Carl Rudolf Poensgen

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Carl Rudolf Poensgen

Carl Rudolf Poensgen (born March 27, 1863 in Düsseldorf , † March 2, 1946 in Düsseldorf) was a German industrialist and royal. Prussia. Commerce Council . He comes from the widespread Eifel entrepreneur family Poensgen , who have operated iron works in the Schleiden area as Reidemeister since the middle of the 15th century . Some lines have moved to Düsseldorf and were instrumental in building up the Rhenish iron, steel and pipe industry.

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Carl Rudolf Poensgen was the son of Rudolf Poensgen and Friederike Poensgen (1834-1909) from another branch of the family and the uncle of Harald Arthur Poensgen . From 1880 to 1882 he studied metallurgy at RWTH Aachen University . There he joined the Academic Association of Chemists and Metallurgists , later the Corps Montania Aachen. He later studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and in 1885 became a member of the Corps Franconia Karlsruhe . He completed his military career as a captain . His father Rudolf Poensgen and his brother Gustav Poensgen owned a steel and rolling mill inherited from their father Reinhard Poensgen , which they moved from Gemünd to Düsseldorf in 1860 . The company became in 1872 with a tube rolling mill of their distant cousin Albert Poensgen, also located in Düsseldorf in 1860, to form the “ Düsseldorfer Röhren- und Eisenwalzwerke AG ”. Poensgen “, united. With the death of his father, Carl Rudolf Poensgen was appointed to the board of this large company as a co-owner. He was also chairman of the mine board of the " Zeche Unser Fritz ". In 1910 he became a member of the supervisory board of " Phoenix AG for mining and smelting ". The "Phönix AG" in turn merged with the Thyssen Group , the Rheinische Stahlwerke and a number of large mining companies in the mining group " Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG " in 1926 . Carl Rudolf Poensgen was also a member of the supervisory board of Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG, the Reisholz AG paper mill and the “Industrieterrains Düsseldorf-Reisholz AG zu Düsseldorf-Benrath ”.

In 1901 Carl Rudolf Poensgen received the honorary title Klg. Prussia. Commerce Council; it was followed in 1911 by the title Kgl. Prussia. Secret Commerce Council. In 1903, together with other entrepreneurs, he founded the “Employers' Association for Düsseldorf-Oberbilk and the Surrounding Area”, which set itself the goal of improving “local employment conditions” (where the “Düsseldorfer Röhren- und Eisenwalzwerke AG, formerly Poensgen” were located). Carl Rudolf Poensgen had been a member since 1898, Deputy President from 1905 and President of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1908 to 1933 . During this time he made a special contribution to the " GeSoLei " exhibition for health care, social welfare and physical exercise that was held in 1926 and was extremely successful with over 7.5 million visitors . He was also a member of the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris and the Court of Honor of the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange . From 1904 to 1910 he was a city councilor for the Liberal Party of Düsseldorf.

As President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Carl Rudolf Poensgen resigned after 25 years of presidency in 1933 under pressure from the National Socialists . On March 28, 1933, NSDAP commissioners and the SA occupied the IHK office and asked him to make a declaration on the same day before the general assembly that the IHK was ready to “participate in the major tasks that Chancellor Hitler had to do recorded in his government program ”. Carl Rudolf Poensgen refused to explain. On April 12, 1933, he resigned after the General Assembly had previously named him Honorary President. In 1956, on the occasion of its 125th anniversary, the Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry founded the “ C. Rudolf Poensgen Foundation eV for the Promotion of Managers ”. This merged in 1988 as the CR Poensgen Foundation with the “ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Personalführung e. V. ". The "Karl-Rudolf-Strasse" named after him in Düsseldorf still reminds of Carl Rudolf Poensgen today.

family

Jägerhofstrasse 7

Carl Rudolf Poensgen was married to Klara Jaeger (1870–1918), daughter of the entrepreneur Wilhelm Jaeger (1839–1898) and a member of the executive board of the " Richard-Wagner-Verband Düsseldorf" , a community for the promotion of young artists and Richard's music Wagner's and to support the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation in Bayreuth . Together they had five children: Rudolf Alfred (* 1891), Gerda Clara (* 1893), Herbert (* 1899), Heinz (* 1901) and Irmgard (* 1903).

At the end of the 19th century, the manufacturer had the Berlin architects Kayser & Großheim build a house for the family at Jägerhofstrasse 7. The utility rooms were housed on the ground floor, at sidewalk level. The first floor contained living rooms and lounges, the second floor a bedroom and children's room. Emma, ​​the widow of Eduard Poensgen, who was also born Poensgen, lived in the neighboring house No. 8. For a time the residence of the family of Carl Rudolf Poensgen was in Ratinger " Poensgenpark ", which his cousin Carl Poensgen had designed in 1907 as a splendid landscape park based on the English model.

literature

  • Lutz Hatzfeld:  Poensgen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 567 ( digitized version ).
  • Edmund Strutz (Ed.): German Gender Book , Volume 123, p. 337, 1958, Verlag CA Starke, Glücksburg, Ostsee.
  • Josef Wilden: Five Poensgen create a new Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, 1942
  • Heinrich Kellerter, Ernst Poensgen: The history of the Poensgen family ; Ed .: A. Bagel-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1908
  • Horst A. Wessel: The entrepreneurs of the Poensgen family in the Eifel and in Düsseldorf , in: Bewegen -verbindungen-Gestalten, entrepreneurs from the 17th to the 20th century , writings on the Rhenish-Westphalian economic history, Volume 44, Foundation Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Cologne, Cologne 2003
  • 175 years IHK Düsseldorf - acting for companies, publications on Rhenish-Westphalian economic history , special volume, Foundation Rhenish-Westphalian Economic Archives in Cologne, pp. 27, 28, Cologne 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corps list of Franconia Karlsruhe 1839–1929 , No. 305
  2. ↑ CR Poensgen house in Düsseldorf; built by Kayser & von Grossheim, architects in Berlin , in: Architektonische Rundschau , 1899
  3. ^ Poensgen, Carl Rudolf, factory owner, Jägerhofstr. 7 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf for 1900, p. 341
personal data
SURNAME Poensgen, Carl Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Prussian Commerzienrat
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1946
Place of death Dusseldorf