Gustav von Mallinckrodt

Gustav von Mallinckrodt as Heidelberg Rhenane and Strasbourg Swabian

Gustav Wilhelm von Mallinckrodt (born June 2, 1859 in Cologne , † March 3, 1939 there ) was a German industrialist and politician.

Life

Mallinckrodt was a son of the secret councilor Gustav von Mallinckrodt and his wife Bertha, nee. Deichmann, a daughter of the banker Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann . He attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in his hometown Cologne and studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (member of the Corps Rhenania ) as well as at the University of Strasbourg (member / honorary member of the Corps Suevia ) and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . After graduating as Dr. jur. (1881) he joined his father's company, first moving to Belgium and Great Britain and later becoming a partner in the company. After its dissolution in 1906, he worked as an entrepreneur in various industries. He was a member of the supervisory board of several industrial companies, including the Colonia fire and accident insurance (Cologne, 1914-1939), the iron and steel works Hoesch AG (Dortmund), the United Cologne-Rottweiler Pulverfabriken AG, the A. Schaaffhausen'scher Bankverein AG (Cologne ) and the Cologne Reinsurance Company . He was also a member of the committee of Deutsche Bank and Disconto-Gesellschaft AG and a member and vice - chairman of the board of directors of Flora AG.

He was also politically committed to the National Liberal Party and was a city ​​councilor for the city of Cologne from 1900-1919 (1907-1919 member of the parliamentary committee), and from 1916-1919 a member of the Rhineland Provincial Parliament. In the National Liberal Party, Mallinckrodt was a member of the Cologne party executive and a member of the central executive and executive committee of the Rhine Province . In 1919 he switched to the left-wing liberal German Democratic Party (DDP).

Mallinckrodt was a board member of the Association for Trade and Industry, deputy chairman of the Association for People's Hygiene in Cologne, deputy chairman of the Kölner Verkehrsverein, co-founder of the Cologne Women's Training Association, chairman of the Natural History Association, board member of the Society for Rhenish History , board member of the Provincial Association of the Reds Cross in Cologne. He founded in 1914 (and directed 1914-1919) the verification of wounded and missing persons from the Red Cross Cologne (the first in Germany) and was a co-founder and honorary member of the Cologne racing club.

Family grave (Melaten cemetery)

As a patron , he was mainly active through foundations for the benefit of the Cologne Cathedral, the natural history museum there and the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum . As a city councilor, he also made a contribution to founding the commercial college and the museum for trade and industry.

Von Mallinckrodt was buried in the family grave at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (HWG No. 105/106).

Works

• Contribution to the history of the Schaaffhausen family in Cologne. Du Mont-Schauberg, Cologne 1896. Digitized

literature

• Christoph Franke: Business and politics as a challenge. The liberal entrepreneurs (von) Mallinckrodt in the 19th century. (= Supplement to the journal for corporate history , issue 88.) Stuttgart 1995.
• Thomas Deres: The Cologne Council. Biographical Lexicon. Volume 1 (1794-1919). (= Messages from the city archive of Cologne , volume 92.) Cologne 2001, p. 133 f.
• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1182 f.
• Hans Carl Scheibler , Karl Wülfrath : West German Ahnentafeln I. (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History , Volume XLIV.) Böhlau, Weimar 1939.