De Fries (family)

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The de Fries family was an entrepreneurial family in Düsseldorf that belonged to the socially and politically influential property bourgeoisie of the city.

family members

Wilhelm de Fries

Wilhelm de Fries

Wilhelm de Fries (born February 11, 1856 in Orsoy ; † February 21, 1919 in Düsseldorf) was married to Thekla de Fries, b. Berthold (born September 26, 1861 in Erlau, † September 2, 1912 in Düsseldorf). He was born in Orsoy on the Lower Rhine as the son of a coal merchant. He attended elementary school and did an apprenticeship with a Duisburg mechanic. De Fries initially worked for the Magdeburg-based machine builder Ernst Schieß and later at Losenhausen 's hoist and transport plant factory.

In August 1891 Wilhelm de Fries founded the company de Fries & Co. in Düsseldorf together with his brother Heinrich and Anton Röper . In 1896 he founded the Benrather Maschinenfabrik AG de Fries & Co. in Düsseldorf-Benrath with the help of Hermann August Flender . Products were hoists, overhead cranes, wagons and gantry cranes for ports. At the end of the 19th century, the company produced electrically powered locomotives and charging devices that were used in mining. The overall perspective of the factory shows a three-aisled, 13 m high assembly hall and the four 7 m high halls for the iron foundry. The factory later belonged to Deutsche Maschinenfabrik AG (DEMAG) as "Werk Benrath" .

Conrad Matschoss characterizes Wilhelm de Fries as follows:

“ Wilhelm de Fries was a staunch supporter of the new electrical development. Above all, he saw the great sales opportunities in front of him when, as a special characteristic, he gave his company the reputation of always being one step ahead of technical development, if possible. At that time he always advocated the demand to his friends, 'With the traveling crane, the trolley must be able to lift and drive at the same time and the crane must always be able to drive'. This instinctive sense of great development opportunities explains his great business successes. In addition, there was one's own firm belief in what who was saying. A rich imagination enabled him to keep bringing up new pages for the practicality and advantages of the designs he recommended. In addition, there was the great ability to treat people. He was a born sales engineer, for whom the fight and the orders became nervous tension [...] Wilhelm de Fries loved to delete the word “impossible” in his dealings with his customers. "

- The Benrather Maschinenfabrik Actiengesellschaft de Fries & Co. / The crane factory in Benrath / The hut office. In: Conrad Matschoss: A Century of German Mechanical Engineering. From the mechanical workshop to the German machine factory 1819-1919. 2nd expanded edition, Springer, Berlin 1922, pp. 185–208, on this pp. 189–190.

Wilhelm de Fries' house in Düsseldorf, Haroldstrasse 8, was built by the Düsseldorf architect Heinrich Salzmann , who also built the works in Heerdt, with a remarkable interior design: "The entrance on the mezzanine floor gave the opportunity to create an attractive design for the reception room."

  • de Fries & Co. A.-G., interior view of the assembly hall

  • de Fries & Co. A.-G., overall perspective

  • Wilhelm de Fries' home in Düsseldorf, Haroldstrasse 8

  • Wilhelm de Fries' home, reception room

Heinrich de Fries

Heinrich de Fries (?)

Heinrich de Fries († 1909) co-founded the Düsseldorf company de Fries & Co. together with his brother Wilhelm in 1891. After Wilhelm founded the Benrather Maschinenfabrik GmbH in 1896 , Heinrich ran the company de Fries & Co. together with Anton Röper . in Düsseldorf. On January 9, 1904, Heinrich de Fries had Heinrich de Fries GmbH entered in the commercial register as a sales company of de Fries & Co. AG, lifting equipment factory in Düsseldorf-Heerdt . The company was also founded by de Fries together with Anton Röper. De Fries "[...] hardly thought that 50 years later this company would carry the quality name HADEF all over the world" After Heinrich's death Wilhelm Pützer took over the management of the company. In 1912 Wilhelm Pützer took over the distribution of de Fries & Co. AG. He succeeded in making the HADEF quality mark (as an acronym for H einrich de F ries) "as a brand for progressive construction and high quality into a fixed term in hoist construction" . Wilhelm Pützer died in 1931. The heirs Wilhelm, Maria and Hans Pützer divided the two companies among themselves in the post-war period. The shareholders of Heinrich de Fries GmbH Hebezugfabrik were born in the 1950s Maria Uebel. Pützer and Hans Pützer, who also acted as managing directors .

  • Catalog edition A of Heinrich de Fries GmbH, 1905 (title page)

  • Catalog edition A of Heinrich de Fries GmbH, 1905 (preface)

  • Catalog edition A of Heinrich de Fries GmbH, 1905 (interior view of the Heerdt plant)

  • Catalog edition A of Heinrich de Fries GmbH, 1905 (offices and sample warehouse in Düsseldorf)

literature

  • Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf. History from the origins to the 20th century.
    • Volume 2: From the royal seat to the civil servant town (1614–1900). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-491-34222-8 .
    • Volume 3: The industrial and administrative city (20th century). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-491-34223-6 .
    • Volume 4: Timetable and Register. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-491-34224-4 .

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm de Fries  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf history from the origins to the 20th century. Volume 3: The industrial and administrative city (20th century). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-491-34223-6 , p. 559.
  2. ↑ registry office Central Dusseldorf 502/1919
  3. ↑ Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf history from the origins to the 20th century. Volume 2: From the royal seat to the civil servant town (1614–1900). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-491-34222-8 , p. 554, p. 562.
  4. ↑ Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf history from the origins to the 20th century. Volume 3: The industrial and administrative city (20th century). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-491-34223-6 , p. 199.
  5. ↑ History file city archive Düsseldorf (Film-No .: 7-4-0-10.0000)
  6. ↑ a b The Benrather Maschinenfabrik Actiengesellschaft de Fries & Co. / The crane factory in Benrath / The Hüttenbüro. In: Conrad Matschoss: A Century of German Mechanical Engineering. From the mechanical workshop to the German machine factory. 1819-1919. 2nd expanded edition, Springer, Berlin 1922, pp. 185–208, on this p. 186.
  7. ↑ Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf history from the origins to the 20th century. Volume 2: From the royal seat to the civil servant town (1614–1900). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-491-34222-8 , page 554, page 562.
  8. ↑ Scripta mercaturae, issues 1–2, 2005, pp. 86, 87, 92.
  9. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 553.
  10. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 380 (Figures 564–566), p. 384.
  11. ^ Hermann Rabitz (Ed.): Hebezeugfabrik Düsseldorf, 50 years. Solingen 1954, p. 1.
  12. ^ Hermann Rabitz (Ed.): Hebezeugfabrik Düsseldorf, 50 years. Solingen 1954, p. 3.