Louis Lekebusch
Louis (Ludwig) Lekebusch (born May 23, 1835 in Elberfeld , † February 9, 1909 in Barmen ) was a German yarn merchant, merchant and politician.
family
Louis Lekebusch was the eldest child of the businessman Ludwig Lekebusch (1807-1840) and his wife Rosalie, the daughter of the mayor Peter Böcker zu Wermelskirchen , born in Elberfeld. His father was a co-owner of the Turkish red yarn shop Schöler & Lekebusch in the Hofaue A.259a there. Louis, the French form of his name Ludwig, probably goes back to a relative of the business partner named Louis Schöler, who worked as a lawyer and advocate at the court of action in the Hofaue (B. 441). Louis Lekebusch had two sisters, Emilie and Laura. On September 1, 1840, after seven years of marriage, the father died of tuberculosis at the age of 32.
The Le [c] kebusch family came from Gut Leckebüschen near Quellenburg in the Sprockhövel area . According to the oldest church registers in Schwelm , Hartleif Leckebusch lived there around the middle of the 17th century. Some of the sons of this family moved to the Langerfeld area , with Johann Engelbert Leckebusch settling on the Kotten Sternenberg above Wichlinghausen .
His son Johann Caspar Leckebusch "zum Dieke" was the great-grandfather of Louis Lekebusch. He was tenant of bleach Good ThePremiumEnvironmentisasettingrelatedtothecoremessagesof Hof near Beck Acker at Nächstebreck and worked as scholarch the Lutheran church in Wichlinghausen . His eight children later married into the Wolff, Dicke, Mittelsten Schee and Braselmann families. Louis' grandfather, the master baker Johannes Leckebusch on the corner of Westkotter and Wichlinghauser Strasse in Wichlinghausen, had four children; the later tanner Friedrich Leckebusch (later foreman in the company of his father-in-law Johann Peter Mittelsten Scheid); Johannes Leckebusch; Wilhelm Lekebusch (merchant and yarn dealer) and, as the youngest child, Ludwig Lekebusch, father of Louis.
On May 19, 1868 Lekebusch married Auguste Mittelsten Scheid, the daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Mittelsten Scheid (1806-1878). The following year their son Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (Willy) was born. A second son died very early.
Life
The family initially lived at the yarn store in the Elberfelder Hofaue, and from 1837 at the latest in Laurentiusstrasse, where Lekebusch attended elementary school with Schlupkothen. After the death of the father, the mother and her three children moved into another apartment on Elberfelder Burgstrasse.
The Elberfeld uprising of 1849 left a deep impression on the almost 14-year-old Lekebusch, who witnessed the tumult in Elberfeld. A security committee exercised control over the city for several days before the uprising collapsed. His mother, Rosalie, fled with the children to neighboring Barmen, where they found shelter with relatives in Wichlinghausen. On the way there they had to climb over the barricades at Haspeler Brücke . He received his confirmation in the Lutheran congregation there .
After his mother's death in 1851, Louis' uncle Wilhelm Lekebusch (1804–1877) from Wupperfeld took his nephew on April 23, 1851 with him. Louis spent his apprenticeship at Lekebusch & Co. at Berliner Straße 30. From 1855 he joined Louis Mettenheimer's business in Frankfurt am Main as a trainee for a year . In 1861 he returned to Wupperfeld, where he worked in his uncle Wilhelm's shop and was granted procuration there in 1858 at the age of 23 . At first he lived on Heubruch street, later and after his marriage in Berliner Straße 30.
Louis Lekebusch established himself as a yarn dealer in Barmen-Wupperfeld; as a partner in Lekebusch u. Co., Linen, Woolen, and Cotton Ribbon Factory and Yarn Dealer . His son Willy Lekebusch (1869–1919) continued to run the company on Wupperfeld with his father and later alone.
1869 Louis Lekebusch held the post of provisor in the presbytery of the Wupper Fields church where he was caring for the poor of the community after the Elberfeld system dedicated. In the 1880s and again from 1892 to 1895 he was the church master in the municipality of Wupperfeld, responsible for the municipality's finances. For many years Louis Lekebusch was also active on the boards of the pastoral aid society, the Protestant club house and the Oberbarmer toddler schools; For over 15 years he ran the cash register of the Barmer hospitals .
In 1873 he was a co-founder of the Copernicus Society ; a water supply company that built the water tower Copernikusturm on Liegnitzer Strasse. Water should be supplied to this from the north, which should benefit the "society participants". However, the tower did not go into operation after its completion because the city administration had taken over the water supply. The building was demolished before the First World War and until then was used to set off fireworks on festive days.
From 1874 to 1889 he held the office of commercial judge. In addition, he was active for 30 years as a deputy in the "Committee for Trade Tax" and since the introduction of the new Income Tax Act a member of the "Assessment Commission" in Düsseldorf. From 1888 to 1906 he was a member of the 34th, 38th, 42nd and 46th Provincial Diet of the Prussian Rhine Province for Barmen. In 1904 he was a founding member and member of the supervisory board of Victoria Feuer-Versicherungs-AG in Berlin.
He was a member of the Association for Arts & Crafts and in 1858 accepted into the Barmer Society Concordia through membership proposal and ballotage . He was also a member of the Barmen Chamber of Commerce (the forerunner of today's Chamber of Commerce and Industry Wuppertal-Solingen-Remscheid ) and various municipal committees for 25 years . As a member of the administration of the Wupperfelder Bürgerhaus , Louis and other board members were commissioned to build the new four-story facility on Wupperfelder Markt. As a member of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein and the Schlossbauverein Burg an der Wupper , he supported the reconstruction of the former Hofburg of the Counts of Berg . After the death of his father-in-law, Louis Lekebusch inherited the property on Am Diek . He had the property, which later became known as Villa Halstenbach , rebuilt on a larger scale and moved into his retirement home here in 1896.
Lekebusch died in 1909. He was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Wichlinghausen (Protestant cemetery Friedhofstrasse). The Mittelsten Scheid / Lekebusch family grave, which was acquired by the family in 1852, has been recognized as an architectural monument since February 12, 1993 and entered in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal. The tombstone was made by the stone and sculptor Friedrich Schluckebier the Elder .
honors and awards
For his services he was appointed to the Royal Prussian Council of Commerce .
Web links
- Rainer Hendricks: Louis Lekebusch . In: barmen-200-jahre.de of February 11, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Rainer Hendricks: Louis Lekebusch . ( Memento from June 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: barmen-200-jahre.de from February 11, 2010.
- ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal Graves: historical walk through all the city's cemeteries . Thales-Verlag, Essen 2007. ISBN = 978-3-88908-482-8.
- ↑ Members of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament 1888-1933 (by place of residence)
- ↑ Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lekebusch, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lekebusch, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German yarn dealer, merchant and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1909 |
| Place of death | Barmen |