Pastor (entrepreneurial family)

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Pastor (Pastoir) is the family name of a traditional and important family of cloth and needle manufacturers from Aachen and Burtscheid , who also provided lay judges and mayors in the free imperial city of Aachen .

Origins

The genealogical roots of the family lie in the Aachen district of Haaren , where the oldest presumable progenitor Johann I. Pastoir (1390–1449), at that time still mentioned with the addition of "von Haaren", had his home. He was married twice, whereby through his son Hermann I. Pastor († before 1440) from his first marriage with a certain Mrs. Roisblock, the later Burtscheider line developed, which turned to the cloth and needle industry, whereas the descendants of his son Johann II. Pastor (1440–1510) from his second marriage with Griete Swane († 1484) became known as the Aachen lay judge family, but became extinct in the male line around 1648.

Coat of arms of hair with shamrock of the Pastor family

The three-leaf clover in the lower part of the coat of arms of Haaren represents the coat of arms of the Aachen family von Pastor in the original form, whereby the eagle in the upper part of the shield shows that Haaren belongs to the free imperial city of Aachen. Pastor's family is the oldest known family of coats of arms in hair.

Aachener Linie - aldermen family

Already named son Johann II. Pastor († 1510), merchant and wine merchant in Aachen and owner of the then well-known Aachen inn "zum Birnbaum" on the market. He was elected to the city council in 1470 and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen in 1498/99 and 1502/1503 , almost at the same time as his cousin Hermann Pastor († 1515), who was elected mayor from among the guilds in 1500 has been. In addition, he was admitted to the lay judge's chair in 1501 and from 1506 held the honorary post of secular broadcast judge . The next officer in the family was his grandson Jacob I. Pastor (1531–1585). The trained businessman was a member of several guilds , from 1561 a council member and from 1564 to 1585 Aachen lay judge and from 1572 send judge. His son Jacob II pastor († 1618), a member of the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, was also initially elected to the city council and appointed aldermen from 1604 to 1618. His brother Georg Pastor († 1648), lawyer and Rittmeister in imperial service was ultimately the last lay judge from the Pastor family to work from 1617 to 1648, with whom this branch also expired in the male line.

Burtscheider Line - family of manufacturers

The real economic rise of the family began, however, with the son Hermann I. Pastor from the first marriage. His son Hermann II († 1515) was a member of the imperial city administration, council member and also mayor of Aachen in 1500/01. As mayor, he worked to ensure that master blacksmiths were given the right to trade in iron and steel, which was previously only available to shopkeepers. His son Hermann III. (* 1485) moved to the then independent city of Burtscheid at the beginning of the Aachen religious unrest for economic reasons and thus founded the growing Burtscheid line. His son Heinrich IV. (1530–1615) now joined the evangelical faith like many other family members from the Aachen lay judges' line and entered the flourishing needle trade for the first time.

Three generations later, Peter Pastor (1669–1754) was the first to set up a family-owned cloth factory and cloth shop under the company name “Peter Pastor, cloth shop and factory”. In 1745 Gotthard II. Pastor (1704–1777) took over the cloth factory of his father Peter Pastor, which now operated under the name "Gotthard Pastor Peters Sohn", and also founded a needle factory. After Gotthard's death, the cloth factory was transferred to his son Karl Philipp (1745–1810), who then remained in the family's possession for two generations until 1908.

The married couple Philipp Heinrich I. Pastor and Amalie Henriette Platte

In contrast, the needle factory was transferred to the son Philipp Heinrich Pastor (1752–1821), the elder, who first used steam engines for his production . A portrait painting of him, painted by Johann Baptist Joseph Bastiné , is still in the Couven-Museum Aachen today . His nephew and heir to the company, Philipp Heinrich Pastor, the younger (1787–1844), who was also a partner in “Gotthard Pastor Peters Sohn”, invented the “Exhauster”, a suction and venting device that removes the processing dust from the needles emerged, sucked off, making the work more effective and bearable. In addition, he was a founding member of the Aachener-Münchener Feuerversicherungsgesellschaft , member of the board of the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft and from 1841 to 1843 President of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry . He also campaigned vehemently with David Hansemann that the Cologne-Liège line of the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft ran via Aachen. He was married to Amalie Henriette Platte from Großeledder in Wermelskirchen. She had ancestral parents in common with Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach in Essen. After his death, his needle factory was initially taken over by his son, Kommerzienrat Rudolf Arthur Pastor (1828–1892). His son Philipp Heinrich Arthur Pastor (1856–1931) transferred this to the " Rheinische Nadelfabrik AG " in 1917 . For this, his brother Wilhelm Emil Pastor (1865–1925) got back into the cloth industry and was elected chairman of the Aachen cloth manufacturers' association.

