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SALITRERA DEPERO OFFICE FIGUER FölSCH & MARTÍN IN LA NORIA, Chile. Photograph von 1889.
This first of a total of eight saltpetal works was created in 1872, sold in 1916 and closed in 1931. The ruins of the work ( 20 ° 22 ′ S , 69 ° 52 ′ IN -20.37083333333 -69.8694444444444 990 ) In the Fölsch that White gold Woned and thus set up his assets are unnoticed in the desert today. [first] [2] [3]

Hermann Conrad Johannes Fölsch (Born November 19, 1845 in Hamburg, † December 1, 1920 in Moholz near Niesky) was a German merchant, entrepreneur and shipowner.

Hermann C. J. Fölsch traveled to South America in 1866 and, together with the German-Chilean Frederico Martin in 1872, founded a company to obtain salpeter in Iquique in the Atacama desert in northern Chiles. Fölsch’s youth friend and later brother -in -law Henry B. Sloman [4] Traveled to him and worked for twenty years as his managing director before he started his own business and built his own saltpeter empire in Chile. The business developed unusually successfully. Chile -Salpeter was the most important raw material for the production of aniline colors, explosives and fertilizers, and so Germany’s most important buyers of Chile Salpeter in Europe became Germany’s most important buyers. As a result, the port of Hamburg was particularly prosperous: within 40 years, the import of saltpeters increased to almost 40 times to 509,800 tons in 1905, which the companies of Hermann C. J. Fölsch and Henry Sloman had a very large part.

In 1881, Fölsch founded his own shipping company to retain the trade with ChileSalpeter in his own hand. [5] In 1914 the company had four sailors with a good 9,000 net register tons. Due to the dangerous route around the Cape Horn, it was a high risk business, but promised enormous income: the steel four mastern bark Past the Hamburg shipping company Ferdinand Laeisz [6] [7] Could transport over 4000 tons of chilesalpeter, which corresponded to a freight value of over one million marks (today around ten million euros). Hermann Fölsch invested his profits, especially in real estate. Little by little he bought several properties and houses at the Hamburg town hall market. After the Second World War, the “Fölsch-Block” is directly opposite the Hamburg town hall [8] emerged, which is still in family ownership today.

Hermann Fölsch closed the Herrnhuter brothers [9] [ten] at. As a friend of Johannes Wichern [11] he was committed to endangered young people, donated large sums and donated houses in Hamburg in Hamburg on Fehlandtstraße and in the Esplanade for the establishment of a Christian waiter’s home. This later emerged the Hotel Baseler Hof. [twelfth]

  1. ↑ Robert Krieg, Monika Nolte: White gold. The history . (Spanish, krieg-nolle.de [accessed on May 19, 2013]).
  2. ↑ Juan Ricardo Couyoumdjian: Chile and Great Britain during World War I and the postwar period 1914-1921 . Editoria Andrés Bello, Santiago de Chile 1986, LCCN lc86-222403 , S. 340 ( online [accessed on May 19, 2013]).
  3. ↑ Miguel González P.: Dr. Oscar Contreras Tapia . Chilean surgery teachers. In: Chilean Surgery Magazine . Band 47 , No. first , February 1995, ISSN 0379-3893 , S. 8–12 (Spanish, Sample [accessed on May 19, 2013]).
  4. ↑ Rudolf Martin (ed.): Yearbook of the assets and income of the millionaires in the three Hansast cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck). Berlin 1912, S. 1.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Meyer: Hamburg’s sailing ships 1795–1945. Chronicle of Seefahrt, Verlag Egon Heinemann Norderstedt
  6. ↑ Hans Georg Prager: F. Laeisz. From the freight sailor to the Bulk carrier. Koehler’s Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Herford 1974, ISBN 3-7822-0096-9.
  7. ↑ Peter Klingbeil: The Flying P-Liner. The sailing ships of the shipping company F. Laeisz. Verlag Die Hansse, Hamburg 1998 and 2000, ISBN 3-434-52562-9.
  8. ↑ History Fölsch-Block
  9. ↑ Dietrich Meyer: Zinzendorf and the Herrnhut brothers. 1700–2000. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-01390-8.
  10. ↑ Gisela Metters: World bourgeoisie or the kingdom of God. The Herrnhut brothers as a global community 1727–1857. (= Bourgeoisie , New episode. Volume 4). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-36844-2. (At the same time habilitation thesis, Technical University of Chemnitz, 2004)
  11. ↑ Stephan Sturm: The welfare state and Christian-social idea. Johann Hinrich Wichern’s social theology and her newer reception from a system -theoretical perspective. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-016879-4.
  12. ↑ History of the Baseler Hof