De Wendel
The de Wendel family is a large industrial family from Lorraine that has been active in industry since the 18th century.
The officer's son Jean-Martin de Wendel acquired the Seigneurie von Hayingen in the Duchy of Lorraine in 1704 . The family built their castle there and developed remarkable activities in the steel industry over generations .
Since 1901 the family was also active in mining and owned the De Wendel colliery in Herringen , whose shafts I and II were named after their founders Henri and Robert De Wendel. The mine was renamed Heinrich-Robert before the start of the Second World War . The company finally became the property of Ruhrkohle AG in 1969 .
After the Second World War, the various companies were merged into the Sollac and the Sidelor . During the steel crisis , they were later taken over by the French steel company Usinor- Sacilor, which was merged into the multinational Arcelor in 2002.
The de Wendel family owned a coal mine in the Lorraine coalfield near Kleinrosseln , which today still exists as the “Carreau Wendel” museum. The family also had a steel mill near Stieringen, which the place name Stiring-Wendel reminds of.
The family continues to do business, e.g. B. as shareholders in the listed investment company Wendel .
Family members
- François Ignace de Wendel (1741–1795)
- Henri de Wendel (1844–1906), entrepreneur and member of the Reichstag
- Charles de Wendel (1871–1931), entrepreneur and member of the Reichstag, nephew of Henri de Wendel
literature
- Harold James : Family Business in Europe. Haniel, Wendel and Falck. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53510-0 .
- Jacques Maas: A noble dynasty of smackmen from Lorraine. The Maîtres de Forges de Wendel and their social and economic network of relationships (18th – 20th centuries). In: Manfred Rasch , Peter K. Weber (Hrsg.): European nobility as entrepreneurs in the industrial age (= United Aristocratic Archives in the Rhineland eV writings. 5). Klartext Verlag, Essen 2017, ISBN 3-8375-1740-3 , pp. 89–113