Johann Classen-Kappelmann

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Johann Classen-Kappelmann (born December 26, 1816 in Sinzig , † May 28, 1879 in Cologne ) was a German industrialist and liberal politician .

Johann Classen-Kappelmann

Life

After completing his commercial training, Classen-Kappelmann moved to Cologne in 1834 and joined a trading company in 1844. In 1853 he took over the Rheinische Spinnerei und Tricotfabrik and built it up into a successful company. He also ran a factory for making cologne . In Sielsdorf he took over the old mill there and turned the former paper factory and, since 1851, a wool dyeing factory into the first industrial company with 22 employees (1861) by installing the first steam engine in the mayor's office in Efferen / Hürth. The mill was sold in 1869 and a carded yarn spinning mill was set up. In Luxembourg , Classen-Kappelmann owned a stake in a textile company. After he was only a member of the Lindenthal municipal council , he was elected to the Cologne city ​​council in 1849 .

In 1860 he joined the Cologne Chamber of Commerce . Here he was responsible for the manufactured goods trade and for the jersey production. From 1861 to 1868 he represented the Cologne Chamber of Commerce on the permanent committee of the German Trade Conference in Berlin . In 1860 he was one of the founders of a limited partnership that aimed to host an annual industrial show in Cologne. He was a member of the Cologne Trade Association and co-founder and chairman of the Economic Association for Rhineland and Westphalia .

As an active local politician, he campaigned, among other things, for a municipal water and gas works , in 1873 suggested the cancellation of the municipal funds for the Corpus Christi procession and spoke out in favor of lowering the minimum income for exercising the right to vote from 400 to 200 thalers . As early as 1865 he advocated the demolition of the fortifications of the city of Cologne .

In 1863 and 1865 he organized the so-called parliamentary parties in Cologne, which were organized by the opposition Rhenish-Westphalian delegates. While the festival in 1863 went according to the organizers, the festival in 1865 ended in a political debacle . The festival in Cologne Zoo was forbidden by the Prussian Cologne commanders, General Robert von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf , and Classen-Kappelmann was supposed to be arrested. On the advice of his political friends, he fled to Verviers, Belgium . Afterwards the Lord Mayor of Bonn refused the Cologne deputy Classen-Kappelmann to participate in the inauguration of a monument in Bonn. In the Cologne population, however, he experienced great support for his political convictions and so he was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives in July 1866 .

Grave of the Classen-Kappelmann family (back)

In 1869 he was elected as president of the society "Verein" in Cologne , which was supposed to unite all liberals. After the founding of the German Progressive Party , he headed it in Cologne. Until his death in 1879 he was a local representative of Lindenthal and a city ​​councilor for Cologne. He was considered an active and quite contentious local politician .

Under the pseudonym Johann von der Ahr , Classen-Kappelmann wrote poems in the 1840s and was the editor of numerous political and commercial treatises. He was an active member of several Cologne associations, including as chairman or honorary chairman of the Volksbildungsverein , a founding member of the general gymnastics club and a board member of the reading society .

Classen-Kappelmann died in 1879 after a long illness at the age of 62 at Gut Weyerthal. He was buried at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. P, between lit. K and L). The burial site was later taken over by the Ibscher family as a sponsorship grave and the original inscription was transferred to the back of the tomb.

Honor

In Cologne's Lindenthal district, Classen-Kappelmann's life's work was honored with the naming of a street. The citizens of Frankfurt donated a silver column to Classen-Kappelmann in 1866 because he campaigned against the Prussian takeover of Frankfurt.

Works

  • A "political character" of the modern age , Verlag Druck und Commisions-Verlag von JR Bachem in Cologne, 1877, 56 pp.
  • Speech by the Member of Parliament, Mr. Classen-Kappelmann, as well as the complete negotiations on Petition II 946 from Frankfurt a. M., concerning the war burdens: verbatim copy from the shorthand report of the 56th session of the Berlin House of Representatives, on January 22, 1867, Cologne 1867, 71 pp.
  • The commercial calculator
  • Hartkort's birthplace on Gut Hartkorten in Westphalia , Die Gartenlaube, 1877, p. 113f.

literature

  • Ernst Ziel (Ed.): A good citizen , Die Gartenlaube, Issue 25, Ernst Keil, Leipzig 1879, p. 428
  • Thomas Parent: Passive Resistance in the Prussian Constitutional Conflict. The Cologne parliamentary festivals , (Diss. Phil, Cologne 1982, 39 ff.) History in Cologne. Volume 13, Issue 1, December 1983, DME-Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 978-3894982034
  • Konrad Adenauer, Völker Gröbe : Streets and squares in Lindenthal , JP Bachem, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7616-1018-1 , p. 34f.

Web links

Wikisource: A Good Citizen  - Sources and Full Texts
Wikisource: Classen-Kappelmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Konrad Adenauer, Volker Gröbe: Lindenthal. The development of the Cologne suburb , JPBachem, p. 73
  2. ↑ Sielsdorf's story in Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Rhein-Erft, from November 15, 2006 (accessed January 2016)
  3. ↑ Manfred Faust: The Sielsdorfer Mühle - a surprising chapter of Hürth industrial history in Hürth Heimat, vol. 76 (1997), p. 1 (to 8)
  4. ↑ a b c Ulrich S. Soénius and Jürgen Wilhelm (eds.): Kölner Personenlexikon . Greven, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , pp. 103 .
  5. ^ The festival of the delegates from Rhineland-Westphalia, held in Cologne on July 18 and 19, 1863 , festival report, Verlag Otto Wiegand, Leipzig 1863
  6. ^ The festival of the delegates from Rhineland-Westphalia, held in Cologne on July 22nd and 23rd, 1865 , festival report, Verlag Theodor Lißner, Leipzig 1865
  7. ↑ Eberhard Gothein: Constitutional and economic history of the city of Cöln from the fall of imperial freedom to the establishment of the German Empire , In: Stadt Cöln (ed.): The city of Cöln in the 1st century under Prussian rule 1815 to 1915 , Cöln 1916
  8. ↑ Josef Abt, Joh. Ralf Beines: Melaten - Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 168 f .
  9. ^ Konrad Adenauer and Volker Gröbe: Streets and squares in Lindenthal . JP Bachem, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7616-1018-1 , p. 34 f .
  10. ↑ museenkoeln.de Monument column for Classen-Kappelmann ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 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. , accessed January 23, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / museenkoeln.de
personal data
SURNAME Classen-Kappelmann, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Class Kappelmann, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Sinzig
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1879
Place of death Cologne