William Thomas Mulvany

William Thomas Mulvany ( born March 11, 1806 Dublin, Ireland, † October 30, 1885 in Dusseldorf ) was an Irish entrepreneurs in Germany.

Life

Mulvany was one of seven children of a middle-class Catholic family in Dublin. His father was a painter. In 1832 he married Alicia Winslow, the daughter of a landowner from Fermanagh. He had five children with her. From 1855 until his death lived Mulvany in Dusseldorf, where he lived in the Knappengut in PEMPELFORT district. From 1872 he resided at summer house Goldschmieding in Castrop -Rauxel, where he had to create a country park and a racecourse. By 1875 he was in Herne also the " Mulvany Villa " build, but it is not known that he also lived there. He died in 1885 and was buried at the Düsseldorf North Cemetery. The city of Gelsenkirchen already named him an honorary citizen in 1880. In Herne one lying near the former colliery Shamrock street was named after him in 1908. Also Castrop -Rauxel, Recklinghausen and Dusseldorf named streets after the entrepreneur. An Irish Pub in Marlborough and a brand of beer a brewery Oberhausen also bear his name.

Career in Ireland

Mulvany qualified by practical experience as an engineer. He learned technical drawing with an architect and joined at the age of 20 years as a surveyor in the service of the Irish Survey Office. In 1836 he became a member of the Board of Public Works, one of the UK Treasury subordinate authority to improve the infrastructure in backward Ireland. Mulvany was successively responsible for Projektionierung of waterways and the modernization of the fishing industry, but especially for the drainage of large areas for the purpose of agricultural utilization. During the Great Irish Famine 1845-1849 the enterprises of the Board of Works the same job creation schemes for the rural population were suffering. The costs were borne by the state and the landowners. 1853, the work was stopped due to high costs. Mulvany acknowledged then the civil service.

Entrepreneur

Mulvany 1855 came as a representative and member of a group of Irish investors to Germany to participate in the coal mining industry in the Ruhr area. In order to develop the Hibernia mines in Gelsenkirchen and Shamrock in Herne he hired British experts and let them introduce new mining methods.

His special focus Mulvany on transportation, distribution and development of new markets for subsidized in the Ruhr coal. This earned him the recognition of the public, but not optimized, the yield of the mines. In 1864 he was dismissed by the owners of Hibernia and Shamrock. As in 1873, the mining company Hibernia was sold, put the new corporation Mulvany as a CEO.

Already addition to his work for the investors had planned for their own account Mulvany new mine surveying. In 1866 he founded, together with other entrepreneurs by the Prussian Mining and Metallurgical Company ( PBHAG ). The PBHAG included the mines Hansa and Zollern and the newly created Erin, as well as ore mines and ironworks Vulcan. Because of costly technical problems during the development of mines and due to a faltering development of the railway links the PBHAG made ​​losses and was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1877 while the founder crisis.

Association politicians

Even as entrepreneurs Mulvany worked closely with the German mining authorities together and informed them regularly on the work carried out under his direction. Therefore, the transfer of English mining technology, sustainable modernized mining in the Ruhr area, especially connected with his person.

As an association member and memoranda to Mulvany continued to use for the expansion of the transport system. He thus gained a certain influence on the industrial interest groups nascent. In 1871 he became chairman of the " association for the protection of the interests of Rhenish and Westphalian entrepreneurs Rhineland and Westphalia " for the Bismarck, the term " Langnamverein " coined. Mulvany had 1874 on the establishment of a stock exchange association in Dusseldorf. So he made ​​a major contribution to Dusseldorf by the settlement of other associations and interest groups eventually acquired the position of a central place " desk of the Ruhr area ".

Works

• The creation of a Central Station and the design of the rail network in and around Dusseldorf for nationalization of the railways: with regard to international traffic and the connection to the Rhine / by Wm T. Mulvany. - Dusseldorf: . Michels, 1880 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
• Düsseldorf harbor question: Explanation of the properties Projects of William Thomas Mulvany from 1873 and 1883/84; with Supplement and beige glued sketch / TR Mulvany. - Dusseldorf: . Judge, 1890 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
• Railway fare Reform: Germany's transport; with a tariff card or graphical representation of the existing tariff anomalies / by Wm T. Mulvany. - Dusseldorf: . Voss, 1877 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf