Wolfgang Caspar Fikentscher

Wolfgang Caspar Fikentscher (born May 3, 1770 in Redwitz (today: Marktredwitz), † March 7, 1837 there ) was a Franconian pharmacist, chemical manufacturer and member of parliament.

Career

Fikentscher was an apprentice pharmacist in Nuremberg in 1788. In the same year he returned to his parents' house in Redwitz , where he founded a chemical laboratory which, within a few years, developed into the Marktredwitz chemical factory , the first industrial chemical production facility in Germany. From 1814 Fikentscher also ran a glassworks . In 1822 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe visited the factory.

In addition to his entrepreneurial activity, Fikentscher began a political career in 1806 when he was accepted into the sworn community by the magistrate. In 1809 he became mayor of Redwitz, which at that time still belonged to Bohemia . Even after Redwitz fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 , he kept this post until 1824. On November 27, 1827, Fikentscher replaced the deceased Felix Silbermann as a member of class V (other landowners) in the Chamber of Deputies of the Bavarian Estates Assembly , of which he was a member until 1834. He was considered mostly loyal to the government.

After his death, his sons Matthäus Wilhelm and - until his departure in 1848 - Friedrich Christian continued the factory. In 1891 the descendants of Fikentscher sold the factory to the brothers Oskar Bruno and Curt Bernhard Tropitzsch. Production was never relocated from the center of Marktredwitz, which in 1985 led to the forced closure of the factory and one of the biggest environmental scandals in Germany.

literature

Wolfgang Caspar Fikentscher: with the portrait of the deceased: [Nekrolog] . Fleischmann, 1837 ( digitized in the Google book search).
Marianne Leber: Fikentscher, Wolfgang Caspar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 145 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Wolfgang Caspar Fikentscher in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

^ Woldemar von Biedermann : Goethe and the Fikentscher. Teubner, Dresden 1878 ( digitized version ).
^ Goethe in the chemical laboratory in Marktredwitz ; On the occasion of d. 150 years Established on July 24, 1788, the first German chem. Factory WC Fikentscher, d. today Chem. Factory Marktredwitz AG Berlin 1938.
↑ Gunhild Berg: New Views on Goethe's “Desired Color Pictures”. A previously unedited letter from Wolfgang Kaspar Fikentscher to Regina Susanna Johanna Martius dated August 28, 1822. In: Goethe-Jahrbuch Vol. 126. Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISSN 0323-4207 , pp. 245-259.
↑ Cfm Oskar Tropitzsch: History
↑ We often turned a blind eye . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1988, pp. 81-88 ( online ).

personal data
SURNAME	Fikentscher, Wolfgang Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fikentscher, Wolfgang Kaspar; Fikentscher, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pharmacist, chemical manufacturer, member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH	Redwitz
DATE OF DEATH	March 7, 1837
Place of death	Redwitz

[1] Woldemar von Biedermann : Goethe and the Fikentscher. Teubner, Dresden 1878 ( digitized version ).

[2] Goethe in the chemical laboratory in Marktredwitz ; On the occasion of d. 150 years Established on July 24, 1788, the first German chem. Factory WC Fikentscher, d. today Chem. Factory Marktredwitz AG Berlin 1938.

[3] Gunhild Berg: New Views on Goethe's “Desired Color Pictures”. A previously unedited letter from Wolfgang Kaspar Fikentscher to Regina Susanna Johanna Martius dated August 28, 1822. In: Goethe-Jahrbuch Vol. 126. Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISSN 0323-4207 , pp. 245-259.

[4] Cfm Oskar Tropitzsch: History

[5] We often turned a blind eye . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1988, pp. 81-88 ( online ).