Franz Carl Nellessen
Franz Carl Nellessen (born January 29, 1752 in Aachen ; † July 14, 1819 there ) was a German cloth manufacturer and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .
Live and act
The son of the cloth maker and citizen captain Johann Matthias Nellessen (1726–1781) and Anna Maria Schmitz (* 1722) belonged to one of the best known families of cloth makers in Aachen. His grandfather Franz already owned a cloth factory, which he moved from Burtscheid to Aachen to Mörgensgasse (today Mörgensstraße) in 1737 and became a member of the Wollenambacht, the cloth makers' guild . Franz Carl finally took over the cloth factory and traded it under the name " Carl Nellessen, JM Sohn ". In the council and state calendar of 1791 he is mentioned as "a merchant trading in Spanish shawls ". His cloth factory later achieved a notable level of notoriety when its employees played a key role in the Aachen uprising on August 30, 1830 .
A few years earlier, Nellessen had already been elected to the council of the Free Imperial City of Aachen for his guild and held the office of governing mayor together with the mayor of the lay judges , Johann Jakob von Wylre , in 1788/1799 . This was also the time of the final climax of the Aachener Mäkelei and together with Wylre Nellessen belonged to the "old party", which had thrown the reformers of the "new party" from the council by imperial decree.
After the French invaded from 1792 and finally from 1794, Carl Franz Nellessen gained a high reputation among the occupiers with his cloth manufacture and in 1804 was one of the founders and members of the executive committee of the " chambre consultative des manufactures, fabriques, arts et métiers " initiated by Napoléon , from which the Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry later developed. In addition, he was one of the first members of the Aachener Casino Club , which was founded in 1805 and later headed by his son Heinrich for one and his son Theodor for several electoral terms as president.
family
Franz Carl Nellessen was married to Rosalie Theyssen (1765-1840), with whom he had three daughters and four sons. One of the daughters, Karoline Aloisia Kornelia Katharina Nellessen (1787–1861) became the grandmother of the later art historian Stephan Beissel . The four sons, Heinrich (1789–1866), Carl (1799–1871), Theodor (1802–1888) and Franz (1805–1862) all joined the management of the father's company as partners.
Carl von Nellessen , who was also the mayor of Aachen for many years, was ennobled by the four brothers in 1856 and raised to the Prussian baron status in 1852 . He was the founder of the Nellessen Majorat on Gut Schönthal and the adjacent "Nellessen Park". The theologian and advocate of ultramontanism , Leonhard Aloys Joseph Nellessen (1783–1859), was a common cousin of the siblings.
Franz Carl Nellessen found his final resting place in the family crypt in the Aachen Ostfriedhof , in which, with the exception of Carl von Nellessen, his sons and their families are also buried.
literature
- Eduard Arens / Wilhelm Leopold Janssen : Club Aachener Casino Druck Metz, Aachen 1964, p. 123
Web links
- Walter Buschmann: Cloth factory Nellessen , on Rhenish industrial culture
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the historical address book 1858
- ↑ Entry in the historical address book 1858
- ↑ Entry in the historical address book 1858
- ↑ Entry in the historical address book 1858
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nellessen, Franz Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cloth manufacturer and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1752 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1819 |
| Place of death | Aachen |