Founding family

A founding family is the family of the founders of an industrial and commercial company .

Founding families are an important area of ​​work for genealogy and company history or company history with a narrower and for economic history with a wider social field of vision. In this research, it is important, in addition to the personality of the founder (see also talent ), to shed light on the economic and social relationships that z. B. are important for raising the start-up capital , for which a cheap marriage was often one of the prerequisites (see also marriage circle ).

While Wolfgang Huschke presented a work on the founders of 42 industrial companies in Thuringia in the 19th century in 1962 , similar work for other areas is still pending.

literature

• Hans Carl Scheibler and Karl Wülfrath : West German pedigrees vol. 1, Böhlau, Weimar, 1939

( What one does not suspect after the title and the year of publication: This timelessly exemplary work contains not only pedigrees , but an economic history of the most important founding families of the Rhine-Ruhr area and their mutual genealogical connection ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Huschke: Research on the origin of the Thuringian entrepreneurial class of the 19th century . Lutzeyer publishing house, Baden-Baden 1962

See also:

• Banking history
• Property bourgeoisie
• elite
• family business
• innovation
• Upper class