Joseph van Gülpen

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Christian Nikolaus Joseph van Gülpen (born December 6, 1793 in Aachen , † May 21, 1850 in Berlin ) was a German cloth manufacturer and president of the Chamber of Commerce for the cities of Aachen and Burtscheid .

Live and act

The son of the innkeeper from Herzogenrath and leaseholder of the Palatinate Court in Aachen's Peterstrasse, Christian Joseph van Gülpen, and his wife Gertrud Schaeffers completed an apprenticeship as a cloth maker after finishing school . At the age of 22, he joined forces with Johann Heinrich Kesselkaul, two years his senior, in 1815 and they founded the “ Van Gülpen & Kesselkaul ” spinning mill and cloth factory in Aachen's Königstrasse . In addition, van Gülpen rented the Großer Klüppel , where he set up a wool warehouse together with David Hansemann, who was then a wool merchant . The joint venture was crowned with success and ten years later a new and larger factory had to be built in Adalbertstrasse, which was then equipped with a steam engine in 1827. After a business relationship that lasted 23 years, van Gülpen left the company in good friendship in 1838 and set up his own cloth factory in the Wespienhaus at Kleinmarschierstrasse 45 in Aachen, which his son Eduard later relocated to the Obere Müsch estate in Soers in 1867 and the continued there until 1903.

Through van Gülpen's contact with Hansemann, a deep friendship developed between the two and van Gülpen harbored a great admiration for Hansemann's innovative ideas, which inspired him to get involved in many economic, political and social areas as well. Van Gülpen was one of the co-founders of the Aachener Feuerversicherungs-Gesellschaft in 1824, from which the AachenMünchener later developed, and of the Aachen Association for the Promotion of Labor in 1834. Together with Hansemann, van Gülpen sat in a lengthy 1836 in Berlin Negotiations also called for the planned railway line from Cologne to Antwerp , then also known as the "Iron Rhine", to be routed via Aachen. In 1844 he took over as Hansemann's successor as Vice President of the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft and a year later as President of the Commercial Court. In 1848 van Gülpen succeeded the cloth and needle manufacturer Philipp Heinrich Pastor as President of the Chamber of Commerce for the cities of Aachen and Burtscheid. In addition, he was a member of the city council for many years and also represented David Hansemann's line here.

During a business trip to customs negotiations in Berlin in 1850, van Gülpen fell seriously ill and died of the consequences of this illness a few days later. He was transferred to Aachen and found his final resting place in the Aachen Ostfriedhof .

Joseph van Gülpen was married to the Protestant Charlotte Winkler (1788–1842), who was buried because of her faith in the " Cemetery Güldenplan " in the city ​​garden of Aachen . Together with her, he had four sons and four daughters, one of whom was one of his sons, who later became Kommerzienrat Eduard van Gülpen (1820–1882), who took over the cloth factory and moved it to Soers in 1864, where Eduard also set up his summer residence. After the death of his wife Marie Therese Claus (1819–1900), the Wespienhaus was finally given up by the family's heirs. Van Gülpen's grandson, son of his daughter Amalie (* 1819), was the portrait and genre painter Hermann August Philips .

Literature and Sources

  • Ingeborg Schild , Elisabeth Janssen: Der Aachener Ostfriedhof , Verlag Mayersche Buchhandlung , Aachen 1991, p. 396/397, ISBN 3-87519-116-1
  • Wilhelm Leopold Janssen : History of the company "JH Kesselkaul Enkel" (previously JH Kesselkaul and "Van Gülpen und Kesselkaul" until 1838 and "JH Kesselkau" until 1887), cloth factory in Aachen 1815–1940: A contribution to the history of cloth manufacturing in Aachen , Aachen, 1940

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronology Raphaelhöfe ( Memento of the original of July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.raphaelhoefe-soers.de
  2. ↑ Joseph van Gülpen grave (enter name in search column)
  3. ↑ Charlotte van Gülpen grave site (enter name in search column)
personal data
SURNAME Gülpen, Joseph van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gülpen, Christian Nikolaus Joseph van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cloth manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1850
Place of death Berlin