Gustav Schlieper

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Portrait at the Elberfeld Poor Care Memorial in Wuppertal

Gustav Schlieper (born June 20, 1837 in Elberfeld (now in Wuppertal ), † March 26, 1899 in Nice ), to differentiate himself from his father Gustav Schlieper jun. called, was a German industrialist .

Life

Gustav Schlieper jun. (1837–1899) was the eldest son of Gustav Schlieper senior. (1805-1880) and Alwina Jung (1812-1890). He was a partner in the Schlieper & Baum company in Elberfeld. The company was the most important fabric printing company in Elberfeld. Gustav Schlieper jun. married on March 31, 1864 Helene Baum, the daughter of company partner Peter Rudolf Baum and Emma Sophie Schmits-Siebel. The Schlieper marriage remained childless.

Gustav Schlieper was a democrat and since 1873 a national liberal member of the city council in Elberfeld. In 1885 he gave up his seat and founded the "Liberal Citizens' Association" because he no longer wanted to support the increasingly conservative politics of his party. In 1895 he retired from business and politics because of a heart disease. He lived in Bonn in summer and on the Riviera in winter. He died there in 1899.

Gustav Schlieper jun. acquired the Rosenburg in Bonn from the Goldfuß heirs in 1862 . After the war of 1870/1871, large parts of the original building were demolished and new ones built. The Schlieper family had a good relationship with the Kessenich population and supported the poor in the community. Gustav Schlieper's tomb is located in the old Kessenich cemetery . His widow married the then director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , Ernst Roeber .

Services

Together with Daniel von der Heydt and David Peters, Schlieper was a co-founder of the Elberfeld system of poor welfare.

Under his chairmanship on October 31, 1872, various steam boiler operators founded the “Association for the Monitoring of Steam Boilers in the Elberfeld and Barmen Districts ”, the forerunner of today's TÜV Rheinland . Gustav Schlieper held the office of chairman of the association from 1872 to 1875.

literature

  • Horst Heidermann : Unter Linden on the Rhine - the resting places of the Wuppertal in Bonn and Bad Godesberg. History in Wuppertal, vol. 17, 2008, pp. 66–106.
  • B. Koerner & E. Strutz: Bergisches Geschlechtbuch 1 (DGB 24) , Görlitz 1913, p. 173.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Welz: With security towards the future - The history of TÜV Rheinland , Verlag TÜV Rheinland, 1996, page 41 ff., Page 141
personal data
SURNAME Schlieper, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlieper, Gustav jun.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1899
Place of death Nice