Julius Stockhausen (industrialist)

Julius Stockhausen (born April 20, 1851 in Lindlar , † June 12, 1920 in Halle an der Saale , buried on June 17, 1920 in Krefeld ) was a German textile merchant, later an industrialist and chemist .

Life

In 1879 Julius Stockhausen became an authorized signatory in the Crefeld soap factory Müller & Traiser . Just one year later, on November 1st, 1880, he founded the Crefelder soap factory Stockhausen & Traiser KG with Philipp Traiser , a trained soap maker from Württemberg who had been the manager of the Crefeld soap factory since at least 1878 . At the same time the company was taken over by Müller & Traiser and this company was then liquidated. The company's headquarters were at Fischelner Landstrasse 105/107 (now Kölner Strasse ) in Krefeld. The company remained in family ownership, was destroyed in the Second World War, rebuilt and existed until 1960. The company premises were sold to the city of Krefeld and are now part of the municipal hospital .

From 1880 to 1882 Julius Stockhausen and Philipp Traiser were joint managing partners (general partners). Traiser died in 1882, until 1920 Julius Stockhausen was the sole general partner, both commercial and technical manager of the company. In 1907 a branch of Stockhausen & Traiser started operations at Bäkerpfad 25 as Plant II. In 1912 Julius Stockhausen gave Plant II to his four sons, who named it "Chemische Fabrik Stockhausen & Cie." On December 1, 1912 . became independent and later also became active in the field of rayon .

supporting documents

1. ↑ K. Götze and F. Hilgers: About the importance of the avirage for the technical spinning behavior of rayon. In: Chemisches Zentralblatt 1943, first half of the year No. 12, p. 1345