Heinrich Arnold Huyssen

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Heinrich Arnold Huyssen

Heinrich Arnold Huyssen (born July 4, 1779 in Essen , † October 6, 1870 in Altenessen ) was a German industrialist , co-founder of the Oberhausen Gutehoffnungshütte and mayor of the city of Essen.

Life

Huyssen came from a long-established Essen family. His father was a councilor and mine owner. Heinrich Arnold Huyssen trained in his father's company.

Along with Franz and Gerhard Haniel and Gottlob Jacobi he founded in 1808 the huts union and action Jacobi, Haniel & Huyssen (JHH), which later became the Gutehoffnungshütte Corporation (GHH) emerged. In the run-up to the establishment of the company, there were serious tensions between him and the other three shareholders, which were based on Huyssen's approach to the purchase of the ironworks Gute Hoffnung in Sterkrade . Huyssen had actually conducted the negotiations with the previous owner Helene Amalie Krupp on behalf of the Haniel brothers and their brother-in-law Jacobi, who wanted to merge Gute Hope with the St. Antony and Neu-Essen huts they already own in order to avoid the unfavorable competitive situation between to eliminate the three works. Huyssen finally acquired the hut for himself and made its assignment to the newly founded union dependent on his acceptance as a partner with equal rights, which Franz Haniel in particular saw as blackmail. Later, too, there were repeated conflicts between the two about the company's course.

In addition to the steelworks union and dealership Jacobi, Haniel & Huyssen (JHH), Huyssen was a board member of the United Sälzer & Neuack colliery in Essen.

In November 1813, he was the Prussian appointed government as mayor of the city of Essen and entered the office on 13 December 1813 as successor of the last mayor of Essen, Anton Carl Ludwig von Tabouillot on. After differences arose between him and the Prussian supervisory authority, which established a strict tax regime and accused the city of insufficient disease prevention, he resigned from office on May 19, 1818.

Huyssen stood up for the Essen rifle system and was appointed rifle colonel for life in 1837. He had an orphanage built on the Hofterberg at his own expense, which he continued to support financially. On December 25, 1852, he signed a deed of donation in which he donated land and money to the Protestant community for the construction of the first Protestant hospital in Essen. In 1853 the foundation stone was laid on today's Huyssenallee in front of the former Kettwiger Tor, and in 1854 the hospital with the name Huyssens-Stift was opened. As the founder of the clinic, Huyssen became an honorary voting member of the Board of Trustees for life.

He remained unmarried and died at the age of 91 in his Villa Bella not far from Altenessen train station . He was first buried in the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor and then reburied in the Protestant cemetery in Sterkrade on Steinbrinkstraße at the request of the Sterkrade community. Today the tomb is located in the East Cemetery in Essen . Heinrichstrasse and Huyssenallee in Essen's southern district are named after him.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Haniel 1756–2006: a chronicle in data and facts ; Duisburg 2006; P. 68 ff. Bähr u. a .: The MAN ; Pp. 35-38.
  2. Bähr u. a .: The MAN ; P. 88 f.