Emil Guilleaume

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Emil Guilleaume (born February 1, 1846 in Engelskirchen , † April 21, 1913 in Cologne ) was a German wire rope and cable manufacturer.

Life

Guilleaume burial site

Emil Guilleaume was born on February 1, 1846 in Engelskirchen as the son of the Cologne merchant Bonaventura Guilleaume (1811–1857) and his wife Amalie Kotz (1815–1873) into the Guilleaume family. The father Bonaventura Guilleaume was also a landowner and postman in Engelskirchen. He was the son of the tax inspector and landowner Hermann Joseph Guilleaume (1778-1856) and his wife Karoline Schniewind. The mother Amalie Kotz was a daughter of Heinrich Kotz and his wife Katharina Heuser.

In 1874 Emil Guilleaume married in Dormagen Eleonore Roffers (1855-1921), a daughter of the Dormagen notary Viktor Roffers (1814-1871) and his wife Antoinette Guilleaume.

Emil Guilleaume died in 1913 at the age of 67. The couple's grave is located in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 5 in P). The portrait relief on the grave stele was made by Wilhelm Albermann .

Act

At the age of eleven, Guilleaume came to his Catholic relatives in Cologne as a half-orphan and was brought up together with their children. In 1863 he started his commercial and technical training at Felten & Guilleaume (1863–1866). After spending a year in the military, he gained extensive specialist knowledge in the manufacture and processing of cast steel wires and ropes on extensive domestic and international trips, especially to France and England . He brought this knowledge, in particular the patenting taken over from England , to the Carlswerk in Mülheim / Rhein, which he co-founded in 1874 , and he played a major role in the operational development and expansion of the company. The company's iron and steel operations were his main area of ​​activity, but he also made a significant contribution to the company's German and international cable business. After the conversion of the Carlswerk into an AG (1900) he became 1st general director. He was a co-founder and member of the supervisory board of the Eastern European, German-Atlantic, German-South American and German-Dutch telegraph companies, which were based in Cologne.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 183.
personal data
SURNAME Guilleaume, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, wire rope and cable industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Engelskirchen
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1913
Place of death Cologne