Gerrit van Delden

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Gerrit van Delden (born January 16, 1842 in Nordhorn , † January 1, 1925 in Gronau ) was a German chemist and textile industrialist .

Life

Gerrit van Delden was born as the son of Jan van Delden and Maria Elisabeth Sluyter and studied chemistry at the Polytechnic School in Hanover , where he became a member of the Corps Saxonia . After completing his studies, he initially headed the dye works in his brother's cotton spinning and weaving mill , Mattheus van Delden & Co.

In 1875 van Delden founded his own textile company, the Gerrit van Delden & Compagnie cotton spinning company . In 1883 he founded with his brother Matthieu and his nephew Jan and Ysaak in Ahaus Westfälische jute spinning mill Ahaus that the largest jute rose in Europe and was adopted in 1887 as a textile works Ahaus AG by the cotton mill Gronau (for Delden group belonging). In 1884 he expanded the Gronau company to include a twisting mill . Despite entrepreneurial setbacks - in 1878 and 1891 his main plant in Gronau burned down completely - he was able to steadily expand the company, which had been one of the largest spinning mills in Germany since the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. After setting up a fine spinning mill, Gerrit van Delden & Co. was one of the largest spinning mills in Europe. From 1903 and 1907, respectively, he took on his sons Hendrik and Mathieu as partners in the company. Hendrik van Delden became President of the World Cotton Spinning Association in 1938. In 1975, the year of its 100th anniversary, the company achieved an annual turnover of 690 million DM and had 7000 employees. The structural change in the economy did not stop at the Delden Group either. In 1982, all of the companies went bankrupt.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corps Saxonia Hannover (Ed.): History of the Corps Saxonia from 50th to 100th. Years of existence . Alois Wolpers printer, Hanover 1955, p. 135 .
  2. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten of April 14, 2015

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personal data
SURNAME Delden, Gerrit van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and textile industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhorn
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1925
Place of death Gronau (Westphalia)