Gustav Poensgen

Gustav Poensgen

Gustav Poensgen (born December 9, 1824 in Schleiden , † April 12, 1904 in Düsseldorf ) was a German industrialist and royal. Prussia. Secret Commerce Council . He comes from the widespread Eifel entrepreneur family Poensgen , who have operated iron works in the Schleiden area as Reidemeister since the mid-15th century . Some lines have moved to Düsseldorf and were instrumental in building up the Rhenish iron, steel and pipe industry.

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The son of the factory owner Reinhard Poensgen from Schleiden and Katharina Henriette Axmacher (1796–1850) relocated the iron and steel mill, inherited from his father together with his brother Rudolf Poensgen (1826–1895), from Gemünd to Düsseldorf in 1860 . This is how the Mariahütte and a rolling mill came into being in the Oberbilk district of Düsseldorf , with which they preferably supplied the tubular rolling mill of their distant cousin Albert Poensgen , who had also recently relocated from an Eifel village called Mauel near Gemünd to Düsseldorf. In 1872 Gustav and Rudolf Poensgen put their works with the tube rolling mill and the puddle and universal rolling mills of their cousin Albert Poensgen, which had since been added, to the large company " Düsseldorfer Röhren- und Eisenwalzwerke AG , vorm. Poensgen ”together. This company was merged in 1910 to become " Phönix AG für Bergbau und Hüttenbetrieb ". The ring around the core of the Rhenish-Westphalian industry was closed when the Phönix Group merged with the Thyssen Group , Rheinische Stahlwerke , Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG and a number of other mining companies to form " Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG ". This mining group, which consists of iron, steel and mining companies and has its administrative headquarters in Düsseldorf, has become one of the largest German companies.

Gustav Poensgen was co-founder of the coal mine " Graf Bismarck GmbH " in Gelsenkirchen and a partner in other mining companies such as the trade union (later Bergbau AG) Consolidation zu Gelsenkirchen-Schalke (1888 trade, 1889–1904 deputy, chairman of the supervisory board since 1895). Together with Friedrich Grillo and Friedrich Funke, he co-founded the Schalke mine and smelter association in 1872 . The city of Schleiden made him an honorary citizen in 1878. In memory of him, Düsseldorf named “Gustav-Poensgen-Strasse” and Gelsenkirchen named “Poensgenstrasse” (Schalke) after him. In Düsseldorf he founded the “Gustav Poensgen Foundation” to promote young artists.

family

Gravesite Gustav (1824–1904) and Rudolf Poensgen (1826–1895) in the north cemetery (Düsseldorf)

Gustav Poensgen was married to Maria Poensgen (1832–1861), daughter of his distant relative Carl Poensgen (1789–1867), a merchant in Cologne, and his second marriage to Luise Friedrich (1839–1913). Their daughter from this marriage, Lucie Poensgen (1865–1950), married Albert von Burgsdorff (1857–1919), owner of a manor at Garath Castle near Düsseldorf.

literature

• Lutz Hatzfeld:  Poensgen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 568 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Edmund Strutz (Ed.): German Gender Book , Volume 123, 1958, Verlag CA Starke, Glücksburg, Ostsee.
• Josef Wilden: Five Poensgen create a new Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, 1942
• Heinrich Kellerter, Ernst Poensgen: The story of the Poensgen family . Ed .: A. Bagel-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1908
• Horst Wessel: The entrepreneurs of the Poensgen family in the Eifel and Düsseldorf . In: Moving-Connecting-Shaping, Entrepreneurs from the 17th to the 20th Century , Writings on Rhenish-Westphalian Economic History, Vol. 44, Foundation Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln, Cologne, 2003
• Hermann Kleinfeld: Düsseldorf's streets and their names . Grupello, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-928234-36-6 , p. 148
• Hugo Weidenhaupt: A Brief History of the City of Düsseldorf . 9th edition. Triltsch, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-7998-0000-X , p. 112

Web links

• Extract from the Bochum mining archive at the coal portal (accessed May 20, 2008)
• Mining in Plettenberg (accessed May 20, 2008)
• albert-gieseler.de