Friedrich Grillo

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Friedrich Grillo

Henrich Friedrich Theodor Ernst Grillo , or Fritz Grillo for short , (* December 20, 1825 in Essen , † April 16, 1888 in Ludenberg near Düsseldorf ) was a German entrepreneur and industrialist who significantly shaped the development of the Ruhr area in the early days .

origin

The Grillos were probably Waldensians from Sonders in the Veltlin , who had been asked to settle in some German states - especially Brandenburg-Prussia under the Great Elector . Because after the Thirty Years War , many German states were so depopulated that the income of the princes was low. Therefore, some princes tried to increase their population through religious refugees such as Huguenots , Waldensians and Jews (→ Peuplication ). The new settlers were given rights or privileges, particularly for economic activity, which the local population, some of whom still lived in serfdom and did not enjoy freedom of movement , did not have. Their special rights enabled the new settlers to achieve a level of prosperity that the old subjects could not attain. It could have played a role that the great elector himself, unlike his Lutheran subjects, was a Calvinist .

Life

Grillo was born as the son of a merchant family in Essen in their house at Viehofer Straße 10/12. He took over his father's company. His father was Wilhelm Grillo , his mother Gertrud a born Funke. The father died just two years after Friedrich was born. His mother married a second time in 1829 and died ten years later. His older brother was Wilhelm Theodor Grillo , with whom he worked on various occasions.

After finishing high school, Friedrich Grillo began a commercial apprenticeship in Bruges , which is now a district of Lüdenscheid. He went to Mainz as a merchant's assistant and then did military service. In 1848 Grillo took over his father's iron trade, which had been continued by his stepfather. In 1850 Grillo married Wilhelmine von Born. The marriage remained childless. His wife was the daughter of Theodor von Born, who was an official in the Essen Mining Authority and who was involved in several suspicions . He introduced Grillo to leading figures in the mining industry.

Grillo participated in various collieries and gained increasing influence. In 1854 he was given a seat on the supervisory board of the newly founded Bochumer Verein , in 1855 co-founder and member of the mine board of the Neu-Essen mining company . In 1855 Grillo looked around in the then small village of Schalke with 300 inhabitants. Grillo buys land there and the coal fields below. In 1862 he amalgamates these under the name Consolidation. In 1864 he had the first shaft sunk in the middle of the forest. The center of the city of Schalke will later be built at this point. In 1872 he founded the Schalker Eisenhütte Maschinenfabrik GmbH and in 1873 the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG , which included deeper but more productive seams in the coal mining industry for the first time.

Together with smaller private banks from Cologne and Berlin , Grillo established the stock corporation as a typical corporate form in the Ruhr area and deepened the connection between banks and the economy. In 1871 he co-founded the Essen Credit Institute together with Ludwig von Born . Grillo was one of the most influential people in the Ruhr area of ​​his time, the importance of food in the Ruhr area goes back to his work. Shortly before his death, he donated his fortune to the construction of the Essen city theater that bears his name.

Grillo died in the provincial sanatorium and nursing home in Ludenberg (today a district of Düsseldorf ) after being admitted there because of a nervous problem. He was buried on April 19, 1888 in the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor in Essen. After its abandonment in 1955, Grillo was reburied in Essen's Ostfriedhof , where the family grave still exists today.

Honor and memory

Friedrich Grillo and his widow Wilhelmine Grillo born. von Born (1829–1904) donated the costs for the property and two thirds of the construction costs of the Essen city theater, which opened in 1892, from their assets. The theater was later also called the Grillo Theater . The marriage was childless. The family home was on today's Kettwiger Strasse opposite the Johanneskirche .

In addition, Grillostraße in the north of Essen bears his name, as does the street of the same name in the southern part of Gelsenkirchen's Schalke district. In addition, in 1937 the former municipal high school in Gelsenkirchen was renamed Grillo-Gymnasium .

The pits of the Monopol colliery in Kamen , sunk in 1873, also bore the name "Grillo".

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Grillo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ a b RuhrRevue: How the Grillo brothers made history. January 1, 2009, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Erwin Dickhoff (ed.): Essen heads. Essen 1986, p. 76 f.
  3. ↑ The funeral of Friedrich Grillo. In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung of April 20, 1888
  • List of ancestors and descendants of Grillo based on the married couple Wilhelm Theodor Grillo (1819–1889) and Catharina Kolkmann (1820–1895). Lineage of the Grillo family from Sonders in Veltlin. Duisburg 1954–1955.
personal data
SURNAME Grillo, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grillo, Fritz (nickname); Grillo, Heinrich Friedrich Theodor Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1888
Place of death Dusseldorf