Cornelius Heyl

Bust of Heyl in Heylshof Worms

Johann Cornelius Heyl (born February 29, 1792 in Worms ; † October 2, 1858 there ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur in the leather industry.

family

Cornelius Heyl came from the Wormser family Heyl . His father, Johann Cornelius Heyl (1758–1818), was a ship's man and merchant in Worms, his mother was Anna Elisabeth née Leutz (1768–1805).

Heyl, reformed denomination , married Wilhelmine Luise, born Martenstein in Worms in 1817 (born April 15, 1799 in Worms; † May 26, 1875 ibid), daughter of Daniel Martenstein (1771–1862) and Marie Apollonia Widt. The father was the owner of an oil mill, then an oil refinery and oil trade in Worms, the mother came from a Worms council family.

From the marriage emerged:

• Daniel Cornelius Friedrich (1818–1844), manufacturer
  • His son, the grandson of Cornelius Heyl's grandson, Cornelius Wilhelm von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (1843–1923), was known as an industrialist, politician, art collector and patron .
• Maria Barbara (1819-1865). In 1847 she married Johann August Schoen (1821–1856), factory owner, partner in the company C. Heyl and president of the Worms Chamber of Commerce . In 1859 she married his second brother, the painter Friedrich Wilhelm Schoen (1810–1868). From their first marriage came three sons, grandsons of Cornelius Heyl, among them
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Schoen (1849–1941), industrialist and patron
  • Wilhelm von Schoen (1851–1933), State Secretary of the Foreign Office and Ambassador .

Cornelius Heyl's brother, Leonhard Heyl (1789–1854), was a leather merchant in Worms.

• His son, Leonhard Heyl (1814–1877), Privy Councilor of Commerce, was a partner in the C. Heyl company and from 1856 president of the Worms Chamber of Commerce.

Life

From May 14, 1800, the new French administrative regulations of February 17 of the same year also applied in Worms, then part of France. The administrative structure of the city was changed accordingly. On December 1 and 31, 1800, 18 municipal councils were introduced, among them Cornelius Heyl, the merchant and brother-in-law of the future mayor Peter Joseph Valckenberg . This created the prerequisites for establishing a new leadership class in the city.

On April 18, 1805, Heyl acquired the ruins of the episcopal castle at the cathedral , including the court winery, the courtyard and the castle garden , as part of the French government's national property auction. He laid the foundation stone for Cornelius Heyl AG , a leather factory. In its heyday , up to 9000 people were employed in the leather industry in Worms , together with the Doerr & Reinhart leather works.

Cornelius Heyl died on October 2, 1858. In 1877 the leather workers who were employed in his factories created a bronze bust in his honor , which is now in the Heylshof in Worms . Cornelius-Heyl-Straße was named after him in Worms .

literature

• Wolfgang Bickel, Irene Spille: The Lederwerke Cornelius Heyl AG in Worms: Where there was once work. An obituary . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 1998. ISBN 978-3-88462-141-7
• Gerold Bönnen and Ferdinand Werner : The Worms industrial family von Heyl. Public and private work between the bourgeoisie and the nobility . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010. ISBN 978-3-88462-304-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Cornelius Heyl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Kunsthaus Heylshof
• Heyl, Johann Cornelius in the Hessian biography
• Early documents and newspaper articles on Cornelius Heyl AG in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Reuter: Worms between imperial city and industrial city 1800–1882 . Stadtarchiv , Worms 1993, p. 14 .
2. ↑ Memory of the leather industry in Worms - Wormser Zeitung. (No longer available online.) In: wormser-zeitung.de. Archived from the original on October 24, 2014 ; Retrieved October 24, 2014 . 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.  
3. ↑ Mathilde Grünewald : History of the city of Worms - Worms from the prehistoric era to the Carolingian era . Ed .: Gerold Bönnen . 2nd Edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 70 .