Georg Mathias Stinnes

Georg Mathias Stinnes (born May 21, 1817 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † April 13, 1853 there ) was a German merchant and shipowner.

Live and act

Georg Mathias Stinnes, also Mathias Stinnes junior or - popularly - called "the Mathisken", grew up as the eldest son of the businessman and company founder Mathias Stinnes (1790–1845) and his wife Anna Springmann (1789–1831) in Mülheim an der Ruhr . After the death of his father in 1845 he took over the management of the family-owned coal trading company and shipping company . The company, which was still flourishing at the time, soon suffered from the turmoil of the March Revolution of 1848/49. Against the background of a liquidity crisis, Stinnes converted the company into a stock corporation with the consent of his creditors and satisfied his financiers with the provision of shares. Within the next 12 years, the Stinnes family managed to buy back all of the shares. In 1860 the joint-stock company was dissolved and the company returned to the family. Georg Mathias Stinnes did not live to see this, however, as he died in 1853 at the age of 35. His younger brother Johann Gustav became the new managing director of Mathias Stinnes .

Marriage and children

On September 6, 1845 he married Eleonore Weuste (1819-1893). The marriage resulted in two daughters:

• Marie (1848-1939)
• Helene (1850-1922)

literature

• German Family Archives, Volume 30. S. 97 ff.
• Herbert Sinz: 150 years of Math. Stinnes . Darmstadt, 1958.
• Raimund Le Viseur: 175 years of Stinnes. The merchants from Mülheim. A German company chronicle . Düsseldorf, 1983.