Hoarding (entrepreneurial family)

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Horten is an entrepreneurial family from Kempen on the Lower Rhine . Heidi Horten , the widow of Helmut Horten , lives today in Austria on Lake Wörthersee . The department store chain Horten AG was temporarily the fourth largest department store chain in Germany.

Family history

Haus Horten , Kempen, built in 1773 on behalf of the merchant Henricus Horten and his wife Margaretha Bücker
Villa Horten , Kempen

The ancestors of Helmut Horten, whose origins lie in Kempen on the Lower Rhine, were already active in business. The parent company of the Horten family is still in Kempen today. In 1710, the oldest bearer of the name in Kempen, Matthias Hortensius (born on April 22nd, 1683 in Neuss) pays a “citizens' money” after he moved from Neuss to Kempen. Only the names of his direct descendants are known: Theodor (born January 29, 1711), Maria Gertrud (born February 4, 1713) and Anna Catharina (born April 6, 1716) and no further reports.

It was not until 1749 that a Henricus Matthias Horten (born March 23, 1723; October 27, 1779 in Kempen) was recorded in the Kempen civil register. His occupation was noted in the files as a " farmer and merchant". He seems to have become quite wealthy because he had to pay a high level of citizen money. Henricus Matthias had the ancestral home of the Horten family built in Kuhstrasse in Kempen in 1772; a still preserved, splendid, now restored town house . His son Joseph Johannes (born 1754; died on January 24, 1818 in Kempen) then succeeded in making the “leap from merchant to wholesale merchant”. He traded food, iron goods, oil, brandy and had silk goods made. With these various commodities, he laid the foundation for what would later become a millionaire fortune.

Of his ten children, whom he had in his first marriage to Katharina Agnes Domberg and in his second marriage to Sibylla Catharina Hüttmanns, he was followed by the sons Anton Heinrich (born April 8, 1800; died January 19, 1856 in Kempen) and Peter Josef (born December 21, 1802; died April 12, 1871 in Kempen) in the merchant trade. In addition to the diverse merchandise trade that they had taken over from their father, they ran a plush factory together with the Jewish merchant Isaak Kounen .

Peter Josef and his wife Maria Sophia Scholastika Hoenen had five sons and one daughter. One of the sons Anton Hubert (born March 5, 1838 in Kempen;. Died October 23, 1903 in Leipzig ) left Kempen to law study. Professionally successful, he finally accepted the office of the Reich Court Councilor at the Reich Court in Leipzig. He died there too. In addition to two daughters, he had six sons. The son Joseph (born May 27, 1880; died January 18, 1957 in Cologne ) followed his father in his professional career and, as a lawyer, became Senate President at the Higher Regional Court in Cologne. His marriage to Helene Biegfer had four children. One of the children was Helmut Horten (born January 8, 1909 in Bonn ; died November 30, 1987 in Croglio , Switzerland), the boss of the later Horten AG. He began a commercial apprenticeship in the Leonhard Tietz department store and then moved to the Alsberg department store in Duisburg as an employee .

Helmut Horten took over the department store Gebr. Alsberg, Strauss and Lauter in 1936 as part of an aryanization process and founded the company Horten & Co., from which Horten AG emerged.

genealogy

  • Henricus Matthias Horten (born March 23, 1723; died October 27, 1779 in Kempen)
    • Joseph Johannes (born 1754; died January 24, 1818 in Kempen)
      • Peter Josef (born December 21, 1802; died April 12, 1871 in Kempen) married to Maria Sophia Scholastika Hoenen
        • Anton Hubert Horten (born 1838 in Kempen; died October 23, 1903) married to Sidonie Sophie Kreuser (born 1849)
          • Maximilian Joseph Heinrich Horten (born May 7, 1874 in Elberfeld; died July 2, 1945 in Dietingen)
          • Josef Emil August Horten (born 1880), President of the Senate at the Higher Regional Court in Cologne, married to Helene Bieger (born 1880)
            • Rudolf Anton Josef Horten (born 1907)
            • Helmut Horten (born January 8, 1909 in Bonn; died 1987), married to Heidi Jelinek (born February 13, 1941)
            • Gisela Josefa Emilie Horten (born 1916)
          • Titus Maria Horten (born August 9, 1882 in Elberfeld, today a district of Wuppertal; died January 25, 1936)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermes: The old Kempen. A city in the mirror of the centuries. Krefeld 1982, p. 153.
  2. ↑ Hermes: The old Kempen. P. 154.
  3. ↑ Hermes: The old Kempen. P. 154 ff.
  4. ↑ Hermes: The old Kempen. P. 156.
  5. ↑ Hermes: The old Kempen. P. 157.
  6. ↑ Helmut Horten, entrepreneur (1909–1987)