Arthur Lossow

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Arthur Emil Lossow (born October 30, 1849 in Glauchau ; † October 31, 1943 ibid) was a German businessman and textile entrepreneur and as such a co-founder of the United Glanzstoff-Fabriken AG . For his services to the development of the textile industry in Saxony and his civic engagement in Glauchau, he was awarded the title of Kommerzienrat by the Saxon King Friedrich August in 1904 and the Albrecht Order on the occasion of the King's birthday in May 1911 . The villa he built and inhabited by his son Emil is a unique example of historicism and a cultural monument in Glauchau . Until his death he lived in the villa built by his father-in-law Gustav Ramminger and later a listed villa, today Paul-Geipel-Straße 4. His tomb in the cemetery in Glauchau is a listed building.

Life

Arthur Lossow was the second of four children of the businessman Emil Lossow and his wife Marie Emilie Albertine Lossow nee Walther. Arthur's younger brothers were William Lossow and Max Lossow . After attending the community and secondary schools in his hometown, he switched to the Annenschule in Dresden in 1863 and then from 1865 to 1868 the commercial school in Leipzig .

After a short period in his father's company, he went to Reims for further training in the Marteau frères company with Charles Marteau, the father of the future violinist and composer Henri Marteau . After participating in the Franco-Prussian War , he returned to the family business, where he became an authorized signatory and, in 1876, a partner in the Lossow brothers' company.

From September 1899 to June 1931, Lossow was also a co-founder and representative of the United Glanzstoff-Fabriken AG founded in Aachen in 1899 . The Saxon Group led by him , which contributed 200,000 marks to the founding, was included in the founding consortium because from the beginning it was important to establish a connection with the local textile industry.

In 1904 Arthur Lossow was awarded the title of Kommerzienrat. In the 1900s he was also a commercial judge of the Chamber of Commerce Chemnitz operates. He was also socially committed in Glauchau and donated, among other things, the existing Lossow Foundation for the support of women. As a patron he supported the painter Erich Fraaß, who was born in Glauchau .

Lossow's villa in Glauchau

During the First World War, he tried, among other things, to get the imprisoned violinist Henri Marteau released , whose father he knew personally from his time in Reims.

In Glauchau he had his brother William Lossow and Max Hans Kühne built the Lossow'sche Villa at Clementinenstrasse 8 in 1916/17 .

He was a member of the German and Austrian Alpine Club .

Arthur Lossow's tomb in the Glauchau cemetery on Lichtensteiner Strasse has been preserved to this day. It is listed as a heritage burial of the Emil Lossow family, Grabfeld I.7 .

family

Lossow had been married to Julie Therese Ramminger since May 6, 1873, the daughter of the co-founder of the Lorenz & Ramminger dye works, Gustav Adolf Ramminger.

literature

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C Woodings (ed.): Regenerated Cellulose Fibers , 2001 page 94.
  2. ^ Cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony - monument document. Retrieved July 2019 (German).
  3. ^ United Glanzstoff-Fabriken AG. In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien . Volume 7, p. 81.
  4. ↑ On the history of synthetic fibers. The special archive of the German economy, Hoppenstedt and Co. Berlin, 1949, p. 166.
  5. ↑ z. B. Annual reports of the Chemnitz Chamber of Commerce 1901, 1904 and 1907.
  6. ↑ Lossow, Arthur. In: The worker friend. 38 (1900), p. 90.
  7. ^ Official announcements of the city of Glauchau
  8. ^ The AG Zeitzeugen reports: On the outbreak of war in 1914. In. StadtKurier Glauchau 22/2014.
  9. ^ Journal of the German and Austrian Alpine Club. 12 (1881), p. 36.
  10. ↑ Tombs remind of former celebrities
  11. ↑ Ranking list of the Royal Saxon Army for 1902. 1902, p. 424.
  12. ^ Textile Art and Industry , Volume 5, 1911, p. 267.
personal data
SURNAME Lossow, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lossow, Arthur Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German councilor, businessman and textile entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Glauchau
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1943
Place of death Glauchau