Background
He was the son of Johann Arnold Halbach and in 1810, he founded a steel plant in the United States of America, to supply steel for the local manufacturers of gun barrels.
He was the son of Johann Arnold Halbach and in 1810, he founded a steel plant in the United States of America, to supply steel for the local manufacturers of gun barrels.
From 1828 to 1838, he was the Prussian consul in Philadelphia. Their daughter Matilde Halbach died at the age of 24. She was nevertheless a great-great-grandmother of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.