Reinhold Angerstein

Reinhold Rücker Angerstein ( born October 25, 1718 Vikmanshyttan, community Hedemora; † January 5, 1760 in Stockholm) was a Swedish metallurgist, officials and entrepreneurs.

Life

Angerstein came from an old Swedish family of iron industrialist with German roots: a German great-grandfather was the owner of an iron works and emigrated to Sweden in 1639. After his schooling in Uppsala, where he graduated in 1727 at the age of 18, he worked up to his 24th year at the Swedish Supervisory Authority for the Mining and Metallurgy ( Mountain College ). With 31 years he went to 1749-1777 on several long trips abroad, which took him to Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Italy, France, Portugal, Belgium, Holland and the UK. Of these trips, which were from Jernkontoret, the Swedish iron industry lobby group of industry, finance, he sent detailed and illustrated reports in the home, in which he described his observations mainly on technical and economic aspects of mining and iron production. On his journey 1753-1755 in England and Wales he was suspected of industrial espionage. In Sheffield, where he had been interested in the industrial area of After Cliffe for a new, developed by Benjamin Huntsman method, he should have been rejected after a few hours out of town to be ..

After his return he was given a job as an assessor and director of the largest steel plants in the country ( " Direktör övfer Rikets gröfre svartsmide " ) when mountain college. From his inspection trips to Swedish steelworks sketches are also obtained.

In 1757 he bought the steel mill Vira in Uppland north-east of Stockholm, produced the weapons for the Swedish army. He developed extensive plans to expand the work, which he could not realize, however, until his death three years later.