Arnold of Guilleaume
Arnold Karl Hubert von Guilleaume (born July 15, 1868 in Cologne , † May 21, 1939 in Ulm ad Donau) was a German entrepreneur .
Life
Arnold von Guilleaume was born on July 15, 1868 in Cologne as the son of the hemp rope, wire rope and cable industrialist Franz Carl Guilleaume (1834-1887) and his wife Antoinette Gründgens (1837-1922, aunt of Gustaf Gründgens ).
In 1896 he married Elisabeth "Ella" Deichmann (1875–1972), daughter of the Cologne banker Otto Deichmann (1838–1911) and his wife Auguste Meurer in Gudenau . This marriage had five sons and one daughter.
Arnold von Guilleaume died on May 21, 1939 in Ulm. The widow Ella died at the age of 97 in 1972.
Act
In 1889 Guilleaume joined Felten & Guilleaume as a trainee , "Mechanical Hemp and Tow Spinning, Twine and Rope Factory Cologne", and in 1894, after working abroad, took over this business from his father's company. With the establishment of branches in Deichhausen / Weser (1895), in Lauenburg / Elbe (1899) and in Dillingen an der Donau (1900) and through technical expansion of the operations, he brought the company to a leading position in Germany and abroad.
In Cologne, Guilleaume sat on the supervisory board of the Gerling Group founded by Robert Gerling in 1904 .
From 1906 to 1908 he had the manor Schloss Ernich built in Remagen, and in 1916/17 he acquired the adjacent Villa Haus Herresberg .
Awards
- 1904: Large Prussian state medal for commercial achievements in gold
- 1904: Prussian nobility title
literature
- Franz Brill: Guilleaume, Arnold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 298 ( digitized version ).
See also
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guilleaume, Arnold von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guilleaume, Arnold Karl Hubert von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1939 |
| Place of death | Ulm |