Carl David Weber
Carl David Weber (born April 17, 1824 in Bielefeld , † July 21, 1907 in Oerlinghausen ) was a German textile entrepreneur .
Life
Weber came from the Bielefeld commercial matriculation. He was the brother of the lawyer Max Weber senior and thus the uncle of the sociologist Max Weber . At the same time he was the grandfather of the women's rights activist Marianne Weber (née Schnitger).
He did an apprenticeship in a Bremen trading company and later became a co-owner of the Weber, Laer & Niermann family business . At times he also worked for the company in Spain . He was refused re-entry to Prussia some time later. There are different statements about the reasons. One version assumes that his failure to surrender to the Prussian military in 1849 was the reason. Other information suggests that Weber gave up his Prussian citizenship when he left for Spain.
Instead he moved to the Principality of Lippe . In Oerlinghausen he founded the company Carl Weber & Co in 1850 . To do this, he bought a building on Detmolder Strasse, built in 1838. In contrast to the transition to mechanical linen production in Bielefeld, for example, Weber stuck to the publishing system . This linen business soon surpassed the family business in Bielefeld in importance, it became one of the largest fine linen manufacturers in Germany. At that time there was a large number of cheap labor in Lippe, thousands of whom were employed in Weber's publishing system. With that he introduced the line weaving mill in Oerlinghausen. Weber said that the handmade linen was of higher quality than the factory linen and that there was therefore still a market for it. He no longer obtained the yarns from the region, he got the best yarn from Ireland . The fabrics treated in Bielefelder Bleiche were then processed into high-quality products such as tablecloths, bed linen and the like, and a considerable part of them were exported to America. Until the end, Weber resisted the introduction of a mechanical weaving mill. The grandchildren Georg and Richard Müller opened one in 1902.
In his work, Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber describes his uncle as an example of the type of capitalist entrepreneur, despite his adherence to the publishing system.
Carl David Weber strongly promoted the development of Oerlinghausen, he donated a hospital and in 1890 the construction of the synagogue. In 1900 he played a leading role in founding an electricity company.
literature
- Horst Baier u. a. (Ed.): Max Weber Complete Edition . Department II. Letters Vol. 8 . Tübingen, 2003 p. 865
- Markus Ringhofer: The proud weavers from Bielefeld and Oerlinghausen . Norderstedt, 2007
- Guenther Roth : Max Weber's German-English family history 1800–1950 with letters and documents . Tübingen, 2001 p. 252ff
- Marianne Weber : Memoirs . Hildesheim, 2004 p. 7f.
Others
The former home of Carl Weber, the Villa Weber , is an official wedding venue of the Oerlinghausen registry office .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ history. Carl Weber & Co. GmbH, accessed on May 24, 2015 .
- ^ Getting married in Oerlinghausen. (PDF (0.2 MB)) (No longer available online.) City of Oerlinghausen, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on May 24, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Carl David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German textile entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielefeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1907 |
| Place of death | Oerlinghausen |