Jean Balthazar

Jean Balthazar

Jean Balthazar , Johann Heinrich Karl Balthazar, (born August 27, 1857 in Cologne , † 1926 in Wiesbaden ) was a German businessman and industrialist , living in Bonn . In Westerstede, the district town of the Ammerland district in northwest Lower Saxony , Balthazar was a large landowner and entrepreneur . He was a partner and co-founder of Rhenish and Central German mines, such as B. Hallesche Kaliwerke Aktiengesellschaft , founded in Cologne in 1905. In 1896 he co-founded the Dutch “Steenkohlen Handels-Vereinenigung”, a branch of the Rhenish-Westphalian coal syndicate. This is how today's SHV Holdings developed .

Act

In the late 1890s, Jean Balthazar lived in the Netherlands, where he ran a wholesale coal business. A close business partner was FHFentener van Vlissingen (1849–1918) and his son Frederick Henry van Vlissingen (1882–1962). The result was a friendship between the families that lasted until after Balthazar's death. Together with he founded large companies such as "SHV", Utrecht. The syndicate was only allowed to sell domestic coal and negotiated exclusive contracts with the railway companies. Despite the discounts granted, this monopoly was a lucrative business (from Eva-Maria Roelevink: "Organized intransparency: ...). They also founded the" Nederlandsche Kunstzijdenfabrik ENKA ", which on April 28, 1911 became a stock company, like the Handbuch der Deutschen Aktiengesellschaft , Volume 48, Part 6. Balthazar was also a co-founder of the “Utrechtsche Administratiekantoor Unitas”, Utrecht, which did not have the syndicate requirements and syndicate advantages of the SHV. This company worked closely with the SVH. In 1897, Balthazar returned His family returned to Germany and lived in Bonn until his death, where he founded Balthazar GmbH. He continued his Dutch business and investments from Germany without hindrance. In 1898 he bought the Karlshof moor in Westerstede in Lower Saxony and converted it into one the region beyond with the then innovative building material reinforced concrete This estate was located until 1931/32. 1907–1917 Balthazar was the owner of the " Clay and Brown Coal Mine Berggarten " and co-founder of the " Ceramic Chemicals Berggarten Union " in Siershahn in the Westerwald . Balthazar acquired Gut Garnholt, also in Westerstede, in 1918 as a farm for fodder cultivation. Balthazar's heirs lived there for over 30 years after his death. Also in 1918, as documented by the Westerstede City Archives, Jean Balthazar acquired the Mayerhof with 45 hectares of land and the Grasbrock and Thalenbusch plots in Westerstede. In 1919, he replaced the Mayerhof buildings with new ones. They are still almost unchanged today and are listed as historical monuments. Balthazar's administrator and manager of the Westersted estates was Heinrich Jaspers. After the death of Jean Balthazar, Jaspers acquired the court from Balthazar's heirs. Today the so-called Jaspers-Hochkamp is owned by the city of Westerstede.

Honors

For his services to the Oldenburg moor culture, Balthazar was appointed commercial councilor in 1912 , and in 1919 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn "to a great promoter of social reforms and warm-hearted helper in the fight against tuberculosis and housing shortages."

family

Jean Balthazar married Paula Baecker in Cologne in 1887. Together they had five children, three sons and two daughters.

• Theodor Balthazar, the youngest son, was to continue the successful business in his sense as Balthazar's successor, especially since the Dutch business was developing. During the First World War, however, Theodor fell on June 17, 1915.
• Hans Balthazar, called Jean, the eldest son of Balthazar, died on October 7, 1918.
• Albert August Balthazar , later called Adolf, took over Jean Balthazar GmbH in Bonn after Balthazar's death on March 30, 1926. This company had grown strongly from the Dutch fortune of Jean Balthazar since 1922. Due to unfortunate speculations, he lost the German company assets in the following years. The GmbH was liquidated from 1930 to 1933. The goods, the Moorgut Karlshof and the Mayerhof in Westerstede , were sold. Since there was a community of property of the heirs of Jean Balthazar, the mother received 2/5 and the siblings each received 1/5, just like himself, of the remaining capital. The Dutch million dollar fortune in guilders has not been released and distributed for a long time. Clarifications on this distribution of assets in connection with asset management by van Vlissinger continued until the late 1940s.
• Paula Balthazar (July 31, 1894 - 1981) married on January 12, 1917 in Bonn, Free Lord Friedrich von Tinti (1888–1948), resident of Schloss Pöchlarn, Austria. She had a daughter, Elisabeth Freiin von Tinti (born October 15, 1917– September 24, 2014)
• Johanna Balthazar (1901–1970), married Count August von Segur-Cabanac (1887–1929) in 1922. With Count Segur-Cabanac she had five sons, Niclas (1923), Alexander (1924), Leon (1927), Antoine and Heinrich (1929). Widowed at an early age, she married Count von Blanckenstein in 1932.

Builder of today's monuments

• Moorgut Karlshof property - motor mill with barn in Westerstede
• Jaspers-Hochkamp property in Westerstede

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1. ↑ Jaspers Hof opens its gates to RHODO . City of Westerstede. Archived from the original on April 16, 2016. Retrieved on May 19, 2019.

• Helmut Harms: Works and Change on Solid Ground , Westerstede 1999, ISBN 3-9802558-8-3
• Eva-Maria Roelevink: Organized intransparency: The coal syndicate and the Dutch market , RWKS and SHV until 1915, p. 8
• Handbook of German Stock Companies , Volume 48, Part 6
• OMGUS - External Assets Investigation - Fold3
• Documents from the Westerstede City Archives