Jakob Kleynmans

Jakob Kleynmans (born September 21, 1856 in Niel , † November 12, 1933 in Recklinghausen ) was a German mine director and economic politician.

Life

Born the son of a carpenter, Kleynmans started a commercial apprenticeship at a colliery in Altenessen after finishing primary school .

As early as 1872, Friedrich Grillo and Carl Funke made him head of the König Ludwig colliery near Recklinghausen-Bruch. Since the workers of the colliery did not have enough liquid funds for a director's salary at the time, he received an annual Kux . The local drainage problems he could use Woolfscher dewatering machine and the shaft lining with tubbing resolve sustainable, flourished after which the mining companies. Already at the turn of the century the Kuxe are said to have been traded on the Essen stock exchange for 60,000 gold marks; thus Jakob Kleynmans was a wealthy man by his standards.

Working in the coal syndicate and its committees, membership in numerous mining, coal trading and coal shipping organizations, Jakob Kleynmans recognized business and economic relationships very quickly and implemented them in entrepreneurial decisions and decisions.

Around 1900 another pit was started on the "Henrichenburger Feld" near Suderwich . From 1892 to 1905 director Kleynmans was a member of the city council of Recklinghausen. In 1905 he was elected to the City Council and the Provincial Parliament of Westphalia for the Center Party . Even years later, leading SPD members are said to have emphasized his social attitude towards Kleynmans' grandson, who sat for the CDU in the Recklinghausen city council. B. the establishment of a miners' settlement went back on his initiative.

In 1912 Kleynmans became a full member and then chairman of the mining board of the King Ludwig union. On January 24, 1913, he was appointed general manager.

In 1924 he was awarded the honorary doctorate engineer by the Technical University of Hanover for his outstanding services to the extraction and administration of Westphalian hard coal . From 1921 to 1930 he was president of the Münster Chamber of Commerce.

At the end of the 1920s, Jakob Kleynmans retired on the occasion of the unification of the mining companies "Ewald" and "König Ludwig".

"Anyone who sees the past correctly, knows the forces at work in it, gains the right distance from the questions of the day, learns to understand it better in connection with the past and becomes confident in one's own actions."

Web links

• Contributions to the 132-year history of hard coal mining in Recklinghausen (PDF; 6.8 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituaries and obituaries in the "Recklinghäuser Zeitung", issue of November 14, 1933
2. ↑ ^{a b c} http://www.ihk-nordwestfalen.de/fileadmin/medien/01_Mittelstand/06_Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/Wirtschaftsspiegel/01_2004.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.