Johann Heinrich Staub

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Johann Heinrich Staub, oil portrait

Johann Heinrich Staub (* 1781 in Hombrechtikon , † 1854 in Altenstadt near Geislingen an der Steige ) was a Swiss textile industrialist in Württemberg.

In 1852 he founded one of the first cotton mills in Wuerttemberg in Altenstadt, which was continued by his sons after his death in 1854. In 1857, Staub's son Arnold Staub founded a spinning and weaving mill in Kuchen , which in 1881 became part of the “Süddeutscheotton-Industrie” (SBI) stock corporation.

Life

Johann Heinrich Staub was born in 1781 in Hombrechtikon on Lake Zurich in Switzerland. His father Rudolf Staub from Herrliberg was a farmer and belonged to the local upper class as a church caretaker of the Reformed community. Rudolf Staub's brother Hans Heinrich Staub ran the cloth factory "Heinrich Staub & Sons, Cotton Manufacture and Trade" in the nearby Männedorf.

Switzerland

In 1809 Johann Heinrich Staub settled in St. Gallen. Six years later in 1815 he married Anna Magdalene Steinmann, the daughter of a wealthy butcher and fur trader in St. Gallen. Since 1816, Staub had a commission business, which Johann Heinrich Honegger from Stäfa joined in 1817.

In 1823, Staub and Honegger founded a cotton mill in the Sorntal near Hauptwil. The company developed well, and in 1831 Hans Rudolf Wälti from Richterswil joined the company as a partner. In 1838 Honegger and Wälti Staub's share and continued to run the business alone.

From 1835, Staub was one of several partners in the Wild, Solivo & Comp company. in Baden in the canton of Aargau. The company built a spinning mill and a weaving mill in Baden. In 1846/1847 the company operated 31,000 spindles and 180 looms. After 1848, Staub's son Arnold Staub was director of the company Wild, Solivo & Comp., Afterwards he was director of the cotton spinning and weaving mill in Arlen near Rielasingen and then director of the company Ziegler & Cie. in Winterthur.

Altenstadt

In 1852 Johann Heinrich Staub left the company Wild, Solivo & Comp. out. Following the example of many other Swiss entrepreneurs, the 70-year-old wanted to set up his own spinning mill in neighboring Württemberg to bypass the customs barriers of the German Customs Union . One of his reasons for founding his own company may have been concern for the professional existence of his sons working in the industry. After a tour of places in Württemberg with hydropower, Staub decided on Altenstadt as the location of his factory.

In 1852, through the mediation of Daniel Straub , the founder of the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF) , he acquired a plot of land with hydropower on the Fils and founded the company "Mechanical Cotton Spinning JH Staub & Sons" with his sons Arnold and Emil. According to Georg von Morlok's plans , he had his factory and workers' residential buildings built at today's Staubstrasse 48 and 50, and in 1853 the “mansion” at Staubstrasse 52, which served him and his family as a residence. Most of the machines required came from England, which was a leader in the production of spinning machines. Half of the required capital of 410,938 guilders was provided by Staub and his sons Emil and Arnold, while they covered the rest with bank loans. Initially the company employed 150 workers. The number of spindles operated increased from 4,000 in 1853 to 18,180 at the end of 1854.

  • Factory building of the mechanical cotton spinning mill JH Staub & Sons in Altenstadt, 1855.

  • Manor House, 2018.

Retirement

Graves of the Staub family in the Altenstadt cemetery.

While the company grew rapidly, Johann Heinrich Staub died two years after it was founded in Altenstadt in 1854 at the age of 75. His wife survived him by 7 years and died in 1861. After the death of their father, the sons had a private cemetery built on the site of what is now the Altenstadt cemetery on Friedensstrasse. Around an obelisk with the inscription "Gravesite of the Staub family" lie five graves, including the graves of Staub and his wife. Arnold Staub erected the crypt of the Staub family in the private cemetery in 1881, in which he and his second wife Emmy Staub, nee. Bourry rest.

