Wilhelm Vogelsang

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Wilhelm Vogelsang (born February 16, 1877 in Niederwenigern , † September 6, 1939 in Essen ) was a German entrepreneur .

family

Wilhelm Vogelsang was born in the Vogelsang grain distillery in Niederwenigern-Dumberg, today Hattingen , as the son of Johann Max Heinrich Vogelsang (1849–1903) and Elisabeth Bernhardine Vogelsang, née. Oberste Barenberg (1849–1895) born. His family comes from the Saarland . There she ran a distillery since 1750 and was active in the manufacture of steel springs. Wilhelm Vogelsang was the second oldest son and had four brothers and two sisters.

Vogelsang married Antonie Weltmann (1892–1972) on July 15, 1915. The couple had five children.

Live and act

Vogelsang attended elementary school in Niederwenigern and then learned distilling in his father's company. After the death of his father he took over the management of the distillery. In 1910 he had his inheritance paid off and on September 27, 1910 acquired the Villa Vogelsang , the Horster Mühle and 130 acres of land (fields and forest) on the right side of the Ruhr . In the same year he also acquired the Wohlverwahr colliery .

In 1928, the then owner of the Horst manor , Count von Marchant and Ansembourg (1887–1959), was looking for a buyer for the property adjoining the Vogelsang estate and for the Silberkuhle quarry . Vogelsang acquired both and thus reunited a large part of the lands of the former Lords of Horst in one hand. In 1939 he had to hand over the core of the estate, measuring 160 acres, to the tax authorities for the construction of a military training area .

He had the Villa Vogelsang named after him converted into a representative residential building. He built the colliery building that is still preserved today at the Wohlverwahrt colliery, and a carbide factory in the Horster Mühle . He expanded the structural facilities by adding storeys to the old mill and dyeing building and building new workshops. The system is dominated by the high chimney with the name of W. Vogelsang. In addition, there was a hydropower plant as well as a boiler house and steam turbine system in order to meet the high demand for electricity in the production of calcium carbide . The hydropower plant was expanded in 1923.

The production of carbide is technically very complex. The fact that Vogelsang converted a watermill into a carbide factory without the relevant specialist knowledge shows great entrepreneurial daring. However, setbacks and failures were inevitable. After the steam turbine explosion, carbide production had to be stopped in 1932 and the factory shut down. The hydropower plant continued to operate and supplied electricity to the public grid.

The mining of coal in the Wohlverwahrt colliery was around 10,000 tons in 1920 with around 65 employees. In 1921, large parts of the river fell victim to a flood in the Ruhr , and on March 1, 1923, production was stopped. From June 30, 1925, operations were inactive. In order to expand the mine and to resume coal production, Vogelsang sold its license for the carbide syndicate after giving up carbide production. He did not live to see the success that followed.

Vogelsang injured the back of his head in a fall and died of a stroke on September 6, 1939 . He was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Essen-Horst .

Streets named after members of the family

In the Horst district of Essen, Vogelsang had roads expanded or built. The Antonienallee was named after his wife in 1919 and the Eberhardstraße in 1922 after his son Eberhard, who ran a mine in South Africa as a mountain assessor . The Wilhelm-Vogelsang-Weg has existed in a new development area since 2013 .

literature

  • I. Voigt: Horst Castle. The story of an old house on the Ruhr. 1142-1983 , Pomp and Sobkowiak, Essen, 1983. ISBN 3-922693-54-7 .
  • C. Voigt , R. Wiesemann: treasure hunters, industrial barons, nuns and inventors. The first 160 years of Villa Vogelsang in Essen / Horst , Nobel-Verlag GmbH, Essen, 2001. ISBN 3-922785-76-X .
  • W. Buschmann : Horster Mühle. Carbide factory, power station in Horst

Individual evidence

  1. ^ I. Voigt, Horst Castle. The story of an old house on the Ruhr. 1142-1983 , Pomp and Sobkowiak, Essen, 1983. ISBN 3-922693-54-7
  2. ↑ Horster Mill. In: RVR Route Industrial Culture. Regional Association Ruhr, accessed on September 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ B. Harting, N. Kostanowicz, E. Dick Hoff, Essen roads , 2nd ed., Text Verlag, Essen, 2015. ISBN 978-3-8375-0848-2
  4. ↑ Horster Mill | Object view. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Vogelsang, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederwenigern
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1939
Place of death eat