Johann Wilhelm Fischer

Johann Wilhelm Fischer (* 1779 in Burg an der Wupper , today in Solingen , † 1845 probably in Barmen , today in Wuppertal ) was a cotton manufacturer and banker.

Fischer completed an apprenticeship at the Anhalt & Wagener trading company in Berlin and then worked there for three years as an assistant. From 1802 he worked for the textile publisher Johann Peter Schlickum in Elberfeld , from 1803 mainly from Milan for the purpose of cultivating the Italian market. From 1806 he stayed mainly in Elberfeld. In 1808 he traveled to Paris with the merchant Gerhard Siebel (1784–1831) in order to have Napoléon lift the trade restrictions for the Bergisches Land economy during the continental blockade . The project was unsuccessful. In the same year he married Caroline von Eynern, the daughter of a Barmer merchant. She died in 1812.

As a municipal councilor (= city council) he initiated the expansion of the route from Elberfeld to Sonnborn in 1809 .

In 1812, Fischer founded his own trading house and cloth factory in Elberfeld. After Johanna Carolina Keuchen married in 1814, he took over her father's textile factory. He moves with the family to Barmen . Together with other citizens he founded the "Barmer Kornverein" in 1816, which was supposed to alleviate the famine by buying grain. Fischer described the period of French rule in the Rhineland in his memoirs , which he wrote in 1817. From 1829 to 1833 he was a member of the city ​​council . In addition, he was from 1830 to 1836 deputy member of the city of Barmen in the Rhenish provincial parliament . In 1822, Fischer founded the “Bankhaus Gebrüder Fischer”, which had its origins in the “Nagel & Kemna banking business”. In 1867 the bank became the Barmer Bankverein Hinsberg, Fischer & Comp. and until the merger with Commerzbank AG in 1932 was one of the largest German banking companies.

Fischer and his family settled in a valley of the Klever Bach south of the Wupper. In 1847 his family and the town of Barmen had the footpath in the valley expanded. Since then, the street has been called the Fischertal and the brook the name Fischertaler Bach .

Works

• 1817 - " News from my life "

literature

• Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8