Christine Englerth

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Christine Englerth

Christine Englerth , b. Wültgens (* 14. August 1767 in Rath in Dusseldorf , † 4. May 1838 in Eschweiler ) was a German entrepreneur as owner of coal - mines in Aachen coal district , which later became the Eschweiler mine association (EBV) emerged.

Life

Christine Englerth, one of the three daughters of the mining entrepreneur Johann Peter Wältgens , married Captain Carl Englerth from the Electoral Palatinate , who was stationed in Jülich . After his retirement from military service, the family moved to Eschweiler. After the death of her husband in 1814, after she had resigned her siblings, she took over the sole management of the entire paternal mine property, expanded his concessions and had her coal mines expanded. On April 1, 1832, a civil society was founded for the construction of a mining facility for the Atsch mine and its widely spread lending shares , and Christine Englerth with 62/72 and blacksmith Johann Rüben with 10/72 were their owners. In September 1834 a new setting was made to 9/10 or 1/10. In the end it came into the sole ownership of the entire Eschweiler and Weisweiler Kohlberg and the manorial art that had only been leased until then .

On August 2, 1834, she signed a contract with her ten children, which founded the EBV as the first Prussian and German mining company . The contract divided EBV's ownership into 200 shares and only came into effect after her death. In this way she prevented her life's work from being split up. “You have courage, Mevrouw Englerth!” The Eschweiler notary Kaspar Friedrich Voßen is said to have told her. In 1838 she died of a stroke without having given an authentic declaration of execution of the contract. On May 19, two weeks later, the first general assembly of the EBV took place under the chairmanship of their eldest son Wilhelm and with the participation of all children and heirs.

At this first general assembly, the Board of Directors, whose third eldest son Friedrich was elected President, took the following minutes:

“Christine Englerth set the whole province in admiration for her qualities and imposed on us, the heirs of the fruits of their industry, the sacred duty to follow their example in order to further develop a work that one of the first needs of the country, work for a thousand families and bread and grant us a prosperity that we want to enjoy gratefully, benevolently and diligently. Unity is our watchword! Then the greeting "Glück auf" will keep its happy fulfillment. "

The Englerth family consisted of twelve children entitled to inherit. They each received two shares as an inheritance, and the remaining shares were sold to shareholders or strangers.

In Alsdorf , Aldenhoven , Baesweiler , Eschweiler , Herzogenrath and Recklinghausen there are streets named after Christine Englerth.

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SURNAME Englerth, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Owner of hard coal mines in the Aachen area, Eschweiler
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1838
Place of death Eschweiler