Paul Dechamps

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Paul Dechamps (born March 19, 1881 Aachen ; † April 27, 1966 ibid) was a German textile manufacturer and local politician in Aachen.

Life

Paul Dechamps came from an old family of textile manufacturers that had settled in Aachen. His grandfather Leonhard Dechamps (1803-1857), who came from Goé , Belgium , had already founded a cloth factory in Aachen in the first half of the 19th century. Paul's father Nicolas Dechamps (1842–1911) then brought his father's factory into the new company Dechamps & Drouven in 1872 , which in turn became a partner in the newly founded Kammgarnwerke AG in Eupen in 1906 . In 1874 he had married the partner's sister, Caroline Drouven (1850–1931), Paul was one of their eight children.

Paul Dechamps first graduated from the Prussian Higher Technical School for the Textile Industry in Aachen and then went to England to study. Then he founded his own cloth factory in Mönchengladbach . After the First World War he returned to Aachen, at the end of the 1930s took over the factories of the closed cloth factory C. Nellessen, JM Sohn in Mörgensstrasse and founded the cloth factory Dechamps & Merzenich there , which he rebuilt and continued after the destruction in World War II.

In addition to his professional activity, he held numerous honorary positions. Among other things, he has been a city councilor since 1929 and councilor of the city of Aachen since 1933 and a member of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce since 1938 and a commercial judge there a year later . He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Higher Technical School for the Textile Industry, Treasurer of the Papal Work for the Propagation of the Faith and President of the TK Kurhaus Aachen .

Dechamps was married to Kitty Hermann. The former FAZ editor Bruno Dechamps was one of his children . Paul Dechamps found his final resting place in the family grave in Aachen's Ostfriedhof .

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personal data
SURNAME Dechamps, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Factory owner, local politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1966
Place of death Aachen