In the meantime, other family members were involved in the establishment of individual needle and cloth factories, such as Peter Pastor's great nephew, Daniel Isaak Pastor (1749–1826), grandfather of the historian and Austrian diplomat Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928), with his cloth factory “Daniel Pastor Karl's Son ”. With Johann Wilhelm Pastor (* 1818) a family member was called to Russia for the first time . As a director in Białystok and later in Choroszcz he ran important cloth factories and finally set up his own cloth factory "JW Pastor & Sons", which later was owned by his sons Commission and agency business was continued. But also joint cooperations with befriended or related families such as the family of Johann Arnold von Clermont in Vaals , Scheibler in Monschau and Otto Peltzer in Aachen came about. The material and technical support, especially through more modern work machines - coarse and fine spinning machines , mechanical looms - from the production of the English entrepreneur William Cockerill, Senior , based in Verviers and Liège , led to the rapid rise of cloth manufacture in Aachen and thus also the factories the Pastor family, which were examined personally by Emperor Napoléon .

Konrad Gustav Pastor (1796–1890), a grandson of Gotthard II. Pastor, was the first family member to set up a new worsted yarn factory outside Aachen and Burtscheid in the immediate vicinity of William Cockerill's machine factory in Verviers . A few years later, William's son John Cockerill appointed him to his steel works in Seraing and appointed him director of SA Cockerill-Sambre . This marked chosen two of his sons, Gustave Léon Pastor (1832-1922) and George octave Pastor (1835-1915), a career for a metallurgical engineer , both later their activity after Duisburg laid and there to the technical director of the Rheinische Stahlwerke brought . In addition, it came through the marriage of Charles James Cockerill (1787-1837) with Karoline Elisabeth Pastor (1791-1836) and John Cockerill (1790-1840) with Johanna Friederike Pastor (1795-1850), both sons of William Cockerill Daughters of Philipp Heinrich Pastor, the elder, to relatives of the Anglo-Belgian industrial family with the Burtscheider cloth and needle manufacturers.

In the 20th century, the Pastor family was finally affected by the general decline of the cloth and needle industry, despite a brief boom after the Second World War, and was probably forced to sell one work after the other due to cheap production from the expanding Asian countries or close.

Significant family members

Literature and Sources

  • Hans Joachim Ramm:  Pastor, family. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 93 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hermann Ariovist von Fürth : Contributions and material on the history of Aachen patrician families. Volume 2. Cremer, Aachen 1882.
  • HF Macco : History and genealogy of the Pastor family (= contributions to the genealogy of Rhenish noble and patrician families. Volume 4). sn, sl 1905, ( freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com excerpts).
  • Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The lay judges of the Royal See of Aachen from the earliest times until the final repeal of the imperial city constitution in 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 50 , 1928, ISSN  0065-0137 , pp. 1-596 ( rootsweb ).
  • Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The Aachen mayors from 1251 to 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 55, 1933/34 , pp. 41-77 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).
  • Clemens Bruckner: On the economic history of the administrative district of Aachen (= publications on Rhenish-Westphalian economic history. Volume 16, ZDB -ID 517213-5 ). Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv, Cologne 1967.
  • Hans-Karl Rouette: Aachen textile history (s) in the 19th and 20th centuries. Developments in the cloth industry and textile machine construction in the Aachen region. Meyer and Meyer, Aachen 1992, ISBN 3-89124-137-2 .
  • Nicolaus J. Breidenbach : "Large Ledder". From the “Scala” to the “Jusche” to the “Seminar and Leisure Hotel of Bayer Gastronomie”. Gisela Breidenbach, Wermelskirchen 2009, ISBN 3-980-2801-6-0 .

Web links

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