was the son of a Hamburg merchant family. His father, the businessman and factory owner Wilhelm Carl Ludwig Thiel, came from Lübeck and worked in a comparable factory in Pinneberg . Together with Rudolf's grandfather , he made a financial contribution to the bone mill of the businessman Heinrich Christian Julius Koch in Trems .

Tremser Eisenwerk

His father, who had the technical knowledge to manage a company , and Koch founded the “Tremser Eisenwerk” in the buildings of the traditional metal goods factory. From the management of the plant in the Lübeck address books as early as 1870 as the company "Tremser Eisenwerk Carl Thiel & Co." zu Trems, conclusions can be drawn about the financial weighting within the company.

At the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873, the company was awarded the first progress medal with its products. In the following year the plant, now known as “Carl Thiel & Co.”, received the silver medal for its dairy tools at the agricultural exhibition in Bremen . When the Tremser factory was awarded the gold medal at the dairy exhibition in Amsterdam in 1884, the factory had long enjoyed a worldwide reputation .

When Carl died in Schwartau on March 22nd, 1892 , he had brought the plant to its prime .

career

Rudolf received his school education first at the Hamburg high school and later in Pinneberg by private tutors . After shooting , he went through several years in all practical areas of ironworking a teaching and went to technical training on the technical state school in Hamburg. Later he went, in his father's business for the Mercantile professional prepared to discharge his one-year military service some years in abroad and was then in larger industrial companies of the inland in a management position working.

In 1880 he joined the factory company "Tremser Eisenwerk Carl Thiel & Co." as a partner . The customer base extended to Lübeck, Hamburg, Mecklenburg and Holstein . But deliveries could also be made to the rest of Germany and abroad . The plant employed permanent sales representatives in cities such as Hamburg, Copenhagen , Amsterdam, Paris , Madrid , Seville , Barcelona , Odessa , Texas , Sydney and even one in India . The ownership structure of the Tremser Eisenwerk should change again in 1912. After Reuter, a Saarland manufacturer, lost his enamelling factory in Königsbrück due to a fire , he bought the traditional company in order to temporarily take over the Saarland production. When the export at the beginning of the First World War fell away, Lübeck first Emailliefabrik should be insignificance sink.

Apartment until 1918
former siding

On October 1, 1887, his father and his younger brother Heinrich officially founded the later stamping and enamelling plant on Schwartauer Allee under the company "Carl Thiel & Sons" on a plot of 20,000 m² acquired by the merchants . In 1922 the company had grown to an area of ​​50,000 m², of which 30,000 m² was covered. The company premises were located close to the port and had their own siding .

Thiel's product range initially comprised tin-plated and enameled sheet metal dishes and dairy equipment and did not differ from that of the ironworks. The company, however, has a more modern structure and has always tried to keep up with the times. One of the most important foundations of the company's success was its technical innovations . Their galvanizing was one of the most modern in the empire.

The move into the new factory building took place in 1888. The family foundation was on 28 October 1899 into a public limited company under the name of "punching and enamelling formerly Carl Thiel & Söhne Aktiengesellschaft" with Rudolf and Heinrich Thiel as Executive converted and her for special trading purposes, the company "R. & H. Thiel ”added.

Together with Heinrich Dräger , the "Deutsche Bierfaß-Automat Gesellschaft" was founded in 1895, when the Dräger company was still mainly producing beer pressure equipment.

The company's product range in 1910 was divided into three main areas:

  1. Enamelled house and kitchen utensils
  2. Tin-plated dairy utensils, in particular milk cans
  3. the manufacture of beer transport and pasteurization kegs
Stamping and enamelling plant

The world war brought about a fundamental change for the sales relations because of the discontinuation of exports. In accordance with the existing factory facilities, the company was placed in the service of the army administration. After the war it was quickly possible to switch back to pre-war production and to regain most of the former sales areas, including in previously hostile countries. However, important areas such as Russia were not included. It was a community of interest with one of the most powerful sheet metal rolling mills in Germany, the Bismarck Hut in Upper Silesia Bismarckhütte received. The Lübeck plant was put in a position to increase its efficiency to such an extent that it produced beyond its own needs and also supplied other enamelling plants with the necessary raw materials.

Because of his persistent eye problems , which is why he withdrew from public life in Lübeck in 1911 , Thiel left the board of directors in 1919 and the supervisory board in 1921 . Nevertheless, he continued to enjoy a good reputation both as a speaker and as an organizer .

