Jean Schoen

Bust of Jean Schoen at the worsted spinning mill in Kaiserslautern

Jean Schoen (born April 15, 1825 in Mulhouse , † 28. February 1887 in Kaiserslautern ) was technical director of Kammgarnspinnerei Kaiserslautern .

The son of the factory owner Jean Schoen from Mulhouse in Alsace was the first technical manager of the worsted spinning mill in 1857. Under his leadership, the company became the most successful in Kaiserslautern and the largest of its kind in Europe. Schoen played a key role in setting up a workers' settlement in what was then the Kotten district .

In November 1882 Jean Schoen married Anna Luise Simon, the daughter of the high school director Karl Jakob Simon from Kaiserslautern.

In 1872 he received the Ludwig Medal , in 1882 he was awarded the title of Kommerzienrat . Schoen died in 1887 at the age of 62 and left the Jean Schoen Foundation , which was supposed to secure the old age pension of the employees of the worsted spinning mill.

The front part of the Kaiserslautern Garden Show , which was created by demolishing some of the worsted spinning mills, is known as the Jean-Schoen-Park, an event hall there was also named after him, the Jean-Schoen-Halle. In the immediate vicinity, Schoenstrasse on the site of the worsted yarn spinning mill is named after Schoen; there is a bust of the entrepreneur on the street.

literature

• District of Kaiserslautern (Ed.): Home guide of the German districts - District of Kaiserslautern , Wilhelm Stolfuß Verlag, Bonn 1968, p. 257.