Heinrich Theodor Wuppermann

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Heinrich Theodor Wuppermann , first name Theodor (* 16th March 1835 in Barmen - Scheuren (now part of Wuppertal ); † 9. August 1907 in Schlebusch ) was a German steel - entrepreneurs .

Life

Theodor Wuppermann, son of the businessman and entrepreneur Carl Theodor Wuppermann (1809–1889) and his wife Emma born. Scheibler from the clothier family Scheibler , grew up in the magnificent paternal home to Stoke on. After attending secondary school, in a departure from family tradition, he completed a two-year agricultural training course in Ramelow in Pomerania . He then worked as an inspector and chief inspector on various estates until he bought the run-down Neukünkendorf estate near Angermünde in 1864 and managed it successfully. In 1868 he married Charlotte Luise Deutsch (1840–1917), the daughter of a girls' school director, from Brandenburg an der Havel in Berlin . In 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War he sold the estate to a young officer.

In 1872 Wuppermann bought a steelworks in Oberbilk with a puddling furnace and a Luppen - forge and thus created the starting point for today's Wuppermann AG . In 1878 he took over the rolling and forging business of Heiderich from Cologne in Manfort . In 1879 he sold the plant in Oberbilk and relocated the Wuppermann company to Schlebusch .

Villa Wuppermann in Schlebusch , Mülheimer Str. 14

In 1885 Wuppermann bought the two-storey villa in the Swiss country house style with a landscaped garden based on the English model of the Mülheim cloth manufacturer Christoph Andreae Junior and lived there.

literature

  • Wuppermann - 140 years of tradition in steel (accessed on January 26, 2016).
  • JHC Scheibler: History and Gender Register of the Scheibler Family . Cologne 1895, p. 75 f.
  • Walter Dietz: Chronicle of the Wuppermann family . Vol. II, Leverkusen-Schlebusch 1965, p. 105 ff.
  • Walter Dietz: Heinrich Theodor Wuppermann . In: Wuppertal Biographies 1st episode . Contributions to the history and local history of Wuppertal Volume 4, Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1958, pp. 103-107.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Theodor Wuppermann (accessed June 8, 2018).
  2. ^ Heinrich Theodor Wuppermann (accessed January 26, 2016).
  3. ^ Heinrich Theodor Wuppermann (accessed January 26, 2016).
  4. ↑ The company always comes first ( memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed January 26, 2016). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.avesco.de
  5. ^ Villa Wuppermann (accessed January 26, 2016).
  6. ^ Family tree up to the 15th century . Rheinische Post , August 21, 2010 (accessed January 26, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Wuppermann, Heinrich Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German steel entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1907
Place of death Schlebusch