Johann Georg Wegely

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Johann Georg Wegely (* 1679 or 1680 in Diessenhofen ; † March 1, 1755 in Berlin ) was a Berlin entrepreneur from Switzerland.

Career

Island building (Joh.George Wegely & Sons) on the Inselbrücke around 1775

Johann Georg Wegely went to Berlin at the age of 22 and married Anna Cleopha Högger, who was also from Switzerland, in 1798. The family received citizenship in Berlin in 1711. In 1723 he founded a woolen factory in the spinning house on the island in the Spree near the Inselbrücke. The island property was connected to the An der Fischerbrücke road by backfilling . In 1725 he expanded his business by building a manufacturing house at Fischerbrücke 2 , the so-called island building.

In 1747 he acquired two houses on Königstrasse / corner of Hinter den Baraquen and Casernen and had Christian August Naumann build a new building in their place . From 1737, his sons Wilhelm Caspar Wegely and Johann Andreas Wegely (1721–1771) were co-owners of what is now Berlin's largest woolen manufacturer. After Wegely 's death the business was continued by the sons as Joh. George Wegely & Sons . His grandsons Carl Jacob (1745 – after 1791) and Johann Georg (1748 – after 1833), the sons of Wilhelm Caspar, ran the woolen factory from 1764 to the 1790s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gernot Ernst, Ute Laur-Ernst: The city of Berlin in printmaking 1570–1870, vol. 2 . 1st edition. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86732-055-9 , pp. 308 f .
  2. ↑ Helmut Riege (Ed.): Klopstock Briefe 1783-1794 . de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1999, p. 466 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Wegely, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wegely, Johann George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Entrepreneur in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH 1679 or 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Diessenhofen
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1755
Place of death Berlin