Heinrich Feldmann-Simons

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Heinrich Feldmann-Simons, painted by Heinrich Christoph Kolbe

Franz Heinrich Wilhelm Friedrich Feldmann-Simons , b. Feldmann (born August 21, 1787 in Dortmund , † August 12, 1865 (according to another source, 1866) in Düsseldorf ) was a German velvet manufacturer and partner in the house of Joh. Simon's heirs in Elberfeld . From 1834 to 1840 he was President of the Elberfeld and Barmen Chamber of Commerce .

Life

Heinrich Feldmann was the son of Caspar Wilhelm Feldmann (1756–1831) and Anna Christina Sophia (Sophie) Krupp (1763–1789), an established Dortmund bourgeois family. Caspar Wilhelm Feldmann was a cloth merchant, inheritance and music historian in Dortmund.

Feldmann went to Elberfeld in 1803, where he enjoyed a commercial apprenticeship and then founded a shop for velvet and silk ribbon. In 1811 he allied himself with Johann Engels, a nephew of Johann Simons, to form the Feldmann & Engels company . This company produced pieces of collection as well as double and solder straps . After the death of his father-in-law in 1822, Feldmann became a partner in the Johann Simons Erben company . Since then he has signed his name Feldmann-Simons.

As a personality of Elberfeld, he was involved in the establishment of the Vaterländische Feuerversicherungs-Gesellschaft , of which he was a member of the board of directors for a long time. He was also a commercial judge and was a member of the city council. In the last-mentioned function he was a member of the town hall building commission. He made a contribution to the establishment of the Elberfeld and Barmen Chamber of Commerce and replaced Heinrich Kamp as President in 1834 .

As President of the Chamber, Feldmann-Simons campaigned for the development of transport in Elberfeld and Barmen. In 1825 he took over the chairmanship of the Elberfeld Committee for the construction of the Elberfeld-Düsseldorf and Elberfeld-Witten railways . He was a member of the board of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Komitee and in 1836 was one of the co-founders of the Steamship Company for the Lower and Middle Rhine in Düsseldorf . He was also a co-founder of the Elberfeld Citizens' Association in 1831 and was appointed to the district council in the same year.

Due to his poor health, Feldmann-Simons resigned many of his honorary positions at the beginning of the 1840s and also left the Johann Simons Erben company in 1846 . He was a member of the Elberfeld City Council until 1850. As a result of the Elberfeld uprising in May 1849, he was first excluded from the community council for a year by a royal decree of November 5, 1849, like most other community representatives. He was rehabilitated at the request of the community.

Feldmann-Simons moved to Düsseldorf, where he died on August 12, 1865.

family

On November 6, 1809, he married Friederika “Fritz” Simons (1792–1873), daughter of Benjamin Simons (1764–1822), and Maria Gertrud Domler in Elberfeld. Simons was a manufacturer and worked on the Elberfeld city council as well as a partner in the Johann Simons Erben company . Feldmann's marriage resulted in three daughters, Caroline (1810–1894, wife of Eugen von Braunschweig), Marie (1812–1890, wife of Jakob Friedrich from Weerth) and Ottilie Adeline (1821–1880, wife of Hermann Schlieper). A granddaughter, child of daughter Marie, was the Düsseldorf writer and translator Maria Evers-aus'm Weerth , mother of the writer Hanns Heinz Ewers and Rear Admiral Ernst Ewers .

Honors

  • Heinrich Feldmann-Simons was awarded the title of Kommerzienrat (1840).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Feldmann / Simons. In: heidermanns.net. Retrieved January 9, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Chamber of Industry and Commerce Wuppertal 1831–1956 (commemorative publication for the 125th anniversary on January 17, 1956) . Wuppertal 1956. pp. 217-218
  3. ↑ a b c Feldmann / Krupp. In: heidermanns.net. Retrieved January 9, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c Simons / Dümmler. In: heidermanns.net. Retrieved January 9, 2016 .
  5. ^ Franz Heinrich Wilhelm Friedrich Feldmann , genealogical data sheet in the portal gedbas.genealogy.net , accessed on November 3, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Feldmann-Simons, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feldmann, Franz Heinrich Wilhelm Friedrich Feldmann (full name); Feldmann, Heinrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1865
Place of death Dusseldorf