Theodor Schwabe

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Theodor Borisovich Schwabe in Russia Fyodor Borisovich Schwabe , ( Russian Фёдор Борисович Швабе ; * 4. December 1813 in Zerbst ; † 18th December 1880 in Berlin ) was a anhaltisch - Russian optics - entrepreneurs .

Life

Theodor Schwabe came to Moscow and opened a small shop selling glasses , pince- nez and other smaller optical objects that he procured from abroad. In 1837 he added an optical repair shop and built small optical and physical devices.

In 1853 Schwabe joined the 3rd guild of Moscow merchants. He employed 12 workers in his workshop with 4 lathes and a fireplace. He was commissioner of the Kazan Imperial University and the Moscow Cadet Corps . For the first time he took part in the 10th All-Russian Manufactory Exhibition in Moscow in 1853 and exhibited models of machines, a large telescope and some microscopes , for which he received a silver medal. In 1854, a model of a cannon was made as a present for Emperor Nicholas I , for which Schwabe received a diamond ring with ruby and the order to supply all St. Petersburg and Moscow cadet corps with these models. In 1858 he became a merchant of the 2nd guild.

In 1872 Schwabe's Bavarian nephew David Albert Hamburger (1842–1901) began to work as a simple employee at Schwabe. In 1873 Schwabe founded the F. Schwabe trading house together with Hamburger . When in the 1870s antiseptic tools and devices were demanded from the medical profession , only the trading house F. Schwabe was able to satisfy the demand and successfully compete with the foreign products.

In 1880 Schwabe left the trading house F. Schwabe and handed over his share and naming rights to Hamburger, which made the trading house a large company. On the company building on Kuznetsky Most there was an astronomical tower in which the assistant of the Krasnopresnenskaya Observatory of Moscow University Konstantin Dorimedontowitsch Pokrovsky gave introductory lectures. In 1912 the trading company F. Schwabe was converted into a stock corporation.

Schwabe was married to Henriette Pauline Baumann (born January 15, 1829 in Magdeburg , † February 13, 1903 in Lichterfelde ) and had 6 children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Стелла Морозова: Из истории оптико-механических предприятий России (accessed February 5, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c d фирма «Ф. Швабе » (accessed February 5, 2019).
  3. ↑ Фёдор Швабе - основатель оптической промышленности в России (accessed February 4, 2019).
  4. ↑ History Shvabe GmbH (accessed February 4, 2019).
  5. ↑ История фирмы "Ф.Швабе" (accessed February 4, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Schwabe, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwabe, Theodor Borissowitsch (full name); Schwabe, Fyodor Borissowitsch; Швабе, Фёдор Борисович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Russian optics entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Zerbst
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1880
Place of death Berlin