Klara van Eyll

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Klara van Eyll (born on September 28, 1938 in Essen ) is a German archivist , historian , professor of economics and social sciences and the author of numerous specialist publications on corporate history and archiving. From 1971 to 1999 she was director of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsarchiv in Cologne .

Life

Origin and education

Klara van Eyll was born just under a year before the start of the Second World War in Essen as the only child of the city official, later as chief administrative director, head of the regulatory office Theo van Eyll and his wife Klara van Eyll, née Wilhelm. From 1944 to 1949 she attended elementary schools in Olfen and Rellinghausen , after which she switched to a modern-language girls' grammar school in Bredeney . After completing her high school diploma , she first completed a commercial internship at Stinnes Eisenlager GmbH in Essen, before starting to study economics at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau in the winter semester of 1958/59 . After two semesters, she moved to the University of Cologne , where she took economic and social history as an elective .

Her academic teacher in Cologne was Hermann Kellenbenz , who was also highly regarded internationally as an economic and social historian. In addition to the chair for economic and social history, which was held before him by Bruno Kuske and, since 1951, by Ludwig Beutin , Kellenbenz also took on the role of a part-time director of the Rhenish-Westphalian Economic Archives since he took over in 1960. Through Kellenbenz, van Eyll got to know the archive in all its complexity and found employment there alongside archivist Elisabeth Esterhues as a student assistant before completing her studies as a commercial teacher on July 1, 1963 with the grade "very good" .

Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv

On the day of her examination, Klara van Eyll was hired as an archivist at the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) and sent to the archive for employment, where she succeeded Esterhues.

On September 1, 1971, van Eyll was appointed managing director of the archive. At her side was Friedrich-Wilhelm Henning , who succeeded Kellenbenz, who, like him, had previously worked part-time as scientific director. Henning retired in April 1996. The archive's board of directors had already taken the decision to abolish the previous dual leadership. As a result, Klara van Eyll was appointed sole director of the economic archive on January 1, 1997. She left this office on December 31, 1999. In parallel to her managerial function in the economic archive, she had been a member of the management of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 1981, and in this role, especially during the 1990s, she carried out various cross-sectional tasks, including personnel management for one year. In March 2000 Klara van Eyll left the service of the Chamber of Commerce.

Teaching

In addition to her main job as archivist and later director of the economic archive, van Eyll was employed under Kellenbenz from 1967 as a research assistant at the "Rhenish-Westphalian Department of the Research Institute for Social and Economic History at the University of Cologne". In Cologne she became Dr. rer. pole. (Doctor of Economics and Social Sciences) PhD . Her dissertation, submitted to Kellenbenz under the title Requirements and Development Lines of Economic Archives up to the Second World War , was the first academic treatise on the history of economic archiving. It is considered a standard work.

In the 1970 summer semester, Klara van Eyll took on the only teaching position on “Entrepreneurship and Company History” in Germany at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne. The subject of the teaching assignment, dealing with the vitae of entrepreneurs and the history of their companies themselves, suffered particularly in the post- 1968 period from the “reputation of contract research ”. From a scientific point of view, both on the part of Kellenbenz as a full professor and on the part of van Eyll as a lecturer, it was a clear sign to give or accept this assignment. On March 13, 1992, the Minister for Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia made van Eyll an honorary professor for economic and social history.

“Biographical research is her passion: to show how much the individual résumé determines the success or failure of a product or a company. To analyze how personal gifts, crises and family ties drive or block entrepreneurial action. "

- Annelie Stankau: Treasure hunt in dusty files. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from September 21, 1988.

After 2000

After her departure from the Economic Archives and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, she was presented with a commemorative publication on November 27, 2003 by the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Foundation at the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which outlines her work for more than three decades. At this point in time her great task was to write a biography of the important Rhenish industrialist Gustav von Mevissen. Barely five years later, on March 3, 2009, the historical archive of the city of Cologne, which was keeping his estate, collapsed.

"The presentation of Rhenish economic history seems difficult to imagine without the name Klara van Eyll."

- Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from November 6, 2003.

Memberships

In addition to her previously named tasks, van Eyll was also active in other committees and institutions. For many years she was deputy chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Society for Company History (GUG), from 1968 to 1996 a member of the board of the Vereinigung deutscher Wirtschaftsarchive eV and from 1985 to 1993 a board member of the VdA (Association of German Archivists) and head of Section 5: Archivists an Archives of the economy (today: Association of German archivists ).

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The history of a chamber of commerce, illustrated using the example of the Essen Chamber of Commerce from 1840 to 1910. (= publications on Rhenish-Westphalian economic history. Volume 10) Foundation Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln, Cologne 1964.
  • Requirements and lines of development of economic archives up to the Second World War. (= Writings on Rhenish-Westphalian economic history. Volume 20) Foundation Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Cologne, Cologne 1969 (also dissertation, Cologne 1968)
  • with Hermann Kellenbenz : The history of entrepreneurial self-administration in Cologne 1797–1914. Published by the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Cologne 1972.
  • Leafed through Cologne address books. Greven Verlag, Cologne 1978.
  • From the Kupferhof to pharmaceutical research. The Grünenthal farm and the Wirtz family. In: the scales. Magazine of Grünenthal GmbH, Aachen. Volume 35, 1996, number 2 (pp. 45-88), pp. 48-57.

For further publications (as of 2001) see also: Bibliography of the writings of Klara van Eyll. In: Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.): Moving – connecting – shaping. Entrepreneurs from the 17th to the 20th century. Festschrift for Klara van Eyll. Pp. 351-359.

literature

  • Eyll, Klara van. In: Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender 2003. Bio-bibliographical directory of German-speaking scientists of the present, 19th edition, Volume IA – J, KG Saur Verlag , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 724.
  • Eyll, Klara van. In: Who is who? The German who's who. Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. XLVIII. Edition 2009/10, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2009, ISBN 3-7950-2048-4 , p. 271.
  • Klara van Eyll. In: the scales. Journal of Grünenthal GmbH, Aachen 35, 1996, 2, p. 89
  • Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.): Moving – connecting – shaping. Entrepreneurs from the 17th to the 20th century. Festschrift for Klara van Eyll. (= Writings on Rhenish-Westphalian economic history. Volume 44) Foundation Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-933025-39-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eyll, Klara van. In: Who is who? The German who's who. Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. XLVIII. Edition 2009/10
  2. ^ Ulrich S. Soénius : Klara van Eyll and the history of entrepreneurs. In: Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.): Moving – connecting – shaping. Entrepreneurs from the 17th to the 20th century. Festschrift for Klara van Eyll. Pp. 9–16, here p. 9.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ulrich S. Soénius: Klara van Eyll and the history of entrepreneurs. In: Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.): Moving – connecting – shaping. Entrepreneurs from the 17th to the 20th century. Festschrift for Klara van Eyll. Pp. 9–16, here p. 10.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Ulrich S. Soénius: Klara van Eyll and the history of entrepreneurs. In: Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.): Moving – connecting – shaping. Entrepreneurs from the 17th to the 20th century. Festschrift for Klara van Eyll. Pp. 9–16, here p. 11.
  5. ↑ a b Life for the History of Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from November 6, 2003, accessed on January 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Eyll, Klara van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist, historian and author of business publications
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH eat