Julius The Lose

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Julius The Lose

Johann Julius The Losen (born October 6, 1812 in Eupen ; † November 19, 1882 ibid) was a Prussian textile entrepreneur, long-time president of the Eupen Chamber of Commerce and at times district administrator of the Eupen district .

family

Julius The Losen's family had moved to Eupen from Anholt in the Borken district on the Dutch border two generations earlier . Julius's parents were the cloth manufacturer Reiner Bertram The Losen (1778–1847) and Maria Johanna Hüffer (1783–1849), daughter of the cloth manufacturer Johann Gerhard Hüffer. His uncle was Wilhelm Heinrich Franz The Losen (1782-1832), Mayor of Kettenis and from 1823 owner of Libermé Palace .

In 1835 Julius The Losen married his cousin Johanna Franziska Augusta Hüffer (1813–1881), daughter of the cloth manufacturer Anton Wilhelm Hüffer and Elisabeth (Betzi) Hüffer, née Hüffer, who was in turn a sister of Julius' mother Maria Johanna. The marriage resulted in five children, three sons and two daughters.

  • Maria Sophia Hubertine (born March 26, 1839 - † May 6, 1873) ⚭ 1861 Heinrich Thyssen
  • Maria Johanna Hubertine (born January 6, 1842 - † January 30, 1898) ⚭ 1862 August Huffer
  • Emmanuel Hubert August (born December 25, 1843)
  • Ludwig Eduard Hubert Carl (* July 12, 1845 - March 1915) ⚭ 1869 Maria Hermann
  • Carl Julius Hubert (* April 12, 1847 - May 28, 1889) ⚭ 1875 Hermine Eleonore Endemann (* June 12, 1853), parents of District Administrator Walter The Losen

Live and act

After attending the commercial school from 1827 to 1829, The Losen completed a commercial apprenticeship in the cloth factory of his future father-in-law Anton Wilhelm Hüffer and was then taken over into the management. In 1842 his father-in-law and his son transferred the cloth factory to him in equal shares, which initially operated as "Hüffer & Morkramer" until 1864 and then until 1873 as Hüffer & The Losen. Also in 1842 Julius The Losen joined the newly founded Belgian company "Telemach, Michiels & Co." with his father, father-in-law, and other partners, which set up a puddling plant on the left bank of the Inde in Eschweiler-Aue . The economically difficult years of the European Revolutions of 1848/1849 led to payment and order difficulties at "Telemach, Michiels & Co." and The Losen played a key role in negotiations with Belgian banks for cheaper loans and extended payment periods. Both the positive negotiations and the introduction of loan funds by David Hansemann and the revitalized economy from 1849 onwards led to the survival of the company, which in 1852 also became a public limited company with the name " Phönix, anonyme Gesellschaft für Berg- und Hüttenbetriebe “Was transferred under the direction of Anton Wilhelm Hüffer. The Losen has been a member of the management since 1846 and headed the Administrative Council as president.

In addition to his professional obligations, Julius The Losen was heavily involved in local politics and in the Eupen Chamber of Commerce. In 1846 he was commissioned by the acting provisional mayor Amand von Harenne to take over the chairmanship of the Eupen Chamber of Commerce, which had existed since the French era and which in those years was a "consultative chamber for manufactories, factories, arts and crafts" . The Losens' most important achievement was the transformation of this chamber of commerce into a more modern institution, which, after many years of negotiations, was approved on September 12, 1858 by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV as the "Chamber of Commerce for the Eupen District". A year later, The Losen was duly elected President, which he remained until 1880.

On a political level, The Losen had been a member of the city council of Eupen since 1846 and was elected mayor several times. In addition, he sat from 1862 to 1864 for the "Left Center" in the Prussian House of Representatives . He was also a member of the district council from 1851 until his death. As 1st district deputy, he took over the management of the Eupen district from January 16 to July 2, 1866 and in the period from April 26 to September 5, 1868. In his first tenure as District Administrator of the Eupen District, The Losen was primarily responsible for mobilizing the soldiers to be deployed from the Eupen District against Austria in the course of the German War .

Window in St. Nikolaus Eupen with the coats of arms The Losen and Hüffer

For his many services, Julius The Losen was distinguished in 1868 with the characterization as a secret councilor of commerce and in 1872 with the royal Prussian order of the crown of the fourth class. His wife Auguste was awarded the Cross of Merit for Women and Virgins in 1871 as President of the Eupen Women's Association for the care and care of the wounded returning from the Franco-German War of 1870/1871 at Herbesthal train station .

In 1866, Julius The Losen and his wife Augusta gave the parish church of St. Nikolauskirche in Eupen an armored window for the side aisle, on which, among other things, the family crests of the The Losen and Hüffer families are incorporated. In addition, in 1873 they donated an extension to the orphanage on Rotenberg. In the chapel there, which was demolished in 1973, there was also an image of the donor's coat of arms.

Julius The Losen died on November 19, 1882, one year after his wife Auguste. The couple found their final resting place in the city cemetery of Eupen.

literature

  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 323 note 215 .
  • Victor Gielen: Memories of the Geh. Kommerzienrat Joh. Julius The Losen from Eupen , in: Geschichtliches Eupen , Volume IX, pp. 77-86, Markus-Verlag, Eupen 1975.
  • Sebastian Scharte: Prussian - German - Belgian; National Experience and Identity - Life on the German-Belgian Border in the 19th Century ; Waxmann, 2010, short biography on p. 235 and others; ISBN 978-3-8309-2406-7 ( digitized )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Romeyk: The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945
  2. ↑ The Losen-Hüffer coat of arms
personal data
SURNAME The Lose, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES The Losen, Johann Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian textile entrepreneur and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Eupen
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1882
Place of death Eupen