Mathias Stinnes

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Portrait of Mathias Stinnes
The grave of Mathias Stinnes and his wife Anna in the old town cemetery Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Mathias Stinnes (born March 4, 1790 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † April 16, 1845 there ) was a German entrepreneur who founded a company for shipping and coal trading in Mülheim an der Ruhr. With his company he laid the foundation stone for the former Stinnes AG .

Live and act

Mathias Stinnes was the third son of the Ruhr shipper Hermann Stinnes (1753–1793) and his wife Margaretha (1753–1813), born Werntges, in the Broich reign . As a teenager he worked as a cabin boy on his father's ship. Then he worked as a skipper's assistant in coal transport on the Ruhr. Together with his brothers, Mathias Stinnes founded a shipping and coal trading company in 1808. In 1810 he bought a coal yard and a two-masted Ruhraak and transported coal up the river and goods of all kinds down the river. As early as 1820, the Mathias Stinnes group owned four mines and 36 mine holdings. On the Rhine and Ruhr, more than 65 inland vessels belonged to the Stinnes fleet. 1831 procured Stinnes duty-free treatment of the Rhine and led in 1843 the steamship one on the Rhine. The company's sea transports had Hamburg and Stettin as their destination. The mine owner Stinnes introduced the vertical sinking of coal seams in Germany. The group was based on three pillars: production, trade and shipping.

When Mathias Stinnes - called "auler Mathes" in the vernacular in Mülheim - died, he was considered the largest shipowner between Koblenz and Amsterdam. He left his sons Mathias junior (1817–1853), Gustav (1826–1878) and his daughter Katharina (1819–1903) the largest German merchant fleet, stakes in forty mines and extensive land holdings. Daughter Katharina had been married to Gerhard Küchen senior (1809–1886) since 1858, who took on a leading role in his father-in-law's company and later passed this task on to his son Gerhard Küchen junior (1861–1932).

Marriages and offspring

On January 29, 1811 he married Anna Springmann (1789–1831), daughter of the Mülheim blacksmith Georg Springmann and Catharina born in Mülheim. Nöllenburg or Terjung. They had the following offspring:

  • Georg Mathias (* May 21, 1817; † April 13, 1853) ⚭ September 7, 1845 with Eleonore Helene Weuste (1819–1893), daughter of Christian Weuste and Helena born. Tripod
  • Katharina (* March 11, 1819; † March 22, 1903) ⚭ November 25, 1858 with Gerhard Joseph Hubert Küchen (1809–1886)
  • Johann Gustav (* August 29, 1826; † February 25, 1878) ⚭ July 12, 1855 with Auguste Perez (1828–1902), daughter of Franz Perez and Wilhelmine born. Dinnendahl

After the death of his wife (1831), he married her sister Anna Maria Springmann (1808–1865) on February 7, 1834, with whom he had the following children:

  • Wilhelm Hermann (born November 28, 1833 - † January 29, 1856)
  • Anna (September 1, 1835; † August 3, 1886) ⚭ September 25, 1858 with Carl Vorster (1835–1885), son of Carl Vorster and his wife Emilie born. von Eicken
  • Johanne Margarethe Mathilde (born November 22, 1840 - † October 14, 1911) ⚭ 1875 with Johann Hermann Leonhard (1835–1905)
  • Hermann Hugo (* December 3, 1842; † May 14, 1887) ⚭ November 21, 1865 with Catharina Sophie Adeline Coupienne (1844–1925), daughter of Heinrich Coupienne and Adeline born. von Eicken

Hermann I (* 1811), Hermann II (* 1814), Hermann August (* 1816), Gustav Hermann (* 1821), Anna Karoline (* 1823) and Mathilde (* 1837) died in childhood.

literature

  • German Family Archives, Volume 30. S. 97 ff.
  • Paul Neubaur: Mathias Stinnes and his house. A century of development 1808-1908 . Mülheim an der Ruhr, 1908, online
  • Herbert Sinz: 150 years of Math. Stinnes . Darmstadt, 1958.
  • Raimund Le Viseur: 175 years of Stinnes. The merchants from Mülheim. A German company chronicle . Düsseldorf, 1983.
  • Horst Arnold: Mathias Stinnes. A Rhenish entrepreneur in the early 19th century , in: Niederrheinkammer, 1987, p. 370.
  • Ulrich S. Soénius: From ship's boy to shipowner and colliery owner - Mathias Stinnes in: Horst A. Wessel (Ed.): Mülheim entrepreneurs: pioneers of the economy. Business history in the city on the river since the end of the 18th century . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, pp. 195–209.

Other sources

  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, inventory 888 (archive library: Stinnes Collection)
  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1600 (Stinnes family collection)

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personal data
SURNAME Stinnes, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1845
Place of death Mülheim an der Ruhr