Wilhelm Boller (entrepreneur)
Franz Wilhelm Boller (born July 9, 1835 in Bonn , † May 15, 1921 in Braunschweig ) was a German wallpaper manufacturer .
Life
Wilhelm Boller was born in Bonn in 1835 as the son of a wallpaper manufacturer. He and his brother Franz Joseph Boller ran a wallpaper trade at Gördelingerstraße 1 in Braunschweig and a wallpaper factory he founded in 1866 on Frankfurter Straße , which initially employed three semi-skilled workers. The positive development of the Boller company was favored by a growing need for wallpaper that could not be met by the factories that existed in Germany at the time. As a result of the decline in French wallpaper production after the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71 and the switch from hand printing to machine printing, the performance of the Boller'schen wallpaper factory increased tenfold from its foundation to the mid-1870s. The factory was relocated to Helenenstraße 6 in 1874 for reasons of space . This year the company already employed 100 people and delivered 25,000 pieces of wallpaper per week. In 1899 the company still had around 50 employees and produced around one million rolls of wallpaper per year. A special factory health insurance fund had existed for employees since 1874. The products have also been exported; B. to Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, South America and Siberia.
In 1889 the older and largest wallpaper factories in Germany merged to form the Association of German Wallpaper Manufacturers , of which Boller became the first chairman. At times he was deputy chairman of the arts and crafts association in Braunschweig, which was founded in 1877 .
His son Hugo Boller took over the wallpaper factory. Wilhelm Boller died in Braunschweig in May 1921 at the age of 86.
literature
- Britta Berg: Boller, Franz Wilhelm . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 79 .
- Richard Bettgenhaeuser: The industries of the Duchy of Braunschweig. I. Theil , Albert Limbach, Braunschweig, 1899, pp. 187-188. ( Digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Bettgenhaeuser: The industries of the Duchy of Braunschweig. I. Theil , Albert Limbach, Braunschweig, 1899, p. 187 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Christoph Sandler: Handbook of the efficiency of the entire industry of Germany, Austria, Alsace-Lorraine and Switzerland , Volume 2, Leipzig 1874, p. 90.
- ↑ Heinrich Olligs : wallpaper. Their history to the present , Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1970, p. 78.
- ↑ Annual report of the Kunstgewerbe-Verein in Braunschweig , Braunschweig 1899, p. 4. ( digitized version )
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boller, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boller, Franz Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wallpaper manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1921 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |