Otto von Pelser-Berensberg
Otto von Pelser-Berensberg (born February 27, 1857 in Lemiers / Netherlands , † November 2, 1935 in Aachen ) was a German-Dutch mining company.
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Otto von Pelser-Berensberg was born as the 8th of 11 children of Friedrich von Pelser-Berensberg (1809–1875) and Eulalia Franziska Koch (1822–1915) in the Dutch part of the border town of Lemiers. After appropriate training, he went through a career in a mining company and became a mine owner. For many years Pelser-Berensberg worked as director of the royal Dutch Domaniale Mijn in Kerkrade and of the Aachen-Maastricht railway company , which cooperates with the Domaniale .
In addition, from March 22, 1900 he was appointed Honorary Consul of the Netherlands and later also Consul General of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Aachen. He also joined the Club Aachener Casino in 1902 . During the time of the Allied occupation of the Rhineland , he did an honorary job in the Aachen area for the German Red Cross , which was newly founded in 1921 , and did great service in this regard.
In the years 1906/1907 von Pelser-Berensberg had the stately and now listed villa built by the architect Carl Sieben in Aachen's Nizzaallee No. 2, in which he had offices on the ground floor in his function as Dutch consul and rooms in the upper Floors used as private residence.
Otto von Pelser-Berensberg was married to the Dutch Maria Catharina Gerardina van der Elst (1861-1889) and after her early death to Martha von Mitscherlich (1867-1957), daughter of Richard Mitscherlich and granddaughter of Eilhard Mitscherlich . With her he had the son Horst Friedrich Wilhelm Hans von Pelser-Berensberg and two daughters, of whom the daughter Maria (* 1894) married the later Geilenkirchen district administrator Alexander Czéh . After his death, Otto von Pelser-Berensberg left Lemiers Castle to his widow , which was confiscated by the Dutch state in 1945 as enemy property. His son was able to buy back the castle, which was badly damaged in the war, in 1953, but sold it four years later because of the high restoration costs.
Otto von Pelser-Berensberg, himself descended from a branch of the Aachen-Stolberg industrial family Peltzer , was instrumental in researching his family branch and wrote the publication: “ On the history of the Pelser-Berensberg family ”, published in 1908 as volume 1 the art institute Gebrüder Driessen in Aachen.
Literature and Sources
- Eduard Arens, Wilhelm Leopold Janssen : Club Aachener Casino , new ed. by Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , printing Metz, Aachen 2nd edition 1964, p. 210
- HF Macco : History and genealogy of the Peltzer families (= contributions to the genealogy of Rhenish noble and patrician families. Vol. 3). Georgi, Aachen, 1901, p. 31 digitized
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Dannert: The Nice-Allee . Volume 1 of the publication series of the Lousberg Society, Aachen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020864-5 , pp. 47–56.
- ↑ History of the Pelser-Berensberg family
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pelser-Berensberg, Otto von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pelser-Berensberg, Maria Hubert Wilhelm August Otto von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Dutch entrepreneur and honorary consul |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lemiers |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 1935 |
| Place of death | Aachen |