Emil Weyerbusch
Emil Hermann Weyerbusch (born November 12, 1846 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ); † January 9, 1909 in Gardone Riviera ) was a German industrialist, patron and member of the Prussian House of Representatives .
Life
Weyerbusch, son of the Elberfeld merchant Carl Abraham Weyerbusch (1815–1880) and his wife Maria Elenore Schmidt (1813–1850), learned the trade of merchant in Paris and London . In 1869 he joined his father's company, which specialized in the manufacture of buttons.
On July 18, 1870, he married Mathilde Freiin von der Heydt (1850–1889), daughter of the banker August Freiherr von der Heydt (1825–1867), but the marriage remained childless. After the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871, Weyerbusch's business prospered; he now employed around 600 workers in his factory. Mathilde von der Heydt died in 1889 while on a business trip, far from home in Bombay . On March 11, 1891, Weyerbusch married Emilie Juliane Frowein (1860–1933), the young widow of Lieutenant Paul von der Heydt.
Weyerbusch, who was Elberfeld's city councilor and represented his hometown in the Prussian House of Representatives, also devoted himself to charitable projects. For more than a decade he was President of the Diakonie Elberfeld and a member of the presbytery of the Reformed Community of Elberfeld. Weyerbusch was Rittmeister of the Reserve of the Prussian Hussar Regiment No. 15 . He was also a passionate collector of Chinese porcelain . He later bequeathed his collection to the city of Elberfeld. In 1898 he had a lookout tower built on the summit of the Nützenberg , which bears his name.
In 1902 Weyerbusch had a villa built in Birnbach , the village of his ancestors, in which he spent the weekends with his second wife. After Weyerbusch's death, the house was bequeathed to the city of Elberfeld, which used it as a recreation center for teachers and civil servants for a decade before it was sold to an industrialist from Bonn in 1920. Weyerbusch also showed himself to be a generous donor in the land of his ancestors; with his financial support, the Protestant community of Birnbach was able to build a parish hall and have the old, partly dilapidated Romanesque basilica of Birnbach repaired.
Weyerbusch's last years were marked by illness and suffering. He died in 1909 while taking a spa stay on Lake Garda .
Individual evidence
- ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 414 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)
literature
- Erwin Katzwinkel: Emil Weyerbusch - a benefactor of the homeland of his ancestors. In: Local calendar of the Altenkirchen district 1967, p. 28f., Altenkirchen 1966.
- Walter Marenbach: Who was Emil Weyerbusch ?. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 1993, pp. 288–290, Altenkirchen 1992.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weyerbusch, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weyerbusch, Emil Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant, manufacturer and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1909 |
| Place of death | Gardone Riviera |