Carl Boeninger
Carl Friedrich Böninger (born April 19, 1795 in Duisburg ; † July 16, 1877 there ) was a German entrepreneur in the tobacco industry .
Life
Carl Friedrich Böninger was the son of the Duisburg tobacco manufacturer and grocer Conrad Arnold Böninger and his wife Katharina Elisabeth Böninger born. Castanjen.
Both parents were children of large Duisburg entrepreneur families. For centuries, the Böninger family was one of the economic prominence of the city of Duisburg.
Böninger's great-grandfather Peter Böninger founded a grocery store in the first third of the 17th century, which was continuously passed on from father to son until the 20th century and which developed into one of the most important tobacco processing companies in West Germany. He married Maria Merrem in 1822. The couple had a total of nine children. Carl Böninger was a member of the Duisburg Freemason Lodge Zur Deutschen Burg .
The entrepreneur
Despite major business losses as a result of the Napoleonic Wars and the continental blockade , he was able to rebuild the company after the death of his father in 1825 by taking over the management.
In the 1820s he promoted the connection of the city of Duisburg to the Rhine , which the Prussian government had already considered necessary in the middle of the 18th century .
The old trading town of Duisburg was cut off from the Rhine in 1000 by a catastrophic flood of the Rhine. The Rhine found its new river bed about 3 km from the city. Plans to build a ship canal from the Rhine to the city were discussed in 1802 and 1803, but under the long-lasting French occupation, the plans were not carried out.
During the occupation and the continental blockade, shipping and the economy in the Rhineland came to a standstill in 1810 , and only the Prussian President Ludwig von Vincke revived trade. It was not until the 1820s that the Duisburg merchants succeeded in establishing a joint stock company and the associated raising of capital. The connection between the Rhine and the city was realized between 1828 and 1832 by building a canal. Böninger also campaigned for the connection between the Ruhr and the city. As a progressive-thinking entrepreneur, he also advocated the connection of Duisburg to the railway network of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company .
Carl Friedrich Böninger was President of the Duisburg Chamber of Commerce from 1835 to 1851 .
The own tobacco company expanded worldwide at that time. Böninger founded a branch in Amsterdam and bought his own ships. With these ships he transported both tobacco and later emigrants to the USA. He built up new sales markets in America. He later expanded his ventures to Java and Australia.
The entrepreneur also participated in the emerging iron industry in the mid-19th century. In 1852 he was one of the founders of the Niederrheinische Hütte in Duisburg.
Carl Friedrich Böninger died on July 16, 1877 in Duisburg. The family business continued into the 1970s.
literature
- Walter Ring: Böninger, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 403 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Napoleonic era - biographies
- ↑ The Freemasons in Duisburg. In: Rheinische Post . June 13, 2016 ( rp-online.de ), accessed on June 13, 2016.
- ↑ With tobacco to wealth and fame
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böninger, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Böninger, Carl Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur in the tobacco industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1877 |
| Place of death | Duisburg |