Gottlieb Kyllmann

Carl Gottlieb Kyllmann (born May 21, 1803 in Weyer , Merscheid municipality , today Solingen ; † September 6, 1878 in Bonn ) was the landowner, district deputy and district administrator of the Solingen district .

Life

Kyllmann as a businessman

Gottlieb Kyllmann was born as the son of the Evangelical Reformed landowner and merchant in cotton , twist and speculative business, Peter Daniel Kyllmann, in Weyer, a village that now belongs to Solingen on the road connecting Wald to Ohligs . While nothing more is known about his education, Gottlieb Kyllmann obviously continued his father's twisting business unchanged. At times he also worked as a wholesale merchant in Manchester , where he became a partner in the company "Aders, Preyer & Cie.".

Kyllmann as an art sponsor

In the early 1850s, Kyllmann moved with his family to Bonn . After he had previously acquired another property on Poppelsdorfer Allee , he had a villa built there in 1853 on a plot of land on what was then Coblenzer Straße (now Adenauerallee ). The complex, designed by the architect Albert Dietrich based on Max Nohl's designs , burned down during the Second World War and was abandoned in 1948/49 in favor of the new building for the Foreign Office , completed in 1955 .

As before in their house in Wald, the Kyllmann couple maintained lively social intercourse in their Bonn home on the banks of the Rhine with a view of the Siebengebirge . The most famous artists and especially musicians of the time frequented and stayed with them. Gottlieb Kyllmann cultivated friendships with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , who already tried in 1835 to get a grand piano for Kyllmann, with Johannes Brahms and with Joseph Joachim . Its wing was decorated with Clara Schumann's monogram . He repeatedly made his own funds available for cultural purposes or helped to raise funds; For example, he approached wealthy people from Bonn to finance the Robert Schumann memorial created by Adolf Donndorf . He himself made a significant sum available to preserve Ludwig van Beethoven's estate ( Anton Schindler 's holdings ). Not least at his suggestion, the Society of Friends of Antiquities in Bonn, of which he was himself a member, bought Ernst Moritz Arndt's villa after his death, and the later takeover by the city of Bonn as a memorial also happened with his help.

Olga Sonntag also assumes that the sculptor Bernhard Afinger was sponsored , whose daughter Elise later became the first wife of Kyllmann's son Walter.

Political activity

Due to his profession as a landowner and wealthy businessman, Kyllmann was one of the representatives of the Solingen district according to the three-class suffrage . This resulted in his repeated appointment to public offices: 1837 provisional mayor of the mayorships of Wald and Merscheid, 1838 alderman of Merscheid (confirmed again in 1843), at the same time school board member in Weyer and from 1840 he represented the district as 2nd district deputy . Kyllmann was also vice-president of the Solingen Chamber of Commerce from 1845 to 1847 and was a member of the Prussian state parliament in 1847 . In conjunction with the revolution of 1848 he was appointed as head of the group formed to maintain law and order and security vigilantes used.

After District Administrator Julius left the Bussche-Ippenburg in June 1850, Kyllmann found acceptance of the district estate and succeeded it, but refused the proposed examination before the Düsseldorf government . This was necessary if there was no regular training (study of law and camera studies , as well as subsequent state examinations ). As a consequence, he only held the office of district administrator for the Solingen district from July 1850 to December 14, 1850.

After moving to Bonn, Kyllmann was a member of the city council from 1857 until shortly before his death, in which he addressed cultural issues and, in particular, the field of music.

family

Gottlieb Kyllmann married Sara Luise Dorothea Henriette Preyer (born February 20, 1812 in Viersen , † December 25, 1874 in Bonn) in 1830 , a daughter of the textile manufacturer Kornelius Peter Dietrich Preyer and his wife Henriette Luise Margaretha Dorothea Preyer nee. Siebel. The couple had six children in Weyer, including the later Berlin architect Walter Kyllmann . One of Kyllmann's grandsons was the politician Walter Simons , who temporarily held the office of Reich President in 1925 .

literature

• Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 168,304 .
• Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1849–1914. Volume 2., Bouvier, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , pp. 135-143 u. P. 371 (Notes) (= Dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1849–1914. Volume 2., Bouvier, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , p. 141.