Aletta Haniel
Aletta Haniel (born Noot ; born March 12, 1742 in Orsoy , today Rheinberg ; † May 11, 1815 in Ruhrort , today Duisburg ) was a German entrepreneur and mother of Franz Haniel .
person
Aletta Noot was the second of nine children of the customs inspector Jan Willem Noot and his wife Catharina, née Erckenswick.
Two years after her birth, the family moved to Ruhrort. Aletta grew up here. She spent two years in a Dutch boarding school where she learned the French language. On November 17, 1761 , Aletta Noot married the Duisburg merchant Jacob Wilhelm Haniel . In their 21-year marriage, she gave birth to eleven children, only four of whom reached adulthood. The Haniel family lived in Duisburg for eleven years. In 1772 she moved to Ruhrort with her eight-year-old son Wilhelm , where Jacob Haniel took over the father-in-law's packing house.
Aletta Haniel died on May 11, 1815 in the Ruhrort packing house of "exhaustion". She was 73 years old.
As an entrepreneur
After her husband's death in 1782, Aletta Haniel ran the wine trade and general forwarding and commission trading under the company name JW Haniel seel. Wittib continues.
She was initially supported by her younger brother Samuel (1756-1828). From 1790 son Wilhelm and from 1796 sons Gerhard and Franz worked in the mother's shop.
In 1790 the company JW Haniel seel took over. Wittib, which was represented by Wilhelm Haniel, sold coal for the company JG Müser & Comp. Aletta's brother Diederich Walter and his son Peter Heinrich were also involved.
In 1792 Aletta took over the transport of iron goods from the St. Antony ironworks near Osterfeld on commission for a Rotterdam trading company. Up until 1795, business with the neighboring huts Neu-Essen and Gute Hoffnung were added.
The change in her business activity is also reflected in the fact that she was considered a “wine merchant” until the mid-1790s, while afterwards her business was usually referred to as a “ freight forwarder ” with reference to hardware .
In 1796 Aletta Haniel became a partner in the coal trading company JG Müser & Comp. She continued to be responsible for coal sales. With the hardware and coal business, Aletta Haniel opened up new trade routes to the west.
She sold iron goods and increasingly also coal in the Netherlands in particular. As a representative of their company in the company with Müser, son Gerhard appeared from 1796.
In 1800 Aletta Haniel bought the Ruhrort packing house from her siblings. In the same year, by writing to the Prussian king , she managed, against the resistance of the long-established Ruhrort coal traders, to get a place to store her hardware directly on the Ruhr. In 1802, at the age of 60, Aletta Haniel made her sons Gerhard and Franz partners in her company. Finally, in 1809, after 27 years as a businesswoman, she retired. The company JW Haniel seel. Wittib went out and was divided between her sons Gerhard and Franz.
Others
During the Seven Years' War she helped her father, who fled from being held hostage by France, to return freely. The sixteen-year-old negotiated with the Commander-in-Chief of the French Army on the Rhine, Marshal Marquis de Contades , who asked for a kiss in return. Aletta complied with this request and achieved her goal.
Today a comprehensive school in Duisburg is named after her.
literature
- Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH (Ed.): “Haniel 1756 - 2006 - A Chronicle in Data and Facts”. Duisburg 2006.
Web links
- Biography in the portal Rheinische Geschichte
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haniel, Aletta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Noot, Aletta (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1742 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orsoy , Lower Rhine |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1815 |
| Place of death | Ruhrort , today Duisburg |