Guilleaume (entrepreneurial family)

The German entrepreneurial family Guilleaume is closely connected to the company history of Felten & Guilleaume , a company producing hemp rope, wire, wire rope and cable in Cologne , which was a leader in rope and cable manufacture, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries.

history

The origins of the Felten & Guilleaume company can be traced back to Johann Theodor Felten (1747–1827). Felten had been a master rope maker in Cologne since the end of the 18th century and produced cord, twine and light ropes, supplied other rope workers with raw materials and employed them in the publishing system . After Feltens last son Adolf Felten died, the son-in-law Franz Karl Guilleaume "the elder" (1798–1837), husband of daughter Christina Felten (1788–1853), was taken into the business. Theodor Felten and Karl Guilleaume founded the company "Theodor Felten & Guilleaume" in 1826.

Franz Carl Guilleaume "the Younger" (1834–1887) was called "the Siemens of the West" because of his services to the wire and cable industry. His sons Theodor, Max and Arnold von Guilleaume were the number one millionaires in Cologne at the turn of the 20th century.

The Guilleaumes owned real estate in Remagen since the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century . Franz Carl “the Younger” bought Gudenau Castle . His son Max von Guilleaume acquired 1895 Good Calmuth and let it expand and 1907 is located along the Rhine to a representative country house ( "Castle Calmuth") Castle Marienfels , his brother Arnold of Guilleaume was from 1906 to 1908 the manor castle Ernich built and acquired in 1916 / 17 the adjoining Villa Haus Herresberg .

Descendant table of Christoph Guilleaume

I. Christoph Guilleaume (1741–1804; notary in Solingen , Hilden and Haan ) ∞ Theresia Bock

II.1. Hermann Joseph Guilleaume (1778–1856; tax inspector and landowner) ∞ Karoline Schniewind

III. Bonaventura Guilleaume (1811–1857; merchant in Cologne, landowner and postman in Engelskirchen ) ∞ Amalie Kotz (1815–1873; daughter of Heinrich Kotz and Katharina Heuser)

IV. Emil Guilleaume (1846–1913) ∞ Eleonore Roffers (1855–1921)

II.2. Franz Karl Guilleaume “the Elder” (1789–1837) ∞ Christina Felten (1788–1853), daughter of Johann Theodor Felten (1747–1827; master rope maker and manufacturer in Cologne) and Elisabeth Fischer

III.1. Johann Theodor Guilleaume (1812–1879) ∞ first marriage to Wilhelmine Dahmen (1811–1838)

IV. Franz Carl Guilleaume “the Younger” (1834–1887) ∞ Antoinette Gründgens (1837–1922), bought Gudenau Castle

V.1. Theodor Freiherr von Guilleaume (1861–1933; General Director of the Carlswerk , 1900 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Carlswerk, Privy Councilor of Commerce) ∞ Hortense von Mallinckrodt (1867–1950)

V.2. Hubert Julius Maximilian called Max von Guilleaume (* February 17, 1866; † June 15, 1932; Privy Councilor of Commerce) ∞ Clara Michels (1869–1930), daughter of Gustav Michels

V.3. Arnold Karl Hubert von Guilleaume (1868–1939) ∞ Elisabeth "Ella" Deichmann (1875–1972), daughter of the banker Otto Deichmann (1838–1911)

VI.1. Erwin von Guilleaume (1897–1993)

VI.2. Irmgard "Timtam" by Guilleaume (1899–1987)

VI.3. Joachim von Guilleaume (1901–1989)

VI.4. Herwart von Guilleaume (* 1903)

VI.5. Adalbert von Guilleaume (1909–1929)

VI.6. Arno von Guilleaume (* 1909), twin brother of Adalbert

V.4. Josephine Emma Maria Guilleaume (born September 2, 1871) ∞ August Neven Du Mont (1866–1909), painter

III.1. Johann Theodor Guilleaume (1812–1879) ∞ second marriage to Henriette Büttgen (1823–1902)

IV. Franz Johann Guilleaume (1848–1914), Privy Councilor of Commerce, owner of the stoneware factory and art pottery Franz Anton Mehlem in Bonn

III.2. Carl August Guilleaume (* 1820)

literature

• Franz Brill:  Guilleaume, Arnold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 298 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Brill:  Guilleaume, Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 298 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Brill:  Guilleaume, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 298 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Franz Brill:  Guilleaume, Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 299 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Brill: Franz Carl Guilleaume. In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien . Volume 7, Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung , Münster (Westphalia) 1960, pp. 25–47.
• Gabriele Oepen-Domschky, Foundation Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln (publisher): Cologne economic citizens in the German Empire. Eugen Langen, Ludwig Stollwerck, Arnold von Guilleaume and Simon Alfred von Oppenheim (= writings on Rhenish-Westphalian economic history. Volume 43). Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-933025-38-9 .
• Günther Schulz: The workers and employees at Felten & Guilleaume. Social historical investigation of a Cologne industrial company (= supplement to the journal for corporate history . No. 13). Franz Steiner Verlag , Wiesbaden 1979, ISBN 3-515-02885-4 .
• Horst A. Wessel : The entrepreneurial family Felten and Guilleaume (1747-1939). In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien. Volume 13, Aschendorffsche Verlagbuchhandlung , Münster 1986, ISBN 3-402-05588-0 , pp. 3–112.
• Sascha Widdig: Felten & Guilleaume - Carlswerk. Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-942-0 .

Remarks

1. ↑ Otto Deichmann was the son of Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann .
2. ↑ Later Villeroy & Boch , see history of the porcelain and stoneware factory Ludwig Wessel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gabriele Oepen-Domschky: (from) Guilleaume business family. Rhenish history portal of the Rhineland Regional Association, September 30, 2010, accessed on May 31, 2013 .  
2. ↑ Rathausverein Oberwinter: Ernich (PDF), 12 panels from the Herresberg - Marienfels - Ernich exhibition in May 2013