Christoph Friedrich Heinzelmann
Christoph Friedrich Heinzelmann d. Ä. (Born January 16, 1786 in Kaufbeuren ; † March 8, 1847 ibid) was a German businessman , member of the Bavarian state parliament and founder of the textile industry in Kaufbeuren.
Life
Christoph Friedrich is the son of the businessman and senator Christian Gottlieb Heinzelmann and his wife Maria Elisabeth Heinzelmann. He came from the Heinzelmann family of industrialists .
Christoph Friedrich Heinzelmann initially worked in the family business of the Heinzelmann brothers. Heinzelmann, who was interested in literature, was elected in 1825 as one of four members of the Upper Danube District in the Bavarian state parliament , which had only existed since 1819 . Heinzelmann proved to be a liberal there and made himself unpopular with the monarchy with objections to the “too high civil list ” of the Bavarian king . In addition, he is committed to a reform of customs laws and freedom of the press .
In 1832, at the celebrations for the anniversary of the Bavarian constitution in Augsburg, organized by the Liberal MPs around Georg Miltenberg , he was presented with an honorary goblet for the following services, among other things: "For the strong words with which he expressed himself in the assembly for freedom of the press, to stimulate trade and to protect a badly oppressed class of Bavarian citizens ... “. His commitment “against the lottery plague” and for mixed confessional marriages is also documented. In 1837 he received a silver cup “as a worthy representative of the people and courageous defender of the constitution”.
Spinning and weaving
Under the impression of the increasing strength of the cotton industry, especially in England , Christoph Friedrich Heinzelmann decided to build a textile factory in Kaufbeuren, where only Allgäu flax and linen had been processed up to now . He won the Kaufbeurer textile company “Wagenseil und Schrader”, whose owner families also belonged to the Kaufbeurer bourgeoisie , and the Kaufbeurer Christoph Daniel Walch the Elder. J. as a partner. The financing was taken over by the Kemptene Bankhaus Opitz, to whose owner Leonhard Friedrich Schachenmayr the Heinzelmann family was often related. On June 23, 1839, the foundation stone for the still-preserved factories of the spinning and weaving company under CF Heinzelmann in Kaufbeuren was laid in front of the city gates. In the summer of 1840, American raw cotton was first processed into yarn . The company existed until 2005, when it went into bankruptcy as "Spinnerei und Weberei Momm". The listed buildings have been preserved.
In 1843 Heinzelmann was appointed a member of the newly founded Chamber of Commerce for Swabia and Neuburg in Augsburg . In 1843 he founded a “Spar-Cassa” for his factory workers.
literature
- Walter Pache: Christoph Friedrich Heinzelmann - 1786–1847 - citizen, entrepreneur, politician . In: Swabian Research Association at the Commission for Bavarian State History - Life Pictures from Bavarian Swabia. Volume 14. Edited by Wolfgang Haberl, Druckerei & Verlag Steinmeier, Deiningen 1993, ISBN 3-87437-311-8
Web links
- Heinzelmann, Christoph Friedrich in the German biography
- Christoph Friedrich Heinzelmann in the Kaufbeurer city portal
- 225th birthday of Christoph Friedrich Heinzelmann d. Ä. (PDF; 421 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Josef Leeb: Suffrage and elections to the Second Chamber of the Bavarian Standeversammlung in Vormarz (1818–1845): 2 part volume, Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996, p. 760
- ^ Frank Möller: Bürgerliche Herrschaft in Augsburg 1790-1880, Oldenbourg Verlag, 1998, p. 265
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinzelmann, Christoph Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman, member of the Bavarian state parliament and founder of the textile industry in Kaufbeuren |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1786 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaufbeuren |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1847 |
| Place of death | Kaufbeuren |