Heinrich Anton Delius

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Heinrich Anton Delius (* May 2, 1807 in Versmold ; † May 2, 1896 ibid) was a German textile entrepreneur and landowner.

Life

Anton Heinrich Delius was a scion of the Versmold merchant dynasty Delius and emigrated to Mexico in the summer of 1827 . On the sea route to Mexico his ship capsized and Delius was stuck on a small island for a few weeks. In January 1828, the castaways were picked up by a Spanish schooner and brought ashore, from where Delius could drive to his destination Tampico .

In Mexico he became a partner in the English firm Davis & Co. He earned so much money that he returned to Versmold in 1840. After Anton Heinrich, other brothers and cousins ​​worked in Mexico. They ran the trading company "Delius Hermanos y Cía" in Durango. The content of the business was the import of European goods such as iron and haberdashery, weapons, porcelain, glass, paper and beverages. They also traded in products from Mexico and also carried out export and banking transactions.

Returning to Versmold, Anton Heinrich Delius bought the Caldenhof in Versmold in 1841 and set up a private park on the site that had been used for agriculture and forestry on an island between the Aabach and a branched off flood. There he planted a Douglas fir there in 1843 , which he had brought back from his honeymoon. Other park trees such as the tulip tree , feather beech , sequoia or copper beech followed later . The site was later bought by the city and today forms the city park of Versmold.

From 1841 to 1846, Anton Heinrich Delius was a partner of his cousin Conrad Wilhelm Delius as a partner in Anton Heinrich Delius & Conrad Wilhelm Delius & Co. , a linen and canvas factory and business in Versmold.

In Versmold a street was named after Anton-Heinrich-Delius. ▼

family

Delius married Eleonore Henriette Sophie Auguste Spiekerkötter on May 2, 1843 in Halle / Westphalia . Among other things, the later Lord Mayor of Siegen Anton Delius emerged from the marriage. The daughter Elise Bernhardine Ottilie (1848–1938) married the businessman Franz Rudolph Florenz August Wilmanns in 1871, who from 1865 to 1879 was an employee and partner in various companies in Durango, Mexico. Their marriage had thirteen children, including the psychiatrist Karl Wilmanns and the chemist Gustav Wilmanns .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ " Emigration to Mexico in 1827 - Report on the emigration of HA Delius to Mexico - by Richard Sautmann - Retrieved from Suite101.de
  2. ↑ Always a reflection of its time ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Foundation Westphalian Economic Archives ; Collection F 11 - Conrad Wilhelm Delius & Co
  4. ↑ Wilmanns-Bielefeld family database ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-maus-bremen.de
personal data
SURNAME Delius, Heinrich Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile industrialist and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Versmold
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1896
Place of death Versmold