Jakob Caspers

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Ludwig Jakob Caspers (born December 31, 1851 in Bubenheim ; † November 12, 1933 there ) was a German farmer, cooperative and state economist.

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Jakob Caspers was a son of Ludwig Philipp Caspers (1814–1880) and Antonie Euphemie Doll (1817–1856). His father owned shares in a Belgian cloth factory and later an estate in Bubenheim. The paternal grandparents were the cloth manufacturer Philipp and the Koblenz cloth wholesaler Anna Maria Fischer. The maternal grandparents were the Boppard merchant Karl Theodor Doll in Boppard and Anna Therese Huyn.

Caspers obtained his secondary school leaving certificate in Koblenz and then studied at the agriculture school in Liège . After an internship in France and England, he went back to his father's estate in 1877. He moved into the Düsseldorf Provincial Parliament as a rural member of parliament and was a member of the Provincial Committee of the Rhine Province . From the mid-1880s he became involved in rural cooperatives and in 1889 founded the Metternich-Bubenheim savings and loan association . The Association of Rural Cooperatives Raiffeisen'scher Organization of the Rhineland in Cologne elected him as director in 1901. After the energetic end of internal conflicts, in 1904 he received the post of General Director of the General Association of German Raiffeisen Cooperatives based in Neuwied and the chairmanship of the Agricultural Central Loan Fund for Germany.

Caspers tried to end the so-called system dispute with the Reich Association of Agricultural Cooperatives led by Wilhelm Haas . Together with Haas, he founded a working group of associations in 1905, which was a forerunner organization for a final merger that took place in 1930. Since the headquarters of the general association moved to Berlin due to the large number of cooperatives, Caspers resigned from all offices in 1910 and remained only association director of the Rhenish Raiffeisen organization.

Caspers had been married to a woman named Maria (1857–1925) since their wedding in Düsseldorf in 1886 . Her parents were the secret government councilor Hermann Seul from Düsseldorf and Katharina Laura Josten from Neuss. The Caspers couple had three sons, including Hermann Caspers. He worked as a lawyer and from 1923 as association president of the Raiffeisenverband Mittelrhein.

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SURNAME Caspers, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caspers, Ludwig Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer, cooperative member and regional economics councilor
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Bubenheim
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1933
Place of death Bubenheim