Johann Caspar Brüninghaus

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Johann Caspar Brüninghaus (born October 20, 1791 in Brüninghausen near Lüdenscheid ; † December 16, 1863 in Werdohl ) was a German entrepreneur.

Life

He came from the Reidemeister family Brüninghaus. This was commercially active in iron processing and trading and also ran a considerable amount of agriculture. The father was Johann Peter Brüninghaus (1756–1809). He himself married Anna Bertram in 1816 and Sophie Auguste Adriani in 1822. A number of offspring resulted from the marriage.

Brüninghaus attended the Rector's School in Lüdenscheid. He then completed a commercial apprenticeship in Bremen . Together with his brother Peter Brüninghaus, after the death of their father and grandfather in 1810, he took over a number of shares in hammer mills and the Brüninghaus Brothers company. In 1828 he had the first wire roller built in the Lüdenscheid district. The hammer mills, wire rollers and trading companies belonging to the family were merged from 1832 under the Brüninghaus company.

Brüninghaus was a member of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament in 1833/1837 .

After Johann Caspar Brüninghaus suffered a stroke in 1841, the joint company was split up. Johann Caspar Brüninghaus mainly got the raw steel and horizontal hammers . For the further development of his operations he entered into a connection with the Geck company. After the construction of the Ruhr-Sieg Railway , he moved to Werdohl in 1855. During his lifetime, his sons founded a new factory with a partner, Brüninghaus & Co. Werdohl. The later steelworks Brüninghaus eventually merged with the Krupp Group .

Trivia

Brüninghaus is the namesake of the newly designed Brüninghaus-Platz in Werdohl, which was inaugurated on May 5, 2017.

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Brüninghaus-Platz in Werdohl the day after the inauguration

literature

  • German Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. 2. Munich, 2005 p. 123.
  • Gunnar Teske: Johann Caspar (1791–1863) and Peter (1794–1865) Brüninghaus. In: Ralf Stremmel, Jürgen Weise (eds.): Bergisch-Märkische entrepreneurs of early industrialization. Münster, 2004 pp. 319-350.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inauguration of Brüninghaus-Platz and Stadtspange (accessed on May 7, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Brüninghaus, Johann Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Brüninghausen
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1863
Place of death Werdohl