Staub's sons Emil and Arnold continued to run the company, which continued to grow under their leadership in the 1850s. In 1857 Arnold Staub founded his own cotton mill in Kuchen. In 1861 Arnold Staub left the Altenstadt company and his brother Emil and his mother became the sole owners. In 1871 Arnold took over the over-indebted company following a foreclosure auction. Even under Arnold Staub, the company's decline continued.

Due to the excessive indebtedness of the Kuchen company, it was converted into the Süddeutscheotton-Industrie AG (SBI) in 1881. Dust then withdrew to Altenstadt. When bankruptcy proceedings were to be opened against the Altenstadt-based company in 1882, Arnold Staub committed suicide. In 1883, SBI took over the Altenstadt company as a branch. In 1972 the branch was shut down. In 1974 the industrial buildings were demolished. The Michelberg Gymnasium, the Michelberghalle and the Schubart Realschule were built on the site. The manor house has been preserved to this day.

family

Portrait of the Johann Heinrich Staub family, 1834. From left: Arnold, Gustav, Anna Magdalene Staub, geb. Steinmann, Emil, Johann Heinrich Staub, Theodor and Emilie.

In 1815 Johann Heinrich Staub married Anna Magdalene Steinmann (1791–1861), the daughter of a wealthy butcher and fur trader in St. Gallen. The marriage resulted in 5 children:

  • Theodor Staub (1819–?), Spinning mill manufacturer, for a long time as a merchant in Brazil, from 1855 in Altenstadt, partner in the Staub & Sons company. In 1871 he moved to Heilbronn with his wife and 4 children.
  • Gustav Staub (1820–1894), portrait painter, lived in Stuttgart from 1857 to 1869, where his brother Arnold also lived between 1859 and 1868. He then moved to Heilbronn, where his brother Theodor lived and where he died in 1894 as a single man.
  • Arnold Staub (1820–1882), spinning mill manufacturer in Altenstadt and Kuchen.
  • Emilie Staub (1822–1890).
  • Emil Staub (1826–?), Spinning mill manufacturer, partner and owner of the Staub & Sons company from 1861 to 1871.

Honors

  • In Geislingen an der Steige a street is called Dust Street. The manor house (Staubstraße 52) is on the street and the Michelberg-Gymnasium, Michelberghalle (both Staubstraße 50) and Schubart-Realschule (Staubstraße 48) are on the former site of the spinning mill.

literature

  • Karlheinz Bauer: History of the city of Geislingen an der Steige. Volume 2: From 1803 to the present. Constance: Thorbecke, approx. 1975, pages 315-316, 319, 337, 347.
  • Christel Köhle-Hezinger (editor); Walter Ziegler (editor): "The glorious history of our factory": on the history of the village and the cotton mill cake. Weissenhorn: Konrad, 1991, pages 59-62, 65-78.
  • Georg von Morlok: Collection of executed rural buildings. Designed and published by Georg Morlok, Royal Württemberg Railway Construction Inspector. Esslingen: Weychardt, 1855, sheet 1–3.
  • Wilfried Setzler: Of people and machines: industrial culture in Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1998, page 126.

Web links

Commons : Arnold Staub  - Collection of Pictures

Footnotes

  1. ↑ # Köhle-Hezinger 1991 , page 59.
  2. ↑ # Köhle-Hezinger 1991 , pp. 59-61.
  3. ↑ # Köhle-Hezinger 1991 , page 70.
  4. ↑ #Morlok 1855 .
  5. ↑ # Köhle-Hezinger 1991 , pp. 72-73.
  6. ↑ # Köhle-Hezinger 1991 , pp. 70-74.
  7. ↑ # Köhle-Hezinger 1991 , page 130.
  8. ↑ # Köhle-Hezinger 1991 , page 124.
  9. ↑ # Köhle-Hezinger 1991 , pages 126-133, 318, #Bauer 1975 , pages 320-324.
  10. ↑ # Köhle-Hezinger 1991 , page 76, 78.
  11. ^ Stuttgart address books 1857–1868.
personal data
SURNAME Staub, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss textile industrialist in Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Hombrechtikon
DATE OF DEATH 1854
Place of death Altenstadt