Heinrich Stinnes

Stinnes' signature

Heinrich Stinnes (* 8. January 1867 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † 4. November 1932 in Cologne ) was a Prussian Regierungsrat , art collector and brother of Hugo Stinnes .

Live and act

Heinrich Stinnes was born as the eldest son of Hermann Hugo Stinnes (1842–1887) and Adeline Stinnes (1844–1925), née Coupienne, into a wealthy Mülheim entrepreneurial family that had been successful in the coal trade and mining since the company was founded by grandfather Mathias Stinnes (1808) was active.

After attending grammar school in Mülheim an der Ruhr, he studied law at Heidelberg University from 1887 and became a member of the Rupertia Association . Stinnes completed his studies with a doctorate and entered the Prussian administrative service as an assessor in 1903 . After professional positions on the Lower Rhine and in Opole , Silesia , he was transferred to the district government in Cologne in 1905 as a councilor .

A chronic illness, which had already made his studies difficult and prolonged, forced him to give up his job and career in civil service. Instead he devoted himself to social projects in his adopted home of Cologne and worked as a book and art collector. His collection focused on numbered special editions and graphics from the 19th and 20th centuries by painters such as Ludwig Richter , Max Klinger , Otto Greiner , Max Slevogt , Lovis Corinth and Emil Nolde . He used to mark the books with his characteristic signature and the graphics with a purple collector's stamp as his property. From 1910 to 1932 he put together an important collection (including around 200,000 graphics), which after his death was sold piece by piece through auctions in Berlin, Leipzig and Bern at the instigation of the heirs.

Marriage and offspring

He married Margarethe Leonhard (1880–1903) in Berlin on August 17, 1900. Their son Hans Heinz (1901–1983) emerged from the marriage.

literature

Bernhard-Michael Domberg and Klaus Rathje: The Stinnes - From the Rhine into the world. History of an entrepreneurial family . Signum, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85436-399-6
German Family Archives, Volume 30, p. 107.
Heinrich Stinnes - portrait of a collector . In: Die Zeit , No. 1/1950
City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1550/14

Web links

Collector's stamp Heinrich Stinnes ( Lugt 1376a)

Individual evidence

^ Eduard Prüssen (linocuts), Werner Schäfke and Günter Henne (texts): Cologne heads . 1st edition. University and City Library, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-931596-53-8 , pp. 62 .

personal data
SURNAME	Stinnes, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art collector, Prussian government councilor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 8, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH	November 4, 1932
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Eduard Prüssen (linocuts), Werner Schäfke and Günter Henne (texts): Cologne heads . 1st edition. University and City Library, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-931596-53-8 , pp. 62 .