Louis von Kannengießer

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Louis von Kannengießer (born April 17, 1852 in Essen , † October 30, 1919 in Munich ) was a German merchant and ship owner .

Live and act

Louis (since 1902: von; since 1918: Ludwig von) Kannengießer grew up as the son of a coal merchant in Essen. After he had learned the trade, he and his brother Karl founded a coal business in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1876 , which mainly exported to southern Germany. After his brother left the joint company (1895), the United Sellerbeck colliery (1889) and the Roland colliery (1901), Louis Kannengießer brought his company into Harpener Bergbau AG in 1904 . At that time, his company had 11 wheel and screw steamers, eight swap tug boats, 68 barges and two mines. As general director with an office in Mülheim an der Ruhr, he headed the shipping department of Harpener Bergbau AG for ten years until the company's headquarters were relocated to Ruhrort (1914). He was a member of the Düsseldorf Freemason Lodge To the Three Allies .

marriage and family

Louis Kannengießer was married to Anna Krabb (1855-1919). The marriage had four children: Anna (* 1880), Karl Louis Wilhelm (* 1883), Elsa Auguste Amalia (* 1885) and Kurt (* 1891)

literature

  • Heinz Wilhelm Auberg: Shipowner, coal trader and mine owner - Louis Kannengießer. In: Horst A. Wessel (Ed.): Mülheim entrepreneurs and pioneers in the 19th and 20th centuries. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2012, pp. 197–199.
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Richard Bacht Verlag, Essen 1985, p. 116.
  • Barbara Gerstein:  Louis von Kannengießer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 108 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Günther Schreiber: Mülheim personalities: Go. Kommerzienrat Louis Kannengießer - an important shipowner and industrialist in the city of Mülheim , in: Mülheimer Jahrbuch 1960, pp. 84–86.
  • Family tables of the Kannengießer and Krabb families. Edited by Dr. Kurt Kannengießer in memory of his parents. Garmisch 1920.

Other sources

  • State Archives Koblenz, Dept. 403 9883
  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1550 (Mülheim personalities)
personal data
SURNAME Kannengießer, Louis von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and ship owner
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1919
Place of death Munich