Public life

Instead of Theodor Schorer , who regularly leaves the Chamber of Commerce , the businessman Joh. Sam. Wilms, Theodor Sartori , the “civil engineer” Joh. Christ. Gerh. Hübner, and the butcher Joh. Christ. Ed. Stein were chosen among others Hermann Meeths and Thiel. After his term of office he resigned at the meeting on May 9, 1894.

As a member of the merchant class, Thiel was proposed in place of the resigning Friedrich Ewers for the supplementary elections of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce . At the meeting on May 28, 1894, a replacement election for the departing took place. At the meeting on July 3, 1894, the shareholder of the Hansa brewery Friedrich Carl Sauermann was elected to the committee for railway and transport affairs and owner of the chemical factory Wilhelmshöhe Wilhelm Theodor Wengenroth in the for industrial affairs. From 1898 to 1904 he was again a member of the board of the Chamber of Commerce. As an industrial leader, he was also active in the legislative body of Lübeck and in professional associations. Also belonged to the court of honor .

To that in the February 18, 1894 Berlin held open meeting of German Businessmen and Industrialists for advice about the German-Russian trade agreement Thiel was approved by the Chamber of Commerce lübeckischen seconded .

To discuss the relocation of the station on November 29, 1895, in addition to the president and partner of the action Wm. Minlos Hermann Lange and the first deputy president Emil Possehl , Thiele was also delegated by the Chamber of Commerce as a member of the merchant class.

At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on June 17, 1896, Ernst Stiller , Thiele, who was proposed for this purpose together with the Dutch consul Hans Christoph Wilhelm Eschenburg and the later Senator Eduard Friedrich Ewers , was appointed to the commission in place of the outgoing director of Commerz-Bank elected by the Chamber of Commerce. At the meeting of July 7, 1896, he was elected in the place of Georg Eduard Tegtmeyer, owner of Tegtmeyer & Co. , in the committee for customs matters and in place of Stiller in the committee for industrial matters . As chairman of the industry committee , he promoted a large part of the development of newly established Lübeck industries. As a co-founder of the Lübeck industrial association , an association whose successful endeavors have paved the way for local industry, he did this very closely.

A commission was also elected in 1896 to deliberate on the draft of a commercial code . It included President Lange, Evers, the Danish consul Charles Hornung Petit , CJ Rehder, the Commerzienrat Heinrich Gustav Scharff, co-owner of the Cabell & Schwartzkopf Gotth company. Joach. Georg Schwartzkopf and Thiele.

In 1901/02, the Chamber of Commerce elected not only Hermann Wilhelm Fehling, but also Thiel as deputy president. At the first meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in 1907, Carl Dimpker was elected first and Thiel second deputy president. At the end of 1910 he left the Chamber of Commerce.

Citizenship meeting (1909)

On June 22, 1889 in the election of 13 members were of citizenship in Marien quarters along with the suburban St. Lorenz , despite quietly prepared counter agitation , all from the Father Municipal Association established candidates elected. Those 13 included Thiel, Ludwig Trummer , Friedrich Heinrich Bertling and Ad. Friedr. Aug. Rittscher. Thiel, who only became a citizen of Lübeck in 1887, received 509 votes . Of 1252 eligible voters , however, only 532 (42%) took part in the election. Of those, 349 voted for the list of the Father City Association .

At the citizens' meeting of the Marienquartier on May 28, 1895, Thiel was set up by the merchants for the citizenship election. At the election meeting of the III. Electoral district (Marienquartier and suburb of St. Lorenz) on June 25, 1895, 834 (70.2%) of the 1186 citizens eligible to vote took part. All candidates nominated by the Father City Association were elected. Thiel, who was also supported by the association for the promotion of the acquisition of the citizenship of Lübeck , received 616 votes.

After the township elections in 1901, Thiel received 429 of the votes cast, due to the revised constitution of October 26, 1907, citizenship elections had to be carried out on November 19 with the corresponding constitutional amendment according to the new electoral law. In the Marien-Magdalenen Quartier and St. Lorenz Nord, 379 votes were cast in section 1 of 465 eligible voters. Thiel received 335 votes.

At the counsels and civil deadline of 29 October 1894 appointing secret commission was to the Senate appointed senators Wilhelm Brehmer , Heinrich Klug and Johann Hermann Eschenburg chosen among other Thiele as its member.

In place of the outgoing Siegfried Mühsam , the Senate elected Thiele as a civil deputy to the tax authorities .

On September 11, 1911, Rudolf Thiel appeared in front of the assembled citizenship and informed them that he was forced to cease the work he had become cherished in the citizenship due to increased workload and a serious eye ailment that he had hardly survived.

