Max von Velsen
Max Hugo von Velsen (born January 31, 1854 in Rheydt ; † November 2, 1935 in Bocholt ) was a German councilor and textile entrepreneur.
family
His father was Carl Theodor von Velsen (1821–1881), 1857–1877 mayor of the Lower Rhine city of Rheydt . He married his wife Maria Josephe Urbach on September 20, 1883 in Bocholt .
Career
After his one-year military service, he came to Bocholt at a young age and worked here as spinning mill director at the Ludwig Schwartz company since 1879. Ten years later he founded his own cotton mill from Velsen & Cie. In the west of the city . with (1910) around 25,000 spindles and around 260 employees.
In addition to his job, Max von Velsen did voluntary work in the political and industrial area as well as incessantly and pioneering in the field of public welfare. In 1891 he played a decisive role in the founding and further development of the Bocholt Volunteer Medical Column, a forerunner of the DRK local group , of which he was chairman from 1903 to 1927. In 1907 Max von Velsen became the first fire director of the newly founded municipal volunteer fire department , a position he held until 1926. From 1892 to 1919 he was a member of the city council of Bocholt. The function of a city council was his last political office for his city from 1917 to 1920.
Since 1901 a member of the district council, member of the district railway for Hanover and Münster, the Chamber of Commerce in Wesel, the supplementary tax assessment committee and the tax company of the trade tax class I, furthermore since 1902 chairman of the district warrior association, chairman of the fleet club Bocholt, board member of the Verein vom Roten Kreuz, delegate of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Textil-Berufsgenossenschaft as well as in 1898 co-founder and board member of the non-profit Bocholter Bauverein.
Honors
In 1898 the Prussian King awarded him the Crown Order IV class and in 1910 the honorary title of Kommerzienrat . On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the city of Bocholt, the city council finally named Max von Velsen an honorary citizen of the city of Bocholt on June 17, 1922.
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| SURNAME | Velsen, Max von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Velsen, Max Hugo von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German councilor and textile entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheydt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 1935 |
| Place of death | Bocholt |