Wilhelm Stolz

Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhard Stolz (born June 21, 1860 in Eiserfeld , † May 31, 1954 in Wuppertal ) was a German entrepreneur and inventor.

Life

The Heimathaus in Eiserfeld, where Wilhelm Stolz was born

Wilhelm Stolz grew up as the son of Friedrich Stolz and Sophie Catherine Baumgarten in what is now the Eiserfeld Museum of Local History. His father was a miner in ore mining and trades ( shareholder in the Reinhold Forster Erbstollen ) and left his sons and stepson Karl Hartmann a considerable fortune. In 1892 the Stolz brothers acquired the “ Alter Hammer ” hammer mill in Eiserfeld and set up a rolling mill there .

Her first marriage to Marie-Caroline Weiss had five children; after her death, Stolz married Pauline Brockhaus, a daughter of Carl Brockhaus , and had five more children with her. In 1898 he built a villa between the two locations of the rolling mill and the ore mine. Today it is the headquarters of Vetter Fördertechnik .

Having grown up spiritually in the Siegerland pietistic community movement , Stolz later came into contact with the Brethren movement . He was arrested for circumventing the 1937 ban on assembly , but later released because of his advanced age. A large fortune perished as a result of economic crises and world wars , and pride died impoverished.

Services

Wilhelm Stolz's wealth of ideas led to several smaller patented inventions , which, however, were not properly marketed by him economically. Examples are:

• a method for the machine rolling of horseshoe nails
• a lock latch as an additional safeguard for vehicle doors
• an "iron sparkle clear" hammer through the development of iron warrant free alloy

See also

• Carl Brockhaus , Wilhelm Stolz's father-in-law
• Karl Hartmann , half-brother of Wilhelm Stolz

Web links

• The house where Eiserfeld was born
• Genealogy of Wilhelm Stolz
• Pietism and the coal and steel industry in Siegerland (PDF file; 178 kB)
• DPMA - German Patent and Trademark Office