Engels (industrial family)
Engels is the name of a German family dynasty of industrialists from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, which was considered one of the most influential and wealthy industrial families in what is now the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , especially after the Ermen & Engels cotton spinning mill was founded in 1837 .
History of the family business in Barmen
Family history
The Engels family is an old Rhenish Protestant bourgeois family, whose most successful branches settled in Barmen , today in Wuppertal , Mönchengladbach , Wickrath and in Düsseldorf . The most famous member of this family was the philosopher , journalist , manufacturer and reformer Friedrich Engels , who, together with Karl Marx, developed the social and economic theory now known as Marxism . Over the centuries, the family became related and networked with other industrial families through marriage, some members married into the nobility . The manufacturer Hermann Engels (1822–1905) married into the Croon industrialist family from Mönchengladbach; Cecile Blank-Engels (1855–1928) married the carpet and furniture manufacturer Carl Vorwerk , the founder of the Vorwerk company ; Emil Engels (1828–1884) married into the Bredt family and therefore married Wilhelm August Bredt and the silk weaver family Von der Leyen ; Hedwig Engels, married. Boelling (1830-1904) was the relative of Friedrich von Eynern ; the sister Anna Engels (1825-1853) and Elise Engels (1834-1912) both married the factory owner Adolf von Griesheim ; Pauline Elisabeth Engels (1874–1959) married the manor owner Kurt Baron von Dyhrn from Silesia , later Dresden ; Paula Engels (1837–1919) married Baron Albert von Oppenheim , co-owner of the Sal. Oppenheim bank .
The descendants of the Engels family include Jörg , Erich and Jens Mittelsten Scheid .
The most important family members
- Johann Caspar Engels (1715–1787), employed edger, longette and lace weaver locally, working from home
- Johann Caspar Engels (1753–1821), manufacturer and wholesaler
- August Engels (1797–1874), manufacturer, politician and member of the Prussian mansion , son of the previous one
- Friedrich Engels (1796–1860), founder of the family business "Ermen & Engels" , together with the Manchester- based manufacturer Peter Albertus Ermen, brother of the previous one
- Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), philosopher, social theorist, historian, journalist and communist revolutionary, son of the previous one
literature
- Engels, from Barmen-Elberfeld . In: German gender book . Volume 24 (First Bergischer Volume) Görlitz 1913, pp. 50–93
- 400 years of Engel's clan history. 190 years of bleaching and textile industry in the Engels family. 1837-1937 . Ermen & Engels. n.d. 1937
- Michael Knieriem : The development of the Caspar Engels Sons company. At the same time a contribution to the social environment of the young angel . 1978, ISBN 3-8130-0012-5 . ( News from the Engels House 1)
- Michael Knieriem: The “Ermen & Engels” company in Manchester and Engelskirchen in the 19th century . In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 10, Berlin 1986, pp. 211-234.
- Michael Knieriem: The company archive of Ermen and Engels in Engelskirchen in the 18th and 19th centuries . In: Year of the IMSF 12. Frankfurt am Main 1987, pp. 322–328.
- Michael Knieriem: “Profit under God's blessing”. A contribution to the company history and business situation by Friedrich Engels. From the archive of the Ermen & Engels company in Engelskirchen . Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1988 (news from Engels House 5)
Web links
- HISTORY OF THE COTTON SPINNING MILL ERMEN & ENGELS ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Knieriem: The company "Ermen & Engels" in Manchester and Engelskirchen in the 19th century . P. 218.