Adolf Gottlieb (also: Gottlob) Fiedler (1771 – 12 August 1850) was a German entrepreneur in
Saxony
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and
Poland
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.
Life
Born in
Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...
as the son of Christian Gottlob Fiedler, Adolf was one of the most important cloth producers of Saxony in the beginning of the 19th century. The operational seat of the company was in
Oederan
Oederan is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.
Geography
Oederan is situated 14 km southwest of Freiberg, 17 km east of Chemnitz and about 50 km west of Dresden.
The town includes the villages of Börni ...
in Saxony. He also had factories in
Kalisz
Kalisz () is a city in central Poland, and the second-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, with 97,905 residents (December 2021). It is the capital city of the Kalisz Region. Situated on the Prosna river in the southeastern part of Gr ...
and
Opatówek
Opatówek is a town of 3,800 inhabitants in central Poland, situated southeast from Kalisz, in the Kalisz County in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The Gmina, commune (Gmina) of Opatówek, including the town of Opatówek and 26 other villages, h ...
(both in Poland),
Wegefarth,
Wingendorf,
Falkenau and
Berthelsdorf (all in Saxony). He followed other cloth producers to eastern regions at the time of the German
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global economy toward more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes, succee ...
because of lower salaries and large loans offered by the Polish government. The German investments in Poland were followed by experienced Saxon and
Bohemia
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n specialists to run the factories. An additional reason was local water power.
From 1824 to 1826 Fiedler established one of the biggest cloth mills in Congress Poland. He employed around 600 workers in his Polish mill in Opatówek. The products of Fiedler were well known for their quality and won several international prizes.
Fiedler was also
mayor
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of Oederan.
He had one son, Eduard Magnus and he died in Dresden.
See also
*
Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution
Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines in the United Kingdom. The main drivers of the Industrial Revolution were textile manufacturing, iron foundi ...
References
* Rudolf Forberger: "Industrielle Revolution in Sachsen 1800-1861", Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1982 Band 1/2 Page 147-150
Opatowek Library
1771 births
1850 deaths
Businesspeople from Dresden
Mayors of places in Saxony
People from the Electorate of Saxony
18th-century German businesspeople
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