Friedrich von Scheibler

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Friedrich von Scheibler

Friedrich von Scheibler (born March 1, 1777 in Monschau ; † April 3, 1824 in Iserlohn ) was a German cloth manufacturer and Mayor of Iserlohn.

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The youngest son of the cloth manufacturer Bernhard Georg von Scheibler (1724–1786) and Clara Maria Moll (1733–1802) from Remscheid-Lennep , who was ennobled in 1781 , and the cousin of the Krefeld velvet manufacturer Johann Heinrich Scheibler, like the majority of his brothers and uncles, went through training Cloth merchants and cloth manufacturers. While most of these relatives from the Scheibler entrepreneurial family had also been active there since Friedrich's grandfather Johann Heinrich Scheibler moved to the Monschau and Eupen area , Friedrich's father Bernhard first turned to Hagen and later to Herdecke , where he founded his own businesses. After Bernhard von Scheibler, who had already given up his company in Hagen in 1765, later turned back to Monschau and Eupen, Friedrich took over his father's Herdeck company and relocated it to Iserlohn. The young Friedrich von Scheibler met Theodore Luise Rupe (1778–1853), the only daughter of the wealthy Iserlohn cloth merchant and manufacturer Johannes Rupe (1730–1787) through family and business ties between the family of his mother Clara Moll and the influential cloth manufacturer families Harkort and Rupe ). He married the sole heiress of the trading company " Johannes Rupe Wwe. & Co " in 1797. With this marriage, Friedrich von Scheibler also took over his wife's company and merged it with his own cloth factory. Thanks to his diverse trade contacts throughout the Rhineland and the associated economic upturn, from which the city of Iserlohn benefited particularly during the time of the French occupation, and because of his exemplary way of working, Scheibler was quickly accepted as a "newcomer" by the Iserlohn merchants, who also made him soon elected their spokesman. The trading company " Scheibler & Rupe " itself as well as Friedrich von Scheibler and his wife were soon among the richest representatives of the city of Iserlohn, also due to the enormous inheritance sums from the Rupe family.

In 1808, thanks to his outstanding position, Scheibler was elected Maire von Iserlohn in the Hagen arrondissement of the Département de la Roer in the Duchy of Berg on the Rhine and was appointed Grand Ducal Council of State and imperial “Capitaine de chasse” (hunter captain). After the French withdrew, Scheibler was appointed major in the Prussian Landwehr .

In addition to his professional obligations, Scheibler was interested in intensive contacts with social and religious groups. On September 16, 1802, he was one of the co-founders of the Iserlohner " Gesellschaft Harmonie ", from which there were many links to the Iserlohn Masonic Lodge .

Furthermore, on December 1, 1814, he founded the Märkische Bibelgesellschaft , of which he became the first president and whose other prominent members of the executive committee also included the later district administrator Peter Eberhard Müllensiefen , whom he had known and valued for a long time. This resulted in Scheibler joining the Herrnhuter Brothers Congregation a year later , which in Iserlohn had been grouped around the committed pastor Johann Abraham Strauss for some time and who was also Müllensiefen as a vehement representative of Swedenborgism and the later first Oberpräsident of Westphalia Ludwig Freiherr von Vincke as patron belonged to.

In addition, Scheibler, together with Müllensiefen, Vincke, his relative Johann Caspar Harkort and others, was one of the members of the " Literary Association of Grafschaft Mark ", which at that time was under the direction of the Schwerter doctor and polymath Friedrich Bährens and from 1814 to 1860 duration.

After the death of Friedrich von Scheibler, a street in Iserlohn was named after him in his honor.

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from Scheibler's house Iserlohn

His marriage to Theodore Luise Rupe produced a son and four daughters. His son Friedrich, von Scheibler, jun. (1803–1828) died just four years after his father and one year after his marriage to Emilie Pastor (* 1800) from Aachen , shortly before the birth of his daughter Frieda (* 1827), who later became Bonn church historian Wilhelm Ludwig Krafft got married.

Luise Rupe brought her parents' house, built in 1783, into the marriage, which has been known as the von Scheibler house since her marriage and to this day . After the death of her son, she moved to the Villigst house in Villigst near Schwerte, whose builder and owner Ludwig Freiherr von Elverfeldt had married her eldest daughter Julie (* 1800), and where she took care of her six grandchildren. She sold the Von Scheibler house to the city of Iserlohn, which initially set up a school, later the employment office, and then temporarily the building office. After all, it served as the radio station for Radio MK for a few years and is currently home to the city's picture gallery.

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SURNAME Scheibler, Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cloth manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Monschau
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1824
Place of death Iserlohn