Leopold Scheibler

Leopold Scheibler

Leopold Scheibler (born December 25, 1799 in Stolberg ; † June 26, 1881 in Aachen ) was a German forwarding and transport company , secret councilor and long-time president of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

Live and act

Little is known about the early years of the son of Johann Leopold Scheibler (* 1762) and Katharina Lynen because, on the one hand, the Protestant church records from Stolberg are incomplete and, on the other hand, the Stolberg branch of the Scheibler entrepreneurial family, in contrast to the Monschau cloth manufacturer family, hardly ever appears in the family chronicles mentioned.

Charlier & Scheibler

Leopold Scheibler was first mentioned professionally when he became a partner in the forwarding company "Charlier, Mathée & Trümpel" in 1837, which from then on operated under the name of "Charlier & Scheibler". This company, which was founded by Friedrich Wilhelm Charlier (1785–1865) before the turn of the century, served to bring the special products from the factory centers of the rural regions in the Eifel, and especially the valuable cloth goods from Monschau, to the trading centers in Aachen, Cologne, Brussels and Paris to transport and vice versa to deliver the technical equipment requested by the companies. In the course of this cooperation, Charlier, who had previously relocated his company headquarters from Roetgen to Aachen, joined forces with members of the Scheibler family from Monschau for the first time in 1808 and, from 1837, directly with Leopold Scheibler. He set up several branches and in a few years led the company to international renown. Scheibler benefited in particular as a supplier to the newly built stations of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft founded in 1836 , of which he became a long-term member, as well as from the Cologne-Aachen-Liège-Antwerp railway line, which opened on September 1, 1843. In addition, he benefited from his economic contacts with the Association for Hard Coal Construction in the Wurmrevier , whose board member Scheibler had meanwhile also been elected and which resulted in his company receiving more orders for coal delivery to middlemen and private and business customers. Just like other entrepreneurs at the time, Scheibler, in consultation with his partner, expanded the transport and forwarding company to include a private bank. This then became the “Aachener Diskonto-Gesellschaft” in 1872, which later renamed the “Rheinische Diskonto-Gesellschaft” in 1902 and the “Rheinisch-Westfälische Diskonto-Gesellschaft” in 1905, and from 1917 onwards it flowed into the Dresdner Bank .

The forwarding and transport company, in which after the death of Friedrich Wilhelm Charlier his son Eugen Charlier (* 1812), previously owner of the Charliers-Mühle Roetgen , became a partner, was founded in 1898 on the initiative of Albert Schiffers as a merger of the forwarding companies Charlier & Scheibler, Carl Schiffers, Gebr. Heucken & Co., Charles Fischer and Lünenschloß combined to form Speditions- und Lagerhaus AG (SPELAG).

Offices and memberships

As early as 1849, Leopold Scheibler was one of the co-founders of the liberal Aachen Constitutional Association, which was established in Aachen as well as in many other cities during the German Revolution of 1848/49 in order to enforce a constitutional monarchy . In addition, Scheibler was elected President of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry for periods from 1851 to 1863 and from 1871 to 1881.

In addition to many important tasks in this office, he belonged together with the future statesman Friedrich von Kühlwetter , the insurance entrepreneur Friedrich Adolph Brüggemann , the president of the commercial court Johann Arnold Bischoff , the spinning mill owner Johann Friedrich Pastor and the director of the chemical factory Rhenania in Stolberg Friedrich Wilhelm Hasenclever and others the leading Aachen personalities, who from 1858 as the “private committee for the establishment of a polytechnic school in Aachen” had significantly advocated, helped plan and supported the construction of the new polytechnic , so that the foundation stone was laid on May 15, 1865, which ultimately resulted in the RWTH Aachen emerged .

A few weeks before his death, on April 28, Leopold Scheibler was also significantly involved with the mayor Carl Eduard Dahmen , the commercial advisor Robert Kesselkaul, the legal advisor Robert von Görschen and the cloth manufacturers Konrad Starz, Emil Lochner , Franz Carl Freiherr von Nellessen and others involved in the decision that today's Einhard-Gymnasium was built in Aachen.

For his many services, Leopold Scheibler was appointed Privy Councilor of Commerce.

family

Leopold Scheibler was married to Sophie Henrietta Cramer (1798–1863) and his second marriage, which he entered into in 1870 at the age of 71, to Fanny Sophia Johanna Charlier (1816–1893). The latter was a daughter of the company founder Friedrich Wilhelm Charlier and a sister of Franz Albert Charlier (1814-1894), who from 1843 headed the Cologne branch of the forwarding company Charlier & Scheibler and in 1845 co-founded the wagon construction company van der Zypen & Charlier in Cologne-Deutz , the later western wagon .

Leopold Scheibler found his final resting place on the former Protestant cemetery Güldenplan, which is under monument protection, in the city ​​garden of Aachen .

literature

• Carl Johann Heinrich Scheibler: History and genealogy of the Scheibler family , Cologne, 1895 Digitized edition of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf
• Hans Carl Scheibler and Karl Wülfrath : West German pedigrees vol. 1, Böhlau, Weimar, 1939
• Elisabeth Nay-Scheibler: The story of the Scheibler family . In: Scheibler-Museum Rotes Haus Monschau Foundation (ed.), Cologne 1994

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scheibler joins the Charlier freight forwarding company ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ John M. Kleeberg: The Disconto-Gesellschaft and German Industrialization: A critical Examination of the Career of a German Universal Bank 1851–1914 pp. 118–120 (Engl.)
3. ↑ Spedition- und Lagerhaus AG
4. ↑ Discussion of the RWTH Aachen location - Scheibler's involvement ( memento of the original from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ New construction of the Einhard-Gymnasium ( Memento from October 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )