Leopold Bleibtreu

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Johann Leopold Bleibtreu (born March 23, 1777 in Neuwied ; † September 11, 1839 in Pützchen Monastery , Bonn ) was a German mine and factory owner and founder of the alum smelter on the Holtorfer Hardt .

family

Leopold Bleibtreu was a son of Carl Philipp Bleibtreu (1746–1812) and Sara geb. Bolckhaus, daughter of the Cologne merchant Jacob Bolckhaus. His older brother Abraham Bleibtreu (1775-1852) was also a mining entrepreneur and miner . Her father Carl Philipp and his brother took over a wool and cotton mill in Neuwied in 1773 , where the family had been based since 1752. Carl Philipp Bleibtreu became Princely Wiedischer Kammerrat in 1784 .

Leopold Bleibtreu married Anna Maria Ackermann on March 6, 1807. Their son Hermann (1821–1881), who was a chemist and inventor of German Portland cement , became known from their 12 children together .

Life

Cross in memory of Leopold Bleibtreu and his son Carl Bleibtreu at the Evangelical Cemetery in Holzlar

First Leopold Bleibtreu worked for his father in Neuwied and in 1799 he became head of the Rheinbreitbacher ore mines, which his father and his brother-in-law Bolckhaus had bought in 1797. Under his direction, a miners' fund was introduced and medical care for the miners was guaranteed. In 1803 Leopold Bleibtreu became the first miner for the newly created mining office in Linz . His brother Abraham Bleibtreu (1775–1852) took over his previous position as manager of the family's own mines.

In 1806 Leopold Bleibtreu founded a joint company with the Cologne alum trading company Löhnis, which in 1809 built an alum works near Holzlar . In the years that followed, more and more alum huts and mines were merged under the name “Leopold Bleibtreu and Consorten”. In 1813 he took part as head of the Vilich department in the "Landsturm vom Siebengebirge" to protect against marauders and in 1814 took over police power in Bonn for the same purpose; On behalf of the Governor General of the Bergisches Land Justus von Gruner , he traveled to Saarland on military and mining matters, where he worked intensively and ultimately successfully to ensure that the Saarland came to Prussia in the Second Peace of Paris . In 1830 Leopold Bleibtreu founded Gut Großenbusch , which supplied the family and part of the workforce with food.

Leopold Bleibtreu was a Freemason and a member of the Illuminati Order in Neuwied as well as a member of several agricultural, natural research and mineralogical societies. He was the holder of the Russian gold medal on the Georgen ribbon .

Leopold Bleibtreu died in 1839 and was buried in the Evangelical Cemetery in Holzlar , where a cast-iron cross still commemorates him and his son Carl.

Works

  • Memories from the war events near Neuwied from 1792 to 1797 in a clear context with simultaneous war events in the Rhine and Netherlands ... , Georgi Verlag, Bonn 1834 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • The Rhineland in the Age of the French Revolution , Verlag Röhrscheid, Bonn 1988, extended reprint of the first edition from 1834.

Awards and honors

literature

  • Article: Bleibtreu, Leopold. In: Josef Niesen : Bonner Personenlexikon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 , pp. 53-54.
  • Theodor Kiesel: The lignite and alum industry on the Ennerthardt and its founder Leopold Bleibtreu . In: Herrschaft ... Küdinghoven, Chronik der Ennert-Orte, 1, pp. 68–73. [not evaluated]
  • Rudolf Cramer: The Evangelical Cemetery in Holzlar . (Studies on the local history of the Bonn-Beuel district) Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-922832-42-3 .
  • Max Muss : Leopold Bleibtreu (1777-1839). In: Contributions to Rhenish-Westphalian Economic History , Volume 1, Baedeker Verlag, 1920.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Cramer: The Evangelical Cemetery in Holzlar , studies on the home history of the Bonn-Beuel district, issue 35, pp. 85–86, ISBN 978-3-922832-42-3
  2. ↑ Dieter Demandt: City rule and city freedom in the field of tension between clergy and citizenship in Mainz (11th-15th centuries) , Verlag F. Steiner, 1977, ISBN 3-515-02399-2 , page 78 excerpt
  3. ^ Leopold Bleibtreu: Memories from the war events at Neuwied from 1792 to 1797. Bonn 1834, title page
personal data
SURNAME Stay true, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bleibtreu, Johann Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mountain master
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwied , Rhineland-Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1839
Place of death Pützchen Monastery , Bonn