Christoph Biederlack

Johann Christoph Biederlack

Johann Christoph Biederlack (born November 30, 1773 in Greven ; † May 2, 1854 there ) was a German businessman and politician.

Life

Biederlack was the son of the businessman Hermann Anton Biederlack († 1789) and Marie Elisabeth Frye (1753–1781). After the father's death, his uncle Johann Henrich Freye, a soap manufacturer, became his guardian. From 1791 to 1796 he did a commercial apprenticeship with the mayor's widow A. Vüllers in Paderborn (“woven goods of all kinds and spices”). He continued his education and mastered the Dutch, French and English languages. After he came of age, he took over his parents' wholesale company. This was made easier because the businessman Johann Heinrich Striethorst, a relative of Biederlack, from Rheine made capital of 20,000 Reichstalers (which represented 80% of the company's total capital) available to him as a silent partner in October 1897. The core of the business was the wholesale of colonial goods and linen , which the company obtained from the Dutch and northern German ports and sold to 350 to 400 customers in the Münsterland . The young businessman was successful. In the first three and a quarter years, profits of 9,000 Reichstaler were reported.

The continental barrier made the colonial goods business difficult. Johann Christoph Biederlack then founded the weaving mill "Biederlack, Mülder & Co." in Emsdetten together with his brother-in-law Franz Mülder in November 1811 . His sons Johann Friedrich and Franz Anton later took over the business, the latter was later involved in the founding of the Greven Cotton Spinning Mill (GBS), in which his son Fritz Biederlack also played a major role.

In 1822 Biederlack was a member of the shop stewards commission for the introduction of the provincial estates in Berlin. From 1826 to 1841 he was a member of the state parishes in the electoral district of East Münster for the district of Münster in the provincial parliament of the province of Westphalia . From 1831 to 1854 he was one of the three directors of the Provincial Relief Fund.

In 1832 he received the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class. In 1837 he was appointed to the Commerce Council.

family

On November 17th, 1798 he married Maria Gertrudis Biedenharn from Neuenkirchen, Osnabrück district , daughter of a successful wholesaler. The couple had u. a. the following children:

1. Katharina (1802–1875), ∞ Ludwig Terfloth
2. Marie Kath. Wilhelmine (1809–1883), ∞ Anton Arckenoe
3. Franz (1814–1883), ∞ Elisabeth Martina Schründer
4. Hermann (1817–1909), ∞ Jeanette Böttrich
5. Agnes (1819–1891), ∞ Anton Niehaus

literature

• Peter Voss: Johann Christoph Biederlack (1773-1854). A Greven merchant in the process of industrialization; in: Anja Victorine Hartmann (Ed.): Elites around 1800: Horizons of experience, behavior, possibilities for action, 2000, ISBN 3805326696 , pp. 35–53.
• Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 184.
• Wilhelm Schulte: Westphalian heads: 300 life pictures of important Westphalians: biogr. Handweiser, 2nd edition, 1977, ISBN 9783402057001
• From day laborer to manufacturer; in: Westfälische Nachrichten of July 24, 2008, online
• The company's files are in the Greven City Archives, Deposit 86, Biederlack Archives, signature: StaG Dep. 86, online