Johann Wilhelm Brügelmann

Johann Wilhelm Brügelmann (* 1721 in Elberfeld (today a part of Wuppertal ); † December 31, 1784 there ) was mayor of Elberfeld.

Life

Brügelmann was born the son of the merchant Engelbert Brügelmann (1694-1738) and his wife Maria Magdalena Jacobi (1697-1781) and was baptized on December 14, 1721. He himself married Anna Gertrud Kühnen (1721–1754) in Radevormwald on September 3, 1747, with whom he had four children. The second of these children was Johann Gottfried Brügelmann (1750–1802), the founder of the first factory on the European mainland. After his wife died just a few days after the birth of the last child, he married a second time. This time he married Maria Kersten (1723–1799), a sister of the founders of the Kersten Brothers banking house . With this woman, Brügelmann had two more children, the last one being Carl Friedrich Brügelmann , the mayor of 1792.

Like his father, Brügelmann started out as a merchant in Elberfeld and was elected to the Elberfeld City Council in 1759 and 1760. In 1762 he became mayor and, the following year, city judge of the city of Elberfeld. He was then a member of the council again from 1764 to 1768.

literature

• Edmund Strutz : The pedigree of the Elberfeld mayors and city judges from 1708–1808 . 2nd Edition. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1963, ISBN 3-7686-4069-8 , p. 114 f .

predecessor	Office	successor
Jakob Sombart	Mayor of Elberfeld 1762	Johann Kaspar Eller