Josef Neven DuMont

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Josef August Hubert Neven DuMont (born August 13, 1857 in Cologne ; † October 31, 1915 in Cologne-Marienburg ) was a German lawyer , member of the Provincial Parliament of the Prussian Rhine Province , publisher and chairman of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce .

Life

Origin and career

The Catholic Josef Neven was born as the son of the merchant in mining products, August Libert Neven (born August 13, 1832 in Cologne, † September 7, 1896 in Hohwald (Le Hohwald) / Alsace) and Christina Henriette Maria DuMont (born January 31, 1836 in Cologne; † February 20, 1909 ibid) in Röhrergasse 23, born in the immediate vicinity of the Court of Appeal . After attending high schools in Cologne and Saargemünd , he began to study law at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1877 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg and in 1878 was one of the founders of the Corps Suevia Strasbourg . As inactive , he moved to the University of Leipzig and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . Shortly after receiving his doctorate as Dr. iur. at the University of Jena (1880) he passed the trainee exam in Berlin . He was then admitted to the higher court . In Strasbourg he served as a one-year volunteer with the Uhlans . In Strasbourg he met his future wife Anna Mahler.

With the death of his uncle Ludwig DuMont (October 1880), who until then had been the publisher of the newspaper, his father August Neven DuMont took over the sole management of the house of M. DuMont Schauberg . At the same time, Josef Neven left the Prussian judicial service, returned to Cologne and devoted himself to newspaper production under the guidance of his father and older employees. After the death of his father, he continued to run the Kölnische Zeitung publishing house together with his younger brother Alfred Neven DuMont .

family

Grave of the Neven DuMont family in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

Josef Neven, who in 1882 was allowed to take the family name DuMont in addition to his birth name and use it, married Anna Mahler in Baden-Baden in 1883 (born October 16, 1862 in London; † May 22, 1925 in Cologne-Bayenthal in the hospital) . Her son August Neven DuMont (publisher, 1887) followed his father in the management of the publishing house. According to a design by the architect Paul Pott (1912), Josef Neven DuMont had a villa built in the "Queen Elisabeth Style" in 1913 and 1914 in the Cologne garden suburb Marienburg, Parkstrasse 5 , which he only survived completion by a year. He died on October 31, 1915 in Marienburg as a result of a car accident; previously he had an accident on October 20, 1915 on the way to his publishing house in Breite Strasse  76/78. He was buried in the family grave in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 63a).

Political activity

As a member of the National Liberal Party , Neven DuMont was a member of its board in the Rhine Province as managing director and treasurer , and as a delegate to the central association in Berlin. From 1892 until his death he was a representative of the I. class voters town councilor in Cologne, at the same time from 1907 Group Managing Director Deputy Chairman and from 1912. He was a member of the Provincial Parliament from 1900 to 1912. Shortly before his death, he was re-elected to the Landtag, but the legislative period had not yet started. As a city council member, Josef Neven DuMont was also chairman of the “Stadtcölnische Versicherungskasse against unemployment and immobility”. Neven DuMont supported the government's foreign policy course , with which he kept in close contact.

Memberships and social engagement

Josef Neven DuMont took an active part in the development of his hometown in many ways. As a long-time member of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce, he was one of the sponsors of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsarchiv , which was finally set up in 1906 and whose archive building he supported with a foundation . From 1909 to 1915 he was President of the Chamber of Commerce. Associated with this was his membership in the “Permanent Committee” of the German Trading Conference , to which he had been a member since November 8, 1909. From February 20, 1913, he chaired the “Special Committee for Transport”. In addition, Neven DuMont was also chairman of the “Association for the Organization of Festivals” in Cologne, honorary chairman of the Cologne branch of the “German Society for Merchant Recreational Homes”, board member of the branch association of the “Hansabundes für Gewerbe, Handel und Industrie” and board member of the “ Verein German newspaper publisher ”. As a founder he also appeared in favor of the "Association for Holiday Colonies" (1910) and in favor of the "Association for Day Care Centers".

Awards

  • Characterization as a Kommerzienrat (between 1899 and 1904)
  • Characterization as a secret commercial councilor (between 1904 and 1913)
  • Red Eagle Order IV Class (between 1904 and 1913)
  • Prussian Commander's Cross 1st Class (between 1904 and 1913)
  • Honorary member of the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1857, certificate no. 2535
  2. ^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, registry office Cologne IV, deaths, 1915, document no. 1275
  3. ↑ a b c d Stadt-Anzeiger zur Kölnische Zeitung, evening edition, No. 509 of November 2, 1913
  4. ^ A b c Ulrich S. Soénius, Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personenlexikon.
  5. ^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1836, certificate no.232
  6. ^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, registry office Cologne I, deaths, 1909, certificate no. 226
  7. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 102/54; 103/4
  8. ↑ a b c Ulrich S. Soénius: New German Biography
  9. ^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, registry office Cologne IV, deaths, 1925, document no.297
  10. ↑ Stadtanzeiger for Kölnische Zeitung No. 509 of November 2, 1915
  11. ↑ a b c Thomas Deres: The Cologne Council. Biographical Lexicon.
  12. ↑ a b Kölnische Zeitung No. 148 of February 11, 1916.
  13. ↑ Greven's address book for the municipality of Cologne, comprehensive: Cologne and the suburbs Bayenthal, Deutz, Ehrenfeld, Lindenthal, Nippes, Riehl, Sülz, Zollstock etc. as well as for the area especially Mülheim am Rhein and Kalk, 45th year, Greven's Cologne address book publishing house, Cologne 1899, Part II, p. 348.
  14. ↑ a b c d Greven’s address book for Cologne and the surrounding area, especially Mülheim am Rhein and Kalk, 50th year, Greven's Cologne address book publisher, Cologne 1904, Part II, p. 442
  15. ↑ a b c Greven’s address book for Cologne and the surrounding area, especially Mülheim am Rhein, 59th year, Greven's Cologne address book publishing house, Cologne 1913, Part II, p. 380
  16. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 100/54
personal data
SURNAME Neven DuMont, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neven DuMont, Josef August Hubert (= full name); Neven, Josef August Hubert (= maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, publisher, member of the provincial parliament and chairman of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1915
Place of death Cologne-Marienburg