Julius Wurmbach
Julius Wurmbach (born January 14, 1831 in Müsen (today Hilchenbach , Siegerland), † May 17, 1901 in Nervi near Genoa , Italy ) was a royal Prussian councilor and manufacturer in Bockenheim .
marriage
Julius Wurmbach was married to Charlotte Meinhard (born January 3, 1839 in Siegen , † May 1, 1878 in Bockenheim). Her son and later company heir was Julius Heinrich Friedrich Wurmbach jr. (1860–1924), also a German manufacturer and local politician in Frankfurt am Main, whose villa built in Berlin is now the residence of the Federal President of Germany.
Professional development
His father Johann was already the owner of a copper hammer in Müsen, a mining area that was regarded as one of the oldest and most extensive in the Siegerland . From the age of 30, Julius Wurmbach held a large equity stake in the Nieverner Hütte , a former ironworks near Fachbach an der Lahn , near Bad Ems , from 1861 to 1871, for ten years from 1861 to 1871 , where he also worked in management. In 1871 he sold his stake in the Nieverner Hütte. After the proclamation of the Wilhelmine Empire, he founded his own iron foundry, stove and stove factory Julius Wurmbach in Bockenheim in 1872 , incorporated from 1895 and thus part of Frankfurt am Main . The former Kurhessische Bockenheim had previously been successfully occupied by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 with the whole of Kurhessen. The stoves he produced at the time are now traded as antiquarian. The factory also supplied heavy pans and kettles for chemical factories. Later it operated under new owners as Bockenheimer Eisengießerei und Maschinenfabrik GmbH , Solmsstraße 83. After the Second World War it became part of the neighboring apparatus construction company FVS Fritz Voltz Sohn. The 73 m high, 17-storey SCALA office tower in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, City-West, has been on the former premises since 2001.
Honors
He supported the incorporation agreement of April 1, 1895 by Mayor of the City of Frankfurt am Main Franz Adickes (1846–1915) and his Mayor of the City of Bockenheim Dr. jur. Adalbert Hengsberger (1853–1923) also in his role as Vice Mayor of Bockenheim. After the incorporation he was u. a. elected board member of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce.
Among other things, Julius Wurmbach was a member of the "Association for the Establishment of German-Protestant Church Services in Health Resorts eV" founded by Frankfurt's (large) citizens, whose initiator and chairman from 1885 to 1919 was Moritz von Bernus from Frankfurt. This association established four Evangelical-Protestant spa chapels in Catholic Italy. So in 1887 in Gardone on Lake Garda, in 1899 in Capri and in 1901 one in Bordighera on the Riviera and one in Nervi near Genoa. While visiting Nervi, Julius Wurmbach passed away at the age of 70 during the inauguration ceremony.
In his honor the magistrate even named two streets in the core area of the Frankfurt district of Bockenheim , Juliusstrasse and Wurmbachstrasse, as he was one of Bockenheim's largest employers.
literature
- Rainer Stüblig: Bright from the dark past: Bockenheimer Social Democrats 1863–1933. dipa-Verlag 1985, ISBN 3-7638-0417-X
- Wurmbach Julius, Vice Mayor, 1831–1901. ISG Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main, Personal History Collection, S2
- Descendants of Johann Wurmbach in Müsen, in: Mitteilungen der Genealogische Gesellschaft zu Frankfurt / M. 3 (1920), pp. 21-35; Bockenheim, Development, p. 80E; History Chamber of Commerce FranHut, pp. 1073, 1247f
Web links
- Julius Wurmbach and the Nieverner Hut
- Frank AG, their Nieverner Hütte and Julius Wurmbach
- MZ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: historic cast iron furnaces from Wurmbach, Frankfurt-Bockenheim
- Memorandum of the board of the association for trade and industry, u. a. by J.Wurmbach jr. 1895 (PDF; 899 kB)
- Cast iron stove from Wurmbach
- Association for the establishment of German-Protestant church services in health resorts
Individual evidence
- ^ Scala high-rise of DEKA-Immobilien
- ↑ Marie Luise Latsch: Bockenheimer Strasse telling , 2006, pro literatur Verlag, Mammendorf, ISBN 3-86611-152-5 , page 97, 206
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wurmbach, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German councilor of commerce, industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Müsen (today Hilchenbach , Siegerland) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1901 |
| Place of death | Nervi near Genoa , Italy |