Theodor von Gimborn

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Theodor von Gimborn (before 1916)

Theodor Reinhardt von Gimborn (born August 11, 1840 in Emmerich ; † November 14, 1916 there ) was a German engineer and industrialist .

Life

Theodor von Gimborn came based in Emmerich at least since the 17th century apothecary family of Gimborn and was the son of a pharmacist Theodor Caspar von Gimborn (1801-1879) and Johanna Hendrina Westhooven (1805-1880). His brother was the pharmacist and later manufacturer Heinrich von Gimborn (1830-1893). Gimborn graduated as an engineer, about which no details are known. However, there is evidence that he studied at the Royal Commercial Institute in his hometown in 1860.

In 1868 he delivered the first coffee roasting machine he developed to the befriended coffee importer and wholesaler Lensing & van Gülpen and in the same year founded the Emmericher Maschinenfabrik & Eisengießerei van Gülpen, Lensing, with its owners Alex van Gülpen and Johann Heinrich Lensing & von Gimborn ” , today's Probat-Werke from Gimborn Maschinenfabrik GmbH . The purpose of the company was to manufacture roasting machines - primarily for coffee .

Later, the company also agricultural equipment, manufactured milling equipment, steam engines , hydraulic presses , drills and more. In 1884 the factory employed about 100 workers. The invention of the ball coffee burner, commonly known as the "Emmerich coffee burner", was granted the Reich patent no. 43027 protected. In 1892 Gimborn applied for patents for innovative coffee roasting machines in France and England, and in Germany in 1897 . He headed the company until 1913.

Gimborn was acquainted with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels .

Theodor von Gimborn married on June 6, 1874 in Elten with Emmerich Antonie van Dreveldt (1854-1947) from Voorthuizen near Barneveld ( Netherlands ), the daughter of Theodor Carl Ferdinand van Dreveldt and Caroline Barbara von Weise . The couple had two daughters and two sons, including the factory owner and heir Carl von Gimborn .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Ferdinand Ascherson : Documents on the history of the jubilee celebration of the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in October 1860, together with a list of the university's teachers from its foundation to October 15, 1862 . Verlag J. Guttentag, Berlin 1863, p. 62, serial no. 1417. ( Excerpt from Google Books .)
  2. ↑ a b workshop technology. Magazine for production and operations . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1968, Volume 58, p. 564. ( Excerpt from Google Books .)
  3. ↑ a b Wolfgang Ayaß (edit.): Collection of sources for the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 . Department II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February decrees of Wilhelm II (1881–1890). Volume 3: Worker Protection . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-534-13440-0 , p. 129. ( Excerpt from Google Books .)
  4. ↑ William H. ukers: All About Coffee →  34. The Evolution of Coffee Apparatus on www.web-books.com. (English; accessed October 8, 2010.)
personal data
SURNAME Gimborn, Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gimborn, Theodor Reinhardt von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Emmerich (today: Emmerich am Rhein )
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1916
Place of death Emmerich (today: Emmerich am Rhein )