Wilhelm Steigerwald
Wilhelm Steigerwald (born June 9, 1804 in Prague , † November 30, 1869 in Rabenstein ) was a Bohemian-German industrialist .
He was the son of Franz Steigerwald senior. and left his hometown Prague with his parents in 1808. Steigerwald grew up in Würzburg , where his father opened a processing workshop and glass sales in 1812.
In 1832 he worked as a glass merchant in Haida, North Bohemia, in the local Palais Kinsky together with Friedrich Egermann . In 1836 he and his brother Franz Steigerwald began building the Theresienthal glass factory in the Bavarian Forest . On July 1, 1837, he joined the company as a co-shareholder and in 1839 he settled himself in Theresienthal, where he acted as a technical works manager and received a five-year privilege from the Bavarian government for the gold ruby glass he produced in 1840. In December 1842 he gave up his post as director after disputes with the shareholders.
In 1844 he leased the Schachtenbach glassworks in the Rabenstein glassworks and operated it from April 23, 1844. In 1847, after the von Kiesling family died out, he secured the heritable building rights for the Regenhütte, which also belonged to the Kiesling estate . In 1849 King Max II and his wife visited him, in 1853 Prince Luitpold , who later became Prince Regent.
In 1855, Wilhelm Steigerwald was the only German manufacturer to be awarded a gold medal in Paris. Under him Schachtenbach had achieved a leading position among the glassworks in the Bavarian Forest. On March 30, 1859, the lease agreement with the mirror glass factory Fischer / Ziegler from Erlangen for the rain hut came to an end and Steigerwald became the leaseholder. At the request of the state forest authority, he negotiated the relocation of the Schachtenbachhütte to Regenhütte and after the contract was signed on September 22, 1863, he began building a new glassworks in Regenhütte, the building of which is still there today. The glassworks in Schachtenbach was closed and almost all of the residents moved to Regenhütte. Steigerwald himself also moved to Regenhütte in 1865.
In 1860 or 1863, Steigerwald built a large wooden villa with a park in Rabenstein, where today's “New Castle” was built in 1912. He died in his villa in November 1869. He was married to Henriette Reinhold from Zweibrücken , who died three years after him. Their children were daughter Louise (1832–1840), son Oskar (1837–1840), son Wilhelm (March 17, 1843–1880) and the glass artist Henriette von Poschinger (December 1, 1845–1903). Steigerwald is buried in the cemetery in Zwiesel .
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- ↑ http://www.regenhuette.de/Chronik2.pdf
- ↑ according to Erwin Steckbauer: He shaped the development of Rabenstein , 2009, see literature
literature
- Erwin Steckbauer: He shaped the development of Rabenstein. On the 140th anniversary of the death of the glassworker Wilhelm Steigerwald , in: Der Bayerwald Bote No. 203 from September 3, 2009
- Ingeborg Seyfert: From Theresienthal to Schachtenbach , in: Der Bayerwald-Bote from September 21, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steigerwald, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German glass manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1869 |
| Place of death | Rabenstein |