Wilhelm Seippel

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50th anniversary catalog, 1908
Carbide lamp from Wilhelm Seippel GmbH, Bochum
Various gasoline safety lights; in the middle a Seippel lamp ZL 6 (igniter lamp 6)

Wilhelm Seippel (born May 6, 1832 in Spenge , † October 5, 1906 in Bochum ) was a German entrepreneur and pit lamp manufacturer in Bochum.

Life

Wilhelm Seippel was the son of Philipp Seippel (1785–1842). In 1859 he founded a hardware store in Bochum, opposite the provost church of St. Peter and Paul at Altenmarkt 1–3. Shortly after the establishment, a locksmith's shop was added.

Wilhelm Seippel GmbH emerged from this company , a plant that manufactured miner's lamps in particular, including gasoline and carbide lamps . The Wilhelm Seippel mine safety lamps and machine factory was taken over in 1918 by Concordia Electrizitäts-AG , which manufactured electric mine lamps. In 1935 she moved to Langestrasse (now Karl-Lange-Strasse 53).

Seippel was a Freemason and a member of the Bochum Lodge on the Three Rosebuds ; A hexagram in the masonry of his former factory still testifies to this today . He is buried in Kortumpark Bochum .

See also

literature

  • Wilhelm Seippel: 75 years of Seippel's mine lamps: a memorandum; [1858-1933]. Self-published, 1933.
  • Wilhelm Seippel GmbH in Bochum. In: Robert Theo Schnadt: Bochum: Economic structure and interdependence of a large city in the Ruhr area. Pöppinghaus, Bochum-Langendreer 1936, p. 87.
  • Martin Zürn: The Wilhelm Seippel company from Bochum and their mine safety lights. Self-published, Mülheim an der Ruhr, 2015, 85 pages. PDF
  • Fähndrich: The current state of the safety lighting system . In: Association for mining interests in the Dortmund Oberamtsgebiet, Westfälische Berggewerkschaftskasse , Rheinisch-Westfälisches Kohlensyndikat (Hrsg.): The development of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian hard coal mining in the second half of the 19th century . 1st edition. Volume VII: Sprinkling, pit fire, rescue services, lighting, explosives, test track. Springer, Berlin 1904, ISBN 978-3-642-51893-5 , lighting, p. 237–249 ( excerpt from Google Books [accessed January 22, 2016] reprint of the 1st edition).

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Seippel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stern in the Gerberviertel reminds of Freemasons. In: WAZ, January 8, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 14 "  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 34.3"  E

personal data
SURNAME Seippel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Spenge
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1906
Place of death Bochum