Christian Coupienne

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Christian Coupienne around 1845

Christian Gilbert Coupienne (born February 8, 1801 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † January 12, 1876 at Gut Haanenburg near Unkel ) was a German leather manufacturer,President of theChamber of Commerce and a member of the Prussian House of Representatives .

Live and act

Christian Coupienne was the eldest son of the tannery owner Jean Baptiste Coupienne (1768-1825) and his wife Caroline Pelzer (1777-1853). After running the tannery founded by his father for a few years , he became chairman of the Chamber of Commerce for the city and mayor of Mülheim an der Ruhr (1850–1853, 1854–1872). In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . From 1850 he was also Mülheim City Councilor and - in the successor to Hermann Heinrich von Eicken  - City Councilor. In 1856 he became First Alderman , an office he held until he left Mülheim.

Christian Coupienne was not only politically active at the municipal level. From 1862 to 1870 he sat as the elected representative of the Progressive Party for constituency 5 (Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen) in the Prussian House of Representatives in Berlin. There he was a member of the committee for trade and commerce and was mainly concerned with Prussian trade policy.

In 1872 he gave up all offices and retired to a previously acquired estate at Unkel am Rhein (Gut Haanenburg). Four years later he died single and childless on his property. In his will he ordered the establishment of an eponymous foundation . The Christian Coupienne Foundation granted dowry aid for young married couples from Mülheim an der Ruhr and supported pupils and students in need regardless of their origin or denomination.

literature

  • Ilse Barleben : Mülheim ad Ruhr. Contributions to its history from the city elevation to the founding years. City of Mülheim an der Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1959, pp. 391–403.
  • Bernhard Mann : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , pp. 352-353.
  • Thomas Urban: Immigrants with new ideas: The Coupienne family and the Mülheim leather trade. In: Horst A. Wessel (ed.): Mülheim entrepreneurs: pioneers of the economy. Business history in the city on the river since the end of the 18th century. Klartext, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-645-2 , pp. 79–87, here p. 83.

Archival material

  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1390/2/15 (Chronicle of the Coupienne family. Compiled by Ernst Coupienne, 1921.)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Coupienne, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coupienne, Christian Gilbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German leather manufacturer and member of the Prussian House of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1876
Place of death Gut Haanenburg near Unkel