Wilhelm Krische

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Wilhelm Bernhard Ludwig Krische (born July 14, 1859 in Hanover ; † 1909 ) was a German inventor and entrepreneur .

Life

Krische was the son of the company's founder, Bernhard Carl Georg Krische, who, together with his business partner August Louis Victor Edler, founded the Edler & Krische company in Hanover in 1845 . In 1894, after the company's founders died, Wilhelm Krische and Otto Edler continued their fathers' company. The company Edler & Krische was a book printing, binding and lithographic printing company.

Around 1896 he invented the world's first plastic ( Galalith ) together with the chemist and entrepreneur Adolf Spitteler . Krische tried to put casein on cardboard for white school blackboards, encountered problems and called in Spitteler, who is known as a paper expert. Both received a German patent in 1897, which was followed by patents in other countries. However, the company was no longer able to finance further development itself and the patents were sold around 1900, in Germany to the United Gummiwaren-Fabriken Harburg-Wien. This happened on the initiative of von Krische's brother-in-law, Carl Kunth, who had financed the development until then. The French patents were sold to a French company, which was unsuccessful and in 1904 the Harburger Gesellschaft bought back the patent and founded the Internationale Galalith-Gesellschaft Hoff und Co. AG (IGG) in Harburg, under the direction of Kunth.

Wilhelm Krische was a partner in the Hanover company Edler und Krische from 1894 to 1906.

literature

  • Günter Lattermann: Who invented it? Adolf Spitteler and the invention of the galalith, Ferrum. News from the Iron Library, Georg Fischer AG Foundation, Volume 89, 2017, pp. 26–34 (with photo by Krische)

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supporting documents

  1. ^ Aegidienkirche (Hanover) : Church book . To baptize. No. 89/1859.
  2. ↑ According to Lattermann, Ferrum 2017. He gives the death register, Hanover registry office as the source
personal data
SURNAME Krische, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krische, Wilhelm Bernhard Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German inventor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1909