The resignation of Rudolf Thiel from the public life meant a loss so far more serious kind because through him the men of the close circle, not only for local political action called but were also capable received a heavy fill-gap. Difficult to fill in, since the merchants and industrialists were passive towards all civic work and the number of civic men who prepared Lübeck's new economic development in tough, sacrificed advisory work was decreasing. For parliamentary work, empirical values ​​were lost that kept the level of negotiations at a much-noticed level.

Thiel was elected to the board of the St. Matthäi parish , which was newly founded in the suburb of St. Lorenz last year, in 1897 and would later be deputy chairman and several times in welfare work.

The tram set on April 4, 1924 one at 12 noon from the market to the 45 minutes later planned cremation in the crematorium on the Vorwerker cemetery propelled extra trams available.

family

Thiel was married to Ida, daughter of Senator Friedrich Heinrich Bertling .

References

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Thiel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Factory owner Rudolf Thiel †. , in: Lübeckische advertisements . , Volume 174, No. 26, second sheet, edition of January 31, 1924
  • Factory director Rudolph Thiel †. , in: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1923/24, No. 6, edition of February 24, 1924, p. 21.
  • Rudolf Thiel Sr. †. , In: Von Lübeck's Towers , 34th year 1905, No. 2, edition of February 16, 1924, p. 8.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ enamel factories 1869-1914 in Rüdiger blessing Busch: Lübeck industrial culture, era - factories in Luebeck , Luebeck 1993, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild , ISBN 3-7950-0114-5 , pp 93-94.
  2. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 15, No. 54, edition of July 9, 1873, p. 300.
  3. ^ Agricultural exhibition in Bremen , in: Lübeckische Blätter , 16th year, No. 52, edition of July 1, 1874, p. 307.
  4. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 26, No. 71, Edition of September 3, 1884, p. 436.
  5. ↑ Carl Thiel †. , in: Lübeckische Blätter , 34th volume, No. 25, edition of March 27, 1892, p. 147.
  6. ↑ Lübeck's first cigarette factory Lubeca in the chapter: Enamel factories 869-1914 in Rüdiger Segenbusch: Lübeck industrial culture , times of change - factories in Lübeck , Lübeck 1993, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild , ISBN 3-7950-0114-5 , pp. 92-110.
  7. ^ J. Fahl: Lübeck's economic life in the present. An economic statistical study on the history of a commercial and industrial city. , Verlag Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck 1935, p. 124.
  8. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 30, No. 45, edition of June 3, 1888, p. 268.
  9. ↑ Chamber of Commerce. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 36, No. 47, Edition of June 13, 1894, p. 188.
  10. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 30, No. 46, edition of June 6, 1888, p. 276.
  11. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 36, No. 52, edition of July 1, 1894, p. 366.
  12. ↑ Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 36th volume, no. 56, edition of July 15, 1894, pp. 389–390.
  13. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 36, No. 13, Edition of February 14, 1894, p. 104.
  14. ↑ Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 37th volume, no. 100, edition of December 18, 1895, pp. 633–635.
  15. ↑ The Commerz-Bank was not the Commerzbank that had a branch in the city at the same time . See also here .
  16. ↑ Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 37th volume, no. 38, edition of June 28, 1896, pp. 284–285.
  17. ↑ Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 37, No. 41, edition of July 19, 1896, pp. 314–315.
  18. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 43, No. 1, edition of January 6, 1901, p. 8.
  19. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 49, No. 2, edition of January 13, 1907, p. 22.
  20. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 31, No. 50, edition of June 23, 1889, p. 288.
  21. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 37, No. 43, edition of May 29, 1895, p. 296.
  22. ↑ Citizenship elections. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 37, No. 51, edition of June 26, 1895, pp. 343–344.
  23. ^ Constitutions of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck
  24. ↑ Citizenship elections. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 49th volume, No. 47, edition of November 21, 1897, p. 565.
  25. ↑ Citizens' Committee. , in: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 36, No. 88, Edition of November 4, 1894, p. 581.
  26. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 37, No. 53, edition of July 3, 1895, p. 356.
  27. ^ Rudolf Thiel. In: Von Lübeck Towers , 21st year, No. 40, edition of October 7, 1911, pp. 319-320.
  28. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 39, No. 29, Edition of July 18, 1897, p. 358.
personal data
SURNAME Thiel, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiel, Rudolph (misspelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, manufacturer and member of the Lübeck citizenship
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1924
Place of death Lübeck