Carl Delius (entrepreneur)
Carl Delius the Younger (born July 21, 1846 in Imgenbroich , † August 26, 1914 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German entrepreneur in the textile industry and a politician .
Life
Delius was the son of the cloth manufacturer Carl Delius , founder of the C. Delius cloth factory in Aachen . He became a partner in his father's cloth factory and in 1906 a partner in the newly founded Kammgarnwerke AG in Eupen . From 1896 until his death he was President of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce . By marrying into the iron industrialist family Hoesch , he became deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the family company of the same name, Hoesch AG . Through many offices and activities he was a leader in Aachen's economic life.
Delius was a city councilor , a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament and from 1909 until his death a member of the Prussian manor house .
Delius held the honorary title of a secret commercial councilor and in 1907 received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Aachen (as Dr.-Ing.Eh., later also as Dr. phil.hc) From 1901 to 1914 he was chairman of the board of the Evangelical Hospital Association in Aachen, the sponsor of the Aachen Luisenhospital .
On January 28, 1872, he became member No. 552 in Club Aachener Casino . From 1913 he was senator of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science .
In 1888, Delius commissioned the renowned Aachen architect Georg Frentzen to design an “exposed residential building”. After a construction period of more than two years, the "Villa Delius" on Friedlandstrasse, the construction costs of which amounted to around 350,000 marks , could be moved into by the family in May 1891.
Delius married on July 8, 1878 in Düren Adele Hoesch (1853–1920), daughter of the secret councilor Leopold Hoesch (1820–1899, iron industrialist in Düren) and his wife and cousin Maria Sybilla Hoesch (1823–1872), daughter of Leopold's uncle Eberhard Hoesch . Carl Delius found his final resting place in Westfriedhof I in Aachen.
literature
- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.), Reinhold Zilch (Ed.): Acta Borussica , Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , Volume 10 (1909–1918). Georg Olms Verlag / Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 3-487-11004-0 or ISBN 3-487-11007-5 , page 373.
Web links
- Cloth factory Nellssen at www.rheinische-industriekultur.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann , Dominik Groß, Georg Mölich (eds.): History of science in the Rhineland. (= Studies of the Aachen Competence Center for the History of Science , Volume 2.) University Press, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89958-407-3 , page 176.
- ^ Association of German Scientific Corporations (Hrsg.): German Biographical Yearbook. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1925, page 279. ( limited preview on Google Books )
- ^ Eduard Arens: History of the Club Aachener Casino. Founded December 9, 1805 . Aachen 1937. ( limited preview on Google Books )
- ^ Walter Holzhausen , Jochen Richard: The Südstrasse and the Reumont district. History and stories. Aachen 2007, page 84. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) - During During the occupation by Belgian troops after the First World War , the villa served the respective city commanders and was not released again until November 30, 1929.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delius, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Delius, Carl the Younger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur in the textile industry and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Imgenbroich |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1914 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |