Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff
Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff ( born June 5, 1825 in Magdeburg; † 7 March 1892 in Berlin) was a German entrepreneur and founder of the Berliner Maschinenbau - Actien Society ( BMAG ).
Life
Between 1831 and 1842 he attended high school in Magdeburg and the local trade school, where at his brother Werner von Siemens, he took mathematics classes together with Carl Wilhelm Siemens. 1842-1845 Schwartzkopff visited the Commercial Institute in Berlin, founded by Wilhelm Beuth. This was followed by his practical training at the company Borsig, where he met personally August Borsig. Schwartzkopff finished this training with a six-month working as a locomotive engineer on the Berlin- Hamburg Railway. Between 1847 and 1851 he was a machinist of Magdeburg- Wittenberg railroad.
With the support of his family he acquired in the suburbs of Berlin Oranienburger the property Chausseestraße 20, which was bounded on the south by the disability road and to the east by the Berlin- Szczecin railway. In the latter area is the underground station north of the north-south railway station S-Bahn.
On 3 October 1852 he founded in Berlin and the Berlin foundry master Nitsche iron foundry and machine shop Schwartzkopff and Nitsche, from 1870, the Berliner Maschinenbau - Actien Society formerly L. Schwartzkopff emerged. Schwartzkopff was to step up the mechanical engineering, while Nitsche rather preferred the art casting. Schwartzkopff paid therefore Nitsche in 1853 and led the company from now on as the sole owner. Until 30 June 1888, he was general manager of the company, then retired but back from the company.
The production of his company for the military and railway requirements meant that Schwartzkopff in the 1860s, the title was awarded Commerce. As from 1867 the production of locomotives for freight trains Niederschlesisch - Märkischen railway, Schwartzkopff outsourced general mechanical engineering on a previously acquired land in the arable road, while the parent plant to the added purchased land Chausseestraße 19 and 23 spread. In addition Schwartzkopff had expanded the location on the road 13-28 Schering in Berlin- healthy well.
End of the 1880s Schwartzkopff was appointed to the State Council of the Prussian government. On March 7, 1892 Victor Robert Louis Schwartzkopff died from the effects of a stroke. He was buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery in Berlin. The government created by architect Carl Schilling grave monument bears the cast in bronze portrait Schartzkopffs, a work of the sculptor Lilli Wislicenus - Finzelberg.
Schwartzkopff was curator of the Lazarus Hospital near the company headquarters. Also nearby is the Schwartzkopffstraße in Berlin-Mitte was built and named in honor of him on 12 March 1889.