Johann Friedrich Lochner
Johann Friedrich Lochner (born September 11, 1798 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 26, 1886 in Aachen ) was a German entrepreneur.
Live and act
The son of the bank clerk Johann Tobias Lochner (1757–1848), who came from Nuremberg and worked in Frankfurt, and Maria Margarethe Baum (1773–1845), daughter of the civil servant in the higher Prussian provincial administration Johann Conrad Baum, just like his father initially received a commercial Apprenticeship in what later became the Bethmann bank , which was founded in 1748 by the Bethmann family of merchants and bankers under the name of the Bethmann brothers. During the time of Lochner's apprenticeship, the business activities of the Bethmann brothers still focused on trading in colonial goods, textiles and paints .
After training at Bethmann, Lochner initially worked as a businessman in Naples , where he represented the interests of the Aachen cloth factory Edmund Joseph Kelleter. After his shorter stay in Italy than planned, Lochner then worked for the factory in St. Petersburg , now run by his son Johann Tilmann Kelleter . In 1830 Lochner moved to the company's headquarters, the Wylre'schen Haus in Aachen, where he soon met and married his future wife Julie Erckens (1810–1862), daughter of the cloth manufacturer Johann Melchior Erckens (1782–1852) from Burtscheid .
Soon after his marriage, Lochner gave up working for the Kelleter company and from January 1, 1831 became co-owner (Associé) and managing director of his father-in-law's cloth factory, which now operated as Johann Erckens Söhne & Lochner in Burtscheid near Aachen . He successfully managed the company for 25 years. After Johann Melchior Ercken's death in 1852, Johann Friedrich Lochner left as a partner in 1857 and the company was continued by Johann Melchior Erckens' son Oskar Ercken under the sole responsibility of Johann Ercken's sons.
In the same year Lochner acquired the villa and cloth factory van Houtem from the heirs of the Aachen cloth manufacturer Ignaz van Houtem in Aachen. The cloth factory van Houtem founded in 1773 by Heinrich van Houtem , which had had a steam engine since 1830 , still had a total of 265 employees in 1836 (71 of them under the age of 14) and after the untimely death of Ignaz van Houtem in 1812 it was initially from his wife was continued. In order not to be entirely dependent on steam power, the company also operated a flushing and roughing roller mill , known as the Kuckertzmühle. After the death of the company owner in 1839, the factory went into decline and was threatened with closure. Johann Friedrich Lochner was able to prevent this and until the handover to his son Emil Lochner at the end of the 1870s , who later adapted the company to the new era through serious changes, helped it to flourish again. Until the outbreak of the First World War , the company was one of the largest textile factories in Aachen.
The entrance portal to the villa and factory area, the so-called Lochnertor , as well as the adjoining coach house on Karlsgraben in Aachen, which also belongs to the Lochner estate, are still preserved today; Both structures have been extensively renovated in recent years and placed under monument protection. In the immediate vicinity, a street was renamed Lochnerstrasse in memory of the family.
With advancing age, Johann Friedrich Lochner, meanwhile Royal Prussian Kommerzienrat and member of the Club Aachener Casino founded in 1805, withdrew more and more from the operative business of the cloth factory and transferred the responsibility to his sons Emil (1832-1900), Fritz ( 1835–1904) and finally to his youngest son Rudolf Lochner (1847–1918). As a 76-year-old reindeer, Lochner wrote the book The solution to the most important as yet unexplained problems in nature (Mayer Verlag Cöln / Leipzig, 1874). He also loved music, promoted it and made music himself. Johann Friedrich Lochner, who had another son and three daughters, was looked after by his youngest daughter Emma (1843–1920) after the death of his wife Julie. Julie Lochner's grave is located in the old, listed Protestant cemetery Güldenplan on Monheimsallee in Aachen.
literature
- Hermann Friedrich Macco : Family tree of the Lochner family from Nuremberg , 1906.
- Johann Siebmacher's Heraldry, Volume No. 61.
- Hartmut Schainberg: The Belgian Influence of Early Industrialization in the Aachen Area, approx. 1820–1860 (PDF; 4.6 MB) , Dissertation Trier 1997.
- Trust, business groups and social capital: building a Protestant entrepreneurial network in nineteenth-century Naples , in Journal of Modern Italian Studies 13, 2008, pp. 219-236.
- Thomas Lochner: The story of the Aachen cloth manufacturer Johann Friedrich Lochner and his family , Schnell-Verlag, Warendorf 2013.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Pohle: "Proprietaire de la plus belle manufacture de la ville": Ignaz Servatius Heinrich Jacob van Houtem (1764-1812) . In: Paul Thomes, Peter M. Quadflieg (ed.): Entrepreneurs in the Aachen region - between the Maas and the Rhine . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-402-13107-7 , pp. 24-47.
- ↑ Lochner's earnings in the vicinity of his factory. ( 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lochner, Johann Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1886 |
| Place of death | Aachen |