Adalbert Colsman (entrepreneur, 1886)

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Adalbert Colsman 1886-1988

Adalbert Colsman (born June 9, 1886 in Langenberg ; † April 1, 1978 there ) was a German entrepreneur and art patron .

Life

Adalbert Colsman was the youngest child of the entrepreneur Hermann Colsman. In 1912 he started the business of the traditional silk weaving mill Conze & Colsman in Langenberg. In 1915 he became managing director , in 1958 he moved to the advisory board as managing partner.

He was active in numerous business associations and supervisory boards. In 1947 he became a member of the executive committee of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry , and later became vice-president. In 1946 Colsman was a co-founder of the Association of Industrial Business Associations , which later became the Federation of German Industries (BDI); he participated in the establishment of the “Kulturkreis” foundation in the BDI.

In 1945 he was appointed the first post-war mayor of the city of Langenberg by the US occupation forces and held this office until 1946.

In 1955, Federal President Theodor Heuss honored him with the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Adalbert Colsman's older sister Gertrud was the wife of the Hagen art collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus , through whom he became acquainted with modern art at an early age and was part of artistic circles. He was friends with artists like Emil Nolde or Christian Rohlfs and became an art patron and sponsor of the Folkwang Museum in Essen. From 1922 to 1978 he represented the Osthaus heirs on the board of trustees of the Folkwang Museum and from 1937 to 1959 he was chairman of the museum association. In 1964 he and his wife founded the Adalbert and Thilda Colsman Foundation for Art and Culture.

literature

  • Folkwang-Museumsverein e. V. (Hrsg.): Collector diligence and foundation will. 90 years of the Folkwang Museum Association. 90 years of the Folkwang Museum. Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-601-8 , pp. 58, 64, 74, 78, 95, 115, 121, 123–125, 128, 130 f., 146–159, 190, 197 f., 201 f., 207, 211 f., 220, 225, 230, 233, 238, 242, 245, 248 f., 255, 264-268, 270 f., 275 f., 360, 422, 426, 441.
  • Carola Groppe: The spirit of entrepreneurship. An educational and social history. The Colsman family of silk manufacturers 1649–1840. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-11004-3 , p. 539 (also habilitation thesis, Ruhr University Bochum, 2002/2003)
  • Kulturstiftung der Länder in connection with the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen (publisher): Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen; Letters to Karl Ernst Osthaus. Hagen 2000. ISSN  0941-7036 , pp. 7-18.
  • Julius von Felbert (Ed.) Villas in Langenberg. Velbert 2013, ISBN 978-3-9813898-5-2 , pp. 17, 104-107, 133.
  • Volker Spiegelberg, Joachim Stahl: Festschrift on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the launch of the cruiser Ingorata on June 1, 1929. (= Historical Ship Monographs , Volume 2.) Schiffahrtsgeschichtliche Gesellschaft Ostsee e. V., Rostock 2004, DNB 971308004 , p. 24 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Wruck: Adalbert Colsman 1886–1978. His life and work. Langenberg 2003. (private print)
  2. ↑ Peter Andreas, Volkmar Wittmütz (ed.): Langenberger traces reading. Portraits from three centuries 1638–1895. Velbert 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813898-0-7 , p. 146.
  3. ↑ Herta Hesse-Frielinghaus et al. (Ed.): Karl Ernst Osthaus. Life and work. Bongers, Recklinghausen 1971, ISBN 3-7647-0223-0 , p. 35 ff.
  4. ↑ Folkwang-Museumsverein e. V. (Hrsg.): Collector diligence and foundation will. 90 years of the Folkwang Museum Association. 90 years of the Folkwang Museum. Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-601-8 , p. 422, p. 426.
personal data
SURNAME Colsman, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and patron of the arts
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenberg (Rhineland)
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1978
Place of death Langenberg (Rhineland)