Friedrich William raking place (* 22 February 1793 in Hagen Haspe; "† 8. March 1880 in Dortmund Hombruch), the "father of the Ruhr district", was a German entrepreneur and politician in the early period of the industriellen revolution.

Life

Its personal surrounding field lay in the Ruhr district in the city Hagen and in their environment. It was born as the fifth of eight children of the iron goods manufacturer and buyer Johann Caspar raking place IV in the house raking places. He was among other things brother of the banker and railway pioneer Gustav raking place and the mining engineer and officer Eduard raking place. After the primary school on the Quambusch it visited the vocational school in Hagen starting from 1799. It locked these in the year 1808. It made commercial teachings subsequently, at the company Mohl in Barmen Wichlinghausen. Starting from 1813 it participated together with its brother Gustav as a Prime Minister second lieutenant in the wars of liberation. With Jumet it was twice wounded and distinguished with the iron cross. In the year 1818 he married the daughter of his earlier Principals, Augusts Mohl. Its daughter Luise married 1856 the Wittener Industriellen Louis Constans Berger. Raking place died aged and in the family Erbgruft in stove corner with property Schede was buried.

Business working

Business working of raking place was in particular coined/shaped of technical and social pioneer achievements. Lasting economic success however did not adjust itself with its enterprises. The reason for this might not have lain last in it that raking place in principle each interested one permitted to visit the enterprises established by it the procedures practiced there in the detail to study and if necessary with the structure of appropriate enterprises with advice and act to the side stood. In his tendency, industrial development out of its homeland feed motion too carried supported it energetically the own competition. Tragic high point formed thereby circumstance that it just in the year 1847, in which the binding of the Hombruchs let the Bergisch lively of it become economically interesting to railway (see below) its large possessions, which it had acquired there 1827, it evenly these by seizing and enforced sale as far as possible lost.

Industrial pioneer

In its homeland Friedrich raking place applied as jerky spirit. After the death of its father 1818 it created a tannery first on the paternal property raking places and operated a copper hammer at the nearby Deilbach. One year later he already handed these two enterprises to relatives and based together with the Elberfelder to buyer and banker over Heinrich Kamp on the castle within the city weather the "mechanical workshop raking place & CO." to the production of steam engines and gas lighting apparatuses. Together with its brother Gustav it created besides a company, the forwarding business and commission operated and acted with English yarns. The Prussian authorities promoted raking place work as the first iron industry work to Westphalia and as one of the first mechanical engineering companies in the Ruhr district, because this profited from the Wasserhaltungsmaschinen for the rising mining industry at that 1826 into the Puddel and rolling mill built after English models the Puddelverfahren was Ruhr already inserted.

From raking place enterprises later the DEMAG followed in weather at the Ruhr. To its early acts in social area the creation of a staff sickness fund belonged after the model of the mountain trade union cashes of the mining industry at that time within seinens enterprise. Raking place is considered as in former times a pioneer of the industriellen revolution.

Course pioneer

In the year 1825 raking place in the number 26 of the magazine "Hermann" published the call to build between Cologne on the Rhine and Minden at the Weser a railway. At this time one began to consider the topic in Germany and raking place acted like an entrepreneur, when he published his article under the condition of a certain market strategy. Its essay began with the words: "By the rapid and probably-file taking the goods away the prosperity of a country importantly one increases."

When in the year 1824 the Englishman Henry Palmer presented a course system, with which hanging transport containers were pulled of horses, let raking place by its factory 1826 rehearse for the sake of in Elberfeld such a course set up. Together with the mountain advice Heintzmann it tried to interest the public in this forerunner, which settled however only 75 years later with the building of the Wuppertaler suspension railway.

Raking place considerations as entrepreneurs applied however above all for long-distance traffic, because for the native mining industry raking place and his enterprise already possessed a production capacity of one million Pound of rails in the year 1829.

1828 created Friedrich raking place together with Nikolaus Egen, his brother-in-law Ludwig Mohl (that the copper hammer in the Deilbachtal operated), the physician Voss from Steele (today quarter of meals) and the Langenberger buyers realm man and Meyberg, the first railway share company, attained a doctorate, on German soil. Their purpose was the building of the Deilthaler railway (Deilthaler railway corporation), which was opened on 20 September 1831 and which prince William railway received names.

In the year 1832 under its relevant influence also since 1829 the Silscheder coal course under construction was opened. At the same time raking place in the Provinziallandtag was selected. There it repeated 1831 its suggestion. 1833 published raking place again its call: "The railways from Minden to . The result was a corporation, which strove for the necessary capital for the building of the distance, because the Prussian state was not will or able to build the distance.

Due to adverse circumstances the enterprise could not be continued some time later any longer. Only 1847 were completely passable the distance by the Cologne Mindener railway. 1844-1848 were built after plans the Bergisch railway developed by raking place.

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