Johann Jakob Doertenbach

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Johann Jakob Doertenbach the Elder (* 1575 in Dornstetten ; † September 3, 1638 in Nuremberg ) was a German businessman. He can be regarded as the forefather of the Doertenbach entrepreneurial family, which has been successful over many generations.

Life

Johann Jakob Doertenbach was a son of Peter and Magdalena Doertenbach from Dornstetten, where Peter Doertenbach was mayor. He moved to Calw around 1600 . Johann Jakob Doertenbach was one of the initiators of the Calwer Zeughandelscompagnie and thus promoted the industrialization of Württemberg. The suggestion for this came from Johann Valentin Andreä . Johann Jakob Doertenbach was also involved in the founding of the Christian God-loving Society, which was also suggested by Andreä.

Calwer armaments company

During Doertenbach's time, Calw became the center of fabric production and processing in the northern Black Forest. The Calwer Compagnie placed the linen weavers from the surrounding villages under their protection, took care of the training of the offspring, promoted the import of foreign wool and the export of dyed finished goods and achieved a leading position in the market in southern and temporarily also in eastern Europe. The Duke of Württemberg gladly made use of the armaments company's financial strength. During Johann Jakob Doertenbach's lifetime, Calw was about half the size of Stuttgart and financially very influential.

Christian Friedrich Sattler reported in his history of the duchy under the reign of the dukes 12 , which appeared in Tübingen in 1782 , that in 1622 “the dyer's and cloth-making company in Calw, namely Johann Jacob Doertenbach […], were punished for having made bad money introduced their trade in the duchy, the duke compares himself with the same, that they get the bad money brought into the city by the burgers at Eßlingen and Weyl out of the country again [...] “The Calwer blanket and Tuchfabriken AG, which existed until 1997, emerged.

The Zeughandelscompagnie was not only a trading center, but also developed into a center of Württemberg pietism . The descendants of Johann Jakob Doertenbach were also active here. According to Hartmut Lehmann, "the social exclusivity of the company also served as an external framework for the religious private meetings in Calw." A dispute over religious and ethical issues had flared up, especially between Mose Dörtenbach and Dean Johann Philipp Zeller. “The Dörtenbach, who had probably already converted to Pietism in Schertlin's time,” vehemently revolted against Zeller, who announced his orthodox views from the pulpit and thus snubbed the Calw merchants: “Mose Dörtenbach and his friends stayed away from the church and held their own devotional hours . In 1713 the investigative commission had to be sent to Calw. "

progeny

Johann Jakob Doertenbach the Elder was married to Anna Geissel from Calw for the first time. From this marriage came the son Moses. In his second marriage, Johann Jakob Doertenbach was married to Catharina Kaupp. Doertenbach's descendants included the politician Johann Georg Doertenbach , the theologian Johann Jakob Doertenbach the Younger and Susanne Sophie Zahn, née. Horn, the mother of Christian Jakob Zahn . The Doertenbach & Co. bank, originally in Stuttgart, now based in Frankfurt am Main , traces its origins back to Johann Jakob Doertenbach. Johann Jakob Doertenbach's grandson Mose Doertenbach and Johann Georg Zahn founded the company Mose Doertenbach & Compagnie in Calw in 1721; an offshoot of this business was Zahn & Nopper.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date of death is controversial, cf. merkelstiftung.de
  2. ↑ boa-bw.de (PDF; 621 kB)
  3. ↑ wiki-de.genealogy.net
  4. ↑ doertenbach.de
  5. ↑ medienzentrum-bb.de ( Memento of the original from January 22, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.medienzentrum-bb.de
  6. ↑ Christian Friedrich Sattler: History of the Duchy under the Government of the Dukes 12 , Tübingen 1782, p. 177
  7. ↑ wabw.uni-hohenheim.de
  8. ↑ Hartmut Lehmann: Max Weber's "Protestant Ethics". Contributions from the perspective of a historian . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996, ISBN 978-3-525-33575-8 , p. 78 f.
  9. ^ Theodor Schön:  Zahn, Christian Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 663 f.
  10. ↑ wabw.uni-hohenheim.de
personal data
SURNAME Doertenbach, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dörtenbach, Johann Jakob; Doertenbach, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, founder of the Calwer Zeughandelscompagnie
DATE OF BIRTH 1575
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornstetten
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1638
Place of death Nuremberg