Johann Wilhelm Zanders (paper manufacturer, 1795)

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Johann Wilhelm Zanders (born January 12, 1795 in Düsseldorf , † September 4, 1831 in Bergisch Gladbach ) was a German entrepreneur and paper manufacturer . He was the founder of the JW Zanders company .

Life

Johann Wilhelm Zanders came from the Protestant Düsseldorf entrepreneurial family Zanders, whose male members had long belonged to academic professions. His father Johann Wilhelm Gottfried Zanders was the first city medic and medical advisor in the Bergische royal seat . He determined that Zanders would first begin practical preparation in forestry at the Forstrat Andreae in Cologne after graduating from high school. From May 12, 1816, he studied political science in Göttingen for three semesters. In the winter semester of 1817, he moved to Marburg to study forest sciences . After graduation, he began his practical work at the Königsforst forestry in Bensberg (at that time still an independent municipality). Later he married Julie Müller , the daughter of the paper manufacturer Gustav Müller from the Dombacher Mühle, today's paper museum Alte Dombach , in Bergisch Gladbach (not yet connected with Bensberg at that time).

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Already during his studies he showed great interest in book auctions and the acquisition of expensive copperplate printing. During his time in Bensberg, he bought land and houses in Bergisch Gladbach, which his uncle Hofrat Fauth sold to control the decline of his paper mill. In 1822 he moved to Bergisch Gladbach as a freelance trader, after having bought two more small estates there. On July 16, 1824, he and his uncle's son, Gottfried Fauth, founded the new company Fauth & Zanders in the Schnabelsmühle. His first activity consisted in building a laboratory and a tall dry house on the Russian model . The introduction of double-entry bookkeeping, an annual inventory and presentation of the final invoices also showed the merchant in him. With the death of Gottfried Fauth on February 11, 1829, the company dissolved again. Zanders quickly took over the share from Fauth and founded the JW Zanders paper mill on July 28, 1829.

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Drawing of the Schnabelsmühle around 1850 by Alexe Altenkirch

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Contributions to the history of the Zanders family, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 22
  2. ↑ a b c Festschrift Hundred Years of JW Zanders Paper Factory 1829–1929, Bergisch Gladbach 1929

literature

  • Ferdinand Schmitz : The paper mills and paper makers of the Bergisch Strundet valley , Bergisch Gladbach 1921
  • Egon Wolff, Edgar Königs and others: 125 years of JW Zanders 1829 - 1954 . Bergisch Gladbach 1954
  • Klara van Eyll : 400 years of paper mills on the go . Bergisch Gladbach 1982
  • Heinz Koch: Zanders, From the history of a company , Bergisch Gladbach 1989
personal data
SURNAME Zanders, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and paper manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1831
Place of death Bergisch Gladbach