Claus Mosler

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Nikolaus Gerhard "Claus" Mosler (born July 2, 1913 in Cologne ; † January 13, 1999 there ) was a German banker , entrepreneur, real estate agent and high-level volunteer for various companies.

origin

Claus Mosler was the descendant of two respected Cologne families in the 19th century. His grandfather, the Royal Prussian court confectioner Anton Mosler (1834–1888) was the third generation to run a pastry shop in Cologne. In 1861 he married Anna Pallenberg (1836-1894), a daughter of the founder of the furniture factory Heinrich Pallenberg , Johann Heinrich Pallenberg (1802-1884). His father, Gerhard Mosler (1867–1949), worked alongside his uncle Jakob Pallenberg (1831–1900) as a manufacturer in the Germany-wide company for interior furnishings, which also operated as a supplier to the Royal Prussian court. When the members of the Pallenberg family sold their company shares at the beginning of the 20th century, Gerhard Mosler also withdrew from business life. One of his brothers was the painter Heinrich Mosler-Pallenberg (1863-1893), about whom Claus Mosler co-edited a publication in 1994. The painter and sculptor Franz Pallenberg (1873–1949), who worked in Rome and was a son-in-law of Arnold Böcklin , was a cousin of his father. Claus Mosler was married to Ursula Mosler, b. Freudenberg (1923-1998).

Career

After attending high school and completing a commercial apprenticeship, Claus Mosler initially worked for many years at the private bank Sal. Oppenheim in Cologne before he transferred to ID Herstatt when it was rebuilt (1955) and was appointed one of the directors. Already in 1971 he left Herstatt and until 1983 was the owner of the company founded by Albert Wolter , the "Albert Wolter Immobilien KG", which he established as a personally liable partner through the "Albert Wolter Verwaltungsungs- which he set up in 1971 for this purpose. Gesellschaft mbH "controlled.

Honorary positions

Claus Mosler performed numerous voluntary tasks. As a co-founder of the Overstolzengesellschaft , he was its treasurer since it began in 1963. The society has committed itself to promoting the Museum of Applied Art , of which his great-uncle Jakob Pallenberg was one of the well-known donors. Furthermore, Mosler chaired the Friedrich-Carl-Heimann-Gesellschaft from 1988 to 1996 and was Chancellor of the Exchequer and family member of the lay branch of the Teutonic Order from 1947 to 1986 . Claus Mosler was also treasurer of the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Catholic University in Córdoba (Argentina), which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1990, and of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs . In Cologne he also chaired the “Friends of Cologne Monument Preservation” and was one of the founders of the Cologne City Museum . In 2001, the documents collected by Claus Mosler on the history of the Pallenberg family were handed over to the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv (RWWA) foundation .

Honors

Fonts

  • The regiment “Hoch- und Deutschmeister”. In: Jubilee Festschrift 800 Years of the German Order 1190-1990. Deutsches-Museum eV (= Yearbook No. 1) Bad Mergentheim 1990.
  • with Pauline Countess Spee: Heinrich Mosler-Pallenberg. 1863 Cologne – Vienna 1893. A fin de siècle painter from Cologne . Graphic management of Fränkische Nachrichten, Tauberbischofsheim 1994.

literature

  • Ulrich S. Soénius (Hrsg.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Hrsg.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 376.
  • Robert Steimel (arrangement): Versippt with Cologne. (= Rhenish sexes. Volume 1) Steimel-Verlag, Cologne-Zollstock 1955, plate 126 (Mosler), 143 (Pallenberg)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Steimel (ed.): ID Herstatt. The old and the new banking house. JP Bachem Verlag , 2nd edition, Cologne 1967, without ISBN, p. 65.
  2. ↑ http://freunde-ksm.de/stiftertafel
  3. ↑ RWWA inventory Mosler ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ihk-koeln.de
personal data
SURNAME Mosler, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mosler, Nikolaus Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1999
Place of death Cologne