John Haniel
John Eugen Louis Haniel ( from Haniel since 1899 ) (born January 22, 1849 in Ruhrort , † June 11, 1912 in Karlsbad ) was a Prussian district administrator , mine owner and politician. He was a descendant of the entrepreneur Franz Haniel .
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The youngest son of the entrepreneur Max Haniel (1813–1887) and Friederike, b. Cockerill (1816–1854), daughter of the steel entrepreneur William Cockerill, studied at the TH Aachen and the TH Berlin and graduated as Dr. phil. from. After that he was initially a mountain assessor .
As a student, Haniel wrote a treatise on iron stone deposits in the German Jura Mountains , which was published in the German geological journal for mining, metallurgy and saltworks. This work led to his acceptance as a corresponding member of the k. u. k. Austrian Reichsanstalt . At the same time he published another paper on the sinking in the floating mountains of the Rheinpreußen colliery and later wrote a detailed description of the previously unknown seam deposits in the Horst-Hertener-Mulde , which was published by Bädeker-Verlag in Essen.
Between 1883 and 1895 Haniel served as district administrator in Moers . As such he had the Rhine dams raised after a devastating flood and saw to it that a railway line was built through the entire district in a north-south direction. This railway line between Moers and Duisburg , which Haniel helped initiate , was put into operation in 1903. For this he received the honorary citizenship of Moers in 1904 .
As early as 1894, Haniel moved his main residence to Lorraine , where he managed his estate in Landonvillers , where he successfully introduced cattle breeding in the Lower Rhine region and Dutch grazing. Landonvillers Castle , which Haniel owned and which was later expropriated in 1918, had previously been acquired by Haniel in 1891 and had it redesigned between 1903 and 1906 by the architect Bodo Ebhardt in the Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Romanesque styles . At the same time, he increased his property over the course of time by acquiring several properties in the Kleve, Moers and Teltow districts as well as by purchasing the La Grange Le Mercier monastery and the Vantoux Castle near Metz . Finally, Haniel acquired Rahe Castle in Aachen - Laurensberg from the consular agent Conradin Startz .
In addition, he continued to manage his mine property in the Moers district and worked in other mining companies. Haniel was a member of several mine boards , including those of the Zeche Zollverein , Zeche Rheinpreußen and the Zeche Fröhliche Morgensonne as well as a member of the supervisory board of Gutehoffnungshütte . He left this activity on hold during his service as a Prussian civil servant, but took it up again after leaving the civil service. He also published on mining.
Haniel had been a member of the Economics Council since 1885 and was also a member of the Rhenish provincial parliament . As a member of the free conservative party , he also belonged to the Prussian House of Representatives between 1886 and 1898 .
In 1899 John Haniel was elevated to the Prussian nobility for his services and in 1912 he was appointed a secret councilor.
family
Haniel, whose first marriage was to Fanny Stinnes (1857-1883), a daughter of the shipowner and businessman Johann Gustav Stinnes , married Helene Zurhelle (* 12th July 1885) after her death from childbed fever in Laurensberg's second marriage February 1857 in Laurensberg; † June 22, 1927 in Prien am Chiemsee ), daughter of the landowner Adolf Zurhelle and his wife Clothilde Zurhelle, b. Lochner, who in turn was a daughter of the Aachen cloth manufacturer Johann Friedrich Lochner . The marriage produced five children: the daughters Fanny (* 1886), Frieda (* 1889), Helene (* 1889) and Else (* 1894) as well as the son John Alfred (* 1892), who died shortly after his birth.
See also
Individual evidence
literature
- Biographical handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives: 1867–1918. Edit v. Bernhard Mann with the assistance of v. Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh u. Thomas Kühne, Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 166
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haniel, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haniel, John von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | District administrator, entrepreneur, member of parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ruhrort |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1912 |
| Place of death | Carlsbad |