Anton Cloppenburg

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Anton Sebastiaan Maria Cloppenburg (born May 6, 1886 in Rotterdam ; † March 15, 1967 in Wassenaar ) was a Dutch-German textile merchant and founder of Peek & Cloppenburg (Hamburg) .

origin

His German father, Heinrich Anton Adolph Cloppenburg (1844–1922), who came from Altenoythe , moved to the Netherlands around 1867 and founded a clothing store Peek & Cloppenburg together with Johann Theodor Peek (1845–1907) in 1869 . The family were so-called Tödden . The male members first sold textiles on the streets in Holland (like the Brenninkmeijer family from C&A ). Anton was the youngest of seven siblings, his mother Willemina Maria, geb. Williams Phillips (1850–1887) died when Anton was a baby. In the following year his father married again, his stepmother became Johanna Antonia, geb. Zwijsen (1851-1928).

Entrepreneur

In 1911, he and his brother-in-law Paul Schröder founded the company Peek & Cloppenburg (Hamburg) as a business partner , which opened a men's textile department store in Hamburg in 1912. The name "Peek & Cloppenburg" was identical to that of the parents' company Peek & Cloppenburg (Düsseldorf) , which was now run by his brother James Cloppenburg (1877–1926). Since then there have been two companies with this name. In 1928 the two companies jointly founded the men's clothing factory Beha GmbH , which existed until 1945. In 1937, the previously exclusive men's range was expanded to include departments for women's and girls' clothing.

Anton Cloppenburg's son Fritz HM Cloppenburg (1914–2003) took over the management as a personally liable partner from 1939. His grandson James Cloppenburg was a managing partner from the end of the 1970s, and since 2015 he has retired from the management.

family

In 1912 Anton Cloppenburg married Josepha Maria Johanna Schröder (1885–1969), the daughter of Fritz Schröder (1849–1921).

With her he had seven children, five of whom reached adulthood, and at least ten grandchildren.

  • Olga Maria Josepha L., b. Cloppenburg (1913–1992), 2 children
  • Paul Anton Marie Cloppenburg (1914–1995), childless
  • Fritz HM Cloppenburg (1914–2003), at least 1 son James
  • Ernst Joseph Maria Cloppenburg (1916–1925), died as a child
  • Josepha Maria Cloppenburg (1918–1920), died as a child
  • Veronica Martha Maria (Vera) M., b. Cloppenburg (1922–1994), 4 children
  • Hans PM Cloppenburg (1924–1992), 3 children

Anton Cloppenburg died on March 15, 1967 after a long illness and was buried in his homeland in Wassenaar (Netherlands).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The history of the Peek restaurant in Grönheim
  2. ^ Cloppenburg, Hinrich Anton Adolph at the Oldenburg Society for Family Studies
  3. ↑ Not Jacket Like Hose Manager-Magazin February 2, 2005
  4. ^ Anton Sebastiaan Maria Cloppenburg on www.genealogieonline.nl, accessed on December 17, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Cloppenburg, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cloppenburg, Anton Sebastiaan Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-German textile merchant and founder of Peek & Cloppenburg (Hamburg)
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1967
Place of death Wassenaar