Arnold Kock

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Arnold Caspar Joseph Kock (born July 17, 1822 in Metelen ; † December 27, 1879 in Borghorst ) was a German entrepreneur and founder of Arnold Kock Textil GmbH .

Life

Family and education

Arnold Kock was the eldest child of the Metelen merchant and linen dealer Engelbert Kock (1788–1836) and his wife Maria Catherina, b. Voss (1797-1835). His grandparents Caspar Kock (1742–1804) and Catharina, b. Schillring (1751–1817) had an extensive linen trade in Metelen , trading shops and, since 1810, a thriving blue dyeing factory on the Vechte . His mother died in 1835 after giving birth to their youngest child, and his father died of typhus a year later. In 1836, the then fourteen-year-old orphan Arnold Kock and his five younger siblings came to his uncle Bernhard Joseph Kock (1779-1859), who had founded the first nettle weaving mill in Borghorst in 1825, was considered the most important linen maker and was the largest property and trade tax payer, but not his own Had children. His uncle gave him and his siblings a good education and employed him in his factories. In 1850 he married Elise Wattendorff (1822–1890), a sister of the Borghorster textile entrepreneur Joseph Wattendorff , with whom he had seven children.

In 1856, based on the English model, a sizing shop was built in Borghorst, including a flour mill to deliver the sizing material, in order to avoid the high import duties for the sizing English yarn. The builders and operators were Joh. Heinrich Brader from Zwischenahn near Oldenburg and his brother-in-law Joh. Heinrich Rabe, who had acquired their practical knowledge in England. In 1857 they founded the company "Rabe, Brader and Co." with the Borghorster linen and nettle publishers Wattendorff, Kock and Hageböck as partners, which also started a mechanical spinning mill with 16,000 spindles and in 1860 a mechanical weaving mill.

Takeover and further development of the Kock company

The preserved factory chimney of the BWS in Borghorst (2011)

In 1859, Arnold Kock, together with his brother Franz and Werner Frieling, took over the factories and holdings of their deceased uncle Bernard Joseph Kock.

In 1861 the families Hageböck, Kock and Wattendorf separated from the company “Rabe, Brader and Co”. out. The brothers Arnold and Franz founded together with their brother-in-law Joseph Wattendorff and the second wife of their uncle, Elisabeth Messing, the “ Borghorster Warps-Spinnerei Kock und Comp. "(BWS). "Warp" is the English name for warp yarn. The company started with 4,000 spindles and expanded rapidly: by 1880 it was already working with 24,000 spindles and in 1905 with 40,000 spindles.

In 1865, Kock and his partners founded the “A.Kock, Frieling and Wattendorff” weaving mill in Nordkirchen .

In 1875, after the deaths of both owners, he bought the weaving mill "Brinkhaus und Wischebrink", which had 33 employees, and formed the company " Arnold Kock Textil GmbH " in Borghorst.

Aftermath

After his death, Arnold Kock Textil GmbH was continued by his three sons Eduard Kock (1856–1926), Arnold Kock (1859–1906) and Franz Kock (1864–1922).

In 2002 the company achieved sales of EUR 54 million with around 130 employees. In February 2003 it had to file for bankruptcy and was then taken over by the Daun Group .

In 2008, after the building was demolished, the chimney of the disused Borghorster Warps spinning mill was blown up. The areas were extensively renovated by the Steinfurt district and the NRW contaminated site remediation association (AAV).

literature

  • Karl Bartmann: On the history of the Bartmann family from Herbern Wuppertal 1992
  • Hans-Jürgen Warnecke: The company foundings of the Kock family , in: Borghoster Heimatblätter, year 1964, issue 3/4
  • Hans-Jürgen Warnecke: The historical development of the Borghoster textile industry , in: Westfälische Nachrichten No. 115, Borghorst May 17, 1968
  • Hans-Jürgen Warnecke: From home weaving to the textile industry in: 1000 years of Borghorst, publ. by Wilhelm Kohl, pp. 77-89, Borghorst 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the Steinfurt district of October 28, 2008 (Kirsten Weßling)
personal data
SURNAME Kock, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kock, Arnold Caspar Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Metelen
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1879
Place of death Borghorst