Wilhelm Fitzner (boiler manufacturer)
Wilhelm Fitzner (born February 8, 1833 in Gleiwitz , † January 3, 1905 in Laurahütte ) was a boiler manufacturer.
Life
His father of the same name († February 27, 1878), a master blacksmith from Central Silesia, had moved to Laurahütte in 1836, had taken over the forging work in the newly built ironworks and in 1855 he expanded his boiler shop into a boiler factory.
Wilhelm attended the local private school and the Realschule zum Zwinger in Breslau. As a primary school student , he had to leave school and work in his father's company. For further training he was an intern at Borsig in Berlin and the mechanical engineering institute Gustav Heinrich v. Ruffer in Wroclaw . During this time he also did his military service as a one-year volunteer in Grenadier Regiment No. 11 in Wroclaw.
In 1867, the R. Fitzner company for small ironware and telegraph construction was founded. Two years later, Fitzner expanded his father's business and in 1875 began to manufacture vessels and pipes of all kinds for steam heating, gas pipes as well as buoys, culvert pipes and battle masts on a large scale . After the Russian Ministry of Economic Affairs had repeatedly increased tariffs on iron and iron products in 1877, he founded a second boiler factory in Sosnowitz in 1881 with Konrad Gamper (1849–1899) from Stetten (Thurgau). Since this plant grew larger than intended, he ceded it to a stock corporation in 1895 in order to provide it with funds for expansion. in 1892 he introduced hydraulic riveting and six years later water gas welding. His brother Richard died on January 26, 1895 in Carlsbad.
family
Fitzner had seven sons and six daughters.
literature
- Alfons Perlick: Fitzner, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 218 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wojciech Saryusz-Zaleski: Dzieje przemysłu w b. Galicji; 1804-1929. Ze szczególnem uwzgle dn. historji rozwoju SAL Destinationsiewski & Fitzner-Gamper. Kraków 1930, OCLC 29070456 . (Polish)
- Alfons Perlick : Upper Silesian miners and smelters. Kitzingen / Main 1953, DNB 453735495 , p. 85.
Individual evidence
- ^ Fitzner, Wilhelm. ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: New German biography. Volume 5, Berlin, 1961, p. 218.
- ↑ VDI-Z .; Volume 49 (1905), p. 149.
- ^ Advertisement from Fitzner ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ A. Borsig Zentralverwaltung GmbH - Finding aid. ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB) at: landesarchiv-berlin.de
- ↑ Konrad Gamper. in WikiZaglebie (Polish)
- ↑ Richard Fitzner's death notification (PDF; 570 kB) in the Kattowitzer Kreisblatt, February 1, 1895.
Web links
- A. Borsig Zentralverwaltung GmbH - Finding aid. (PDF; 1.1 MB) at: landesarchiv-berlin.de
- Conrad Matschoss: 50 years of engineering work in Upper Silesia. Springer, Berlin 1907. (online at: digitalis.uni-koeln.de ) (PDF; 1.3 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fitzner, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Boiler manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gliwice |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1905 |
| Place of death | Laurahütte |