Johann Arnold Bischoff

Johann Arnold Bischoff (born March 13, 1796 in Sechtem ; † December 13, 1871 in Aachen ) was a German cloth manufacturer and president of the commercial court.

Live and act

The son of the landlord Heinrich Ignatz Bischoff and Anna Clara Pütz grew up on the manor Graue Burg in Sechtem and came to Aachen in the early 1820s. This is where he was first put on record when he was listed as a member of Club Aachener Casino in 1826 with his dates of origin and the professional title of cloth manufacturer . A year later, Bischoff founded the cloth factory Schwamborn & Bischoff with Engelbert Schwamborn, who was of the same age and whom he had come to appreciate in the casino, which was taken over by the cloth factory Pastor in 1856 after he ended his business relationship with Schwamborn. Bischoff also founded his own cloth factory in the area of ​​the Kapuzinergraben on the course of the Paunell and set up another one in the Stoltenhoffmühle in Eschweiler , which he acquired in 1833 , which he enlarged in 1836 and used as a fulling mill until 1843 . Soon Bischoff's company, which was later renamed “JA Bischoff & Söhne” , was one of the most important in the area and he himself took on various important positions in addition to managing the company.

For example, Johann Arnold Bischoff was elected a local councilor in 1846 and succeeded his brother-in-law Eduard van Gülpen, son of the cloth manufacturer Joseph van Gülpen , as president of the commercial court in 1850 and held this office until his death. In 1855 he was elected to the board of the Aachen and Munich fire insurance companies and three years later to the board of the Aachen Association for the Promotion of Labor . In these functions, Bischoff belonged to a group of important Aachen personalities in 1858. a. the later statesman Friedrich von Kühlwetter , the insurance entrepreneur Friedrich Adolph Brüggemann , the secret commercial councilor Leopold Scheibler , the spinning mill owner Johann Friedrich Pastor and the director of the Rhenania chemical factory in Stolberg belonged to Friedrich Wilhelm Hasenclever , which from 1858 as a “private committee for the establishment of a polytechnic school in Aachen “had decisively advocated, planned and supported the construction of the new Polytechnic, so that on May 15, 1865 the foundation stone of the later RWTH Aachen was laid. For this commitment, on the day of the opening, i.e. on October 10, 1870, he was awarded the title of a secret council of commerce , after having been appointed councilor of commerce a few years earlier.

In addition, Bischoff was a member of both the administrative council of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and the administrative council of the royal management of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrorter Eisenbahn .

In his private life, like his father, Bischoff devoted himself to agriculture and cattle breeding and for this purpose acquired the Schönforst and Weide estates in the Aachen-Forst district , and the Driescher Hof knight's fief , which belonged to the imperial abbey of Kornelimünster and then belonged to the Dominican monastery in Aachen . He transferred this in a will of April 11, 1858 as a non-profit foundation of the poor administration of the city of Aachen. However, the courtyard could not be preserved even in the context of the later post-war development of the surrounding housing estate of the same name. To this day, the city is the sponsor of the Bischoff Foundation and manages the foundation's assets in trust. The aim of the foundation funds is a Christian upbringing for the descendants of the five sons of Johann Arnold Bischoff and to guarantee the necessary training grants.

To protect the interests of the Bischoff family vis-à-vis the foundation administered by the city of Aachen and to maintain family cohesion, the current descendants of Johann Arnold Bischoff established the “Bischoff Familienverband e. V. ” , whose statutes were entered on March 21, 2005 in the register of associations of the Aachen district court.

family

Johann Arnold Bischoff was married to Hermine Cornelia, b. Claus (1801–1836), who gave birth to seven sons, most recently triplets, whose mother died 18 days later as a result of the consequences of their birth. Two of the seven sons, including one of the triplets, died in childhood, whereas the sons Ernst Albert (1831–1901), later also commercial judge and royal councilor, and Johann Arnold junior (* 1836) and Gustav (1836–1871) in the father's company got involved. The Johann Arnold Bischoff family found their final resting place in the family crypt in the Aachen East Cemetery , whereby his wife and the two children who died early were given their own grave.

Literature and Sources

• Adolf Bischoff: Contributions to the history of the Bischoff family in Aachen along with some news about the Jörissen, Claus, Haan, Schmidt, Bleibtreu, Everken, Schevastes and Pfingsten families , Aachen 1922
• Ingeborg Schild , Elisabeth Janssen: The Aachen East Cemetery . Mayersche Buchhandlung , Aachen 1991, pp. 381–382, ISBN 3-87519-116-1 .
• Ralf Lingens: The Bischoff Foundation in Aachen: its establishment, its development, its local historical, family and legal background , Bernardus-Verlag, Heimbach, vol. 1, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8107-9292-1 , vol. 3, 2012 ISBN 978-3-8107-9294-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stoltenhoffmühle Eschweiler ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.4 MB) 
2. ^ History of the Driescher Hof
3. ↑ Bischoff Foundation  ( 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.  
4. ↑ Family Association Bischoff (PDF; 33 kB)