Scheubler, Karl Wilhelm

Karl Scheubler was born in the city of Monschau , which at that time belonged to the Prussian province of Juelich-Klevs-Berg . His father was a textile worker. ^[2] Scheubler studied at a school in Monschau and Krefeld and received practical education at the spinning mill of his uncle in the city of Verviers ( Belgium ). In 1839, he worked for Société anonyme, a well-known machine builder John Cocker.

Due to political instability during the revolution in 1848, Scheubler decided to leave Germany. He moved to Ozorkow in the Kingdom of Poland , where his uncle, Friedrich Schlesser, was still in charge of managing the textile factory in 1816. After the death of Schlesser, he became its commercial director ^[3] . On September 16, 1854, Scheubler married Anna Werner, Schlesser's niece. In 1852, Scheubler and his partner, Julius Schwartz, bought a plot of land in Lodz and began to build a machine-building plant on it. In October 1854, Schwartz sold his share to Scheuler for 10,000 rubles , thereby making him the sole owner of the factory.

In 1855, Scheubler established a 34-frame spinning mill with a 40 horsepower steam engine. In 1857, Sheybler hired 180 workers, and in 1860, the annual sales of the factory’s products amounted to 305,100 rubles. Scheubler made a big profit after cotton prices in Europe rose due to the beginning of the American civil war, and sold their products at a triple price ^[4] . Soon he became known as the "king of cotton and linen empires of Lodz" ^[5] . In 1870, 1911 people worked at the Sheybler factory, and the factory became the third largest cotton producer in Poland (9.3% of the total production).

The enterprise of Sheybler continued to flourish, and he bought several small factories in the areas of Zarki and Ksenzhy Mlyn. The fire destroyed the plant in Ksenzhy Mlyn in 1874, but Scheubler soon restored it, installing 88,000 spindles in it and built his own “kingdom” in Ksenizhi Mlyn: 321 families of workers, a fire station, schools, shops were built with its funds. and hospital ^{[5] [6]} . Scheubler was known for his public activities ^[7] and supported the creation of a municipal credit association - the Commercial Bank Лód (Bank Handlowy) in 1872 ^[8] , as well as the construction of Lutheran and Catholic churches ^[9] .

In 1880, Scheubler transformed his enterprise into a joint-stock company with a registered capital of 9 million rubles ^[10] .

Karl Wilhelm Scheubler died on April 13, 1881 in Lodz and was buried at the Lodz Protestant Cemetery in a mausoleum designed by Warsaw architects Joseph Dzekonsky and Edward Lilop.

Wife - Anna Werner. Together they had seven children:

• Matilda Zofia (1856―1939), was married to Edward Herbst , Managing Director of Scheubler;
• Adela Maria (born 1859), was married to the industrialist Adolf Gustav Buchholz;
• Emma Polina (1860―1879), was married to Georg von Kramste;
• Carol Wilhelm Jr. (1862―1935) ^[11] , was married to Anna Julia Melania (1864―45), the daughter of industrialist Ludwik Grohman ^[12] ;
• Leopold (1866―1873);
• Emil Eugeniusz (1870―1923);
• Felix Emile Carol (1874―1882).

• 1870: Order of the White Eagle ^[1]
• 1876: Warsaw Gold Medal
• 1878: Grand Gold Medal at the World Exhibition in Paris
• Order of St. Stanislav I and II degree

The film of the Polish director Andrzej Wajda " Promised Land " was shot in the palace Scheubler. Now it houses the cinema museum of the National Film School in Lodz ^[4] .

Karl Scheubler is a prototype of the German industrialist Heinz Hunzt’s character of the Ashkenazi Brothers novel, Isroel-Yeshua Singer .

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  "Red House" in Monshau , the ancestral home of the Sheiblers family

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  Sheyblera plant in Lodz, the end of the XIX century

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  Chapel and the Mausoleum of Scheubler at the Protestant cemetery in Lodz

• Palace Sheyblera in Lodz (Polish)
• Kinomuzeum.pl : photos of the interiors of the palace Sheyblera