Ferdinand Bernard Bartmann
| Bartmann & Co.
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| legal form | Limited partnership |
| founding | 1881 |
| resolution | 1899 |
| Seat | Norbertstrasse 40, Cologne |
| management | Ferdinand Bernard Bartmann |
| Branch | Textile trade , commission business |
Ferdinand Bernard Bartmann (born October 25, 1854 in Burgsteinfurt ; † January 12, 1939 in Meran ) was a German entrepreneur .
Life
Bernard Bartmann was the first child from the marriage of the tanner and leather merchant Goswin Bartmann with his third wife Luise, nee. Dallmöller. His father died when he was 5 years old. From 1867–1871 he visited the Arnoldinum in Burgsteinfurt and left with the " one year old ". He then completed an apprenticeship as a tanner, acquired basic business knowledge and spent two years in Manchester , where he got to know the emerging textile industry. In 1877 he was drafted into Münster for one year of military service.
In 1881 he married Franziska Wattendorff, daughter of the Borghorst textile manufacturer Joseph Wattendorff , with whom he had a daughter and six sons between 1882 and 1898, including Josef Bartmann , Ferdinand Bartmann and Heinrich Bartmann . He moved to Aachen with his wife and opened an " agency and commission business " there, which dealt with the international trade of luxury goods such as the export of French silk , English cotton fabrics and Russian whalebone to the USA. In 1885 he moved his residence and business to Cologne and expanded the company with his half-brother Joseph Bartmann, who emigrated to the USA in 1871. It was now called " Bartmann & Co " and had branches in Cologne, Antwerp , Manchester and New York . In 1887 he had a representative three-story house built in the style of the Dutch neo-renaissance in Cologne's Neustadt-Süd , Beethovenstrasse 13, at the corner of Engelbertstrasse .
After the US business had become more difficult due to the increase in protective tariffs as a result of the Tariff Act of 1890 introduced by William McKinley , Bartmann turned to production for the domestic market. In 1899 he joined the Borghorster Warps spinning mill , in which his in-laws were involved, as a personally liable partner , and moved to Münster . He was largely responsible for the reconstruction of the facilities of the former spinning and weaving mill " Rabe, Brader & Co. " on Gantenstrasse in Borghorst, which had been destroyed by a major fire in 1907, and expanded them into the new company headquarters according to the most modern aspects.
In 1912 Bartmann acquired the bankrupt company “May-GmbH” in Beeck near Wegberg , district of Erkelenz , and founded the cotton spinning mill “ Bartmann & Sohn GmbH ” together with his son Josef, the Reichstag member Carl Herold and two other partners . In 1914 the daughter Margarethe Herold's son Dr. jur. Ferdinand Herold. Bartmann managed the company until 1938. His son Josef was co-managing director until 1920 and then his son-in-law Ferdinand until 1935.
literature
- Karl Bartmann : On the history of the Bartmann family from Herbern. Wuppertal 1992
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joanne Reitano: The Tariff Question in the Gilded Age: The Great Debate of 1888, The Pennsylvania State University 1994.
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| SURNAME | Bartmann, Ferdinand Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burgsteinfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1939 |
| Place of death | Meran |