Bernhard Georg von Scheibler

Bernhard Georg von Scheibler

Bernhard Georg von Scheibler (born December 28, 1724 in Montjoie ; † May 6, 1786 ibid) was a German cloth manufacturer.

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The son of the Monschau cloth manufacturer Johann Heinrich Scheibler (1705–1765) and Maria Agnes Offermann, widowed Schloesser (1698–1765), like three of his younger brothers, was trained in the technical processes and administration of the cloth manufacture in his father's company. After completing his training, his father gave him the task of establishing branches in the towns of Hagen and Herdecke in what was then the county of Mark . These factories quickly gained an economically prestigious reputation and were of great importance both for the prosperity of the population and for job security. By royal decree of 1752, King Frederick the Great had the employees of these factories exempt from serving in the army so that they would not suffer any disadvantages from military service. A year later, Scheibler founded together with the French businessman Delamaison and members of the Harkort and Moll families of cloth manufacturers, a shop for Siamese . These were small-checked or colored striped apron fabrics and duvet covers made of cotton and viscose yarns, named after a Siamese trader who brought these goods to France in the second half of the 17th century. However, this business was not granted any long-term success and the "Siamoisen-Compagnie" dissolved again in 1756.

But since the guild rights also brought more and more restrictions in the production processes, Scheibler transferred his factories in Hagen and Herdecke to an administrator in the same year and at the beginning of the Seven Years War and returned to his father’s headquarters in Monschau, as it came from his Visibility in the guild-free Monschau had cheaper production and better planning. After the death of his father in 1765, Bernhard Georg took over the management of the Monschau cloth factory, the extensive expansion of which had meanwhile become necessary due to major orders from the entire Duchy of Jülich-Berg . But orders from numerous European countries as well as the courts in Paris and Vienna increased the importance of the Monschauer cloth.

In recognition of his entrepreneurial merits, Bernhard Georg Scheibler was raised to hereditary nobility on December 24, 1781 by the responsible Elector Karl Theodor zu Pfalz-Bayern as the first of the extensive Scheibler family of entrepreneurs with the right to use the title "noble" in his name. A few months later he was presented with a valuable medal with the bust of the elector and his wife.

family

Bernhard Georg Edler von Scheibler was married to Clara Maria Moll (1733–1802), daughter of a cloth manufacturer from Hagen, who bore him four daughters and four sons. The eldest son, Johann Christian Edler von Scheibler (1754–1787), also a cloth manufacturer, was additionally awarded the Austrian personal nobility in 1783 for his services. Johann Christian's son Bernhard Georg (1783–1860) was the first manufacturer to set up a mechanical wool spinning mill in Eupen in 1807 .

Bernhard Georg's second son Bernhard Paul (1758–1805), father of the later district administrator of the Eupen district Bernhard von Scheibler , remained active in the Monschau company. The third son, Karl Wilhelm von Scheibler (1772–1843) decided on a military career and made it to field marshal lieutenant and fortress commander of Legnano and Josefstadt , for which he was raised in 1814 to the baron status.

After all, it was up to the fourth son, Friedrich von Scheibler (1777–1824), to take over the no longer flourishing businesses in Hagen and Herdecke and later relocate it to Iserlohn in order to help cloth production there to a new heyday.

Literature and Sources

• Carl Johann Heinrich Scheibler: History and genealogy of the Scheibler family , Cologne, 1895 Digitized edition of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf
• Walter Scheibler : History and fate of a company in six generations (1724–1937) , Aachen, 1937
• Hans Carl Scheibler and Karl Wülfrath : West German pedigrees , Weimar 1939
• Elisabeth Nay-Scheibler: The history of the Scheibler family , in: Scheibler-Museum Rotes Haus Monschau Foundation (ed.), Cologne 1994,
• Josef Mangoldt: The rise and fall of the cloth industry in Monschau in the 18th and 19th centuries , in: Scheibler-Museum Rotes Haus Monschau Foundation , Cologne, 1994
• Landschaftsverband Rheinland: A society of migrants, small-scale migration and integration of textile workers in the Belgian-Dutch-German border region at the beginning of the 19th century , Transcriptverlag Bielefeld, 2008