Eugen von Waldthausen

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Eugen von Waldthausen (born May 8, 1855 in Essen ; † July 29, 1941 there ) was a German businessman, founder and politician .

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Honorary grave of Eugen and Agnes Waldthausen at the Bredeney cemetery in Essen

Eugen von Waldthausen, great cousin of the Kommerzienrat and entrepreneur Ernst von Waldthausen , was the son of the businessman Gustav Arnold von Waldthausen (1823–1909) and his wife Ottilia Luisa née van Beughem (1829–1900). He attended secondary school, the Humboldt Gymnasium at that time, from which today's Frida Levy comprehensive school emerged . In 1874 he reached the upper secondary level . After attending the commercial college in Lausanne , he completed commercial training in Cologne , Bremen , Le Havre and London . On November 24, 1883, he married Agnes Platzhoff (1861–1927) from Elberfeld in Wiesbaden .

In Bremen he worked for a cotton import company belonging to his family. In 1880 he joined the indigo import company in Essen, which his father had taken over, and which he managed as a partner from 1892, but gave it up in 1909 due to the technical upheaval in the chemical industry.

Waldthausen was a member of numerous supervisory boards, including Rheinische Stahlwerke , Deutsche Erdöl AG , Magdeburger Bergwerks-AG, Westfälisch-Anhaltische Sprengstoff AG and Nordstern-Versicherung .

He set up foundations for the Essen City Theater, later called the Grillo Theater , the hospitals and the Folkwang Museum . The foundations serving to promote the sense of art were brought together in 1934 under the name Eugen-und-Agnes-von-Waldthausen-Platzhoff-Museum-Foundation with headquarters in Essen.

Eugen von Waldthausen was a city ​​councilor in Essen from 1892 to 1919 . He was buried at the side of his wife Agnes in the Bredeney cemetery in Essen. The grave was declared a grave of honor by the city council of Essen on December 12, 2012.

literature

  • Fritz Pudor : Eugen von Waldthausen ; In: Necrologist from the Rheinisch-Westfälische industrial area, born 1939/1951, Düsseldorf 1955, p. 60.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1977.
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 355, 356 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b J. of Waldthausen, Stammtafeln the family of Waltenhausen, 1932, trunk panel 17; In: G. Dittrich / HF Friederichs, Deutsches Familienarchiv 29, 1965, p. 176
personal data
SURNAME Waldthausen, Eugen von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, city councilor
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1941
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