Paul Nicolas Édouard Peltzer

Paul Nicolas Édouard Peltzer (born October 21, 1829 in Verviers , † May 15, 1903 there ) was a Belgian cloth manufacturer and politician.

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  Peltzer cloth factory in Verviers, before 1890

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  Cloth manufacturer Peltzer, Verviers (2005)

Édouard Peltzer was the son of the cloth manufacturer Henri Édouard Peltzer (1797–1866) and Johannetta Philippine Emma Manskopf (1805–1890) and brother of Guillaume Auguste Peltzer .

After appropriate specialist training and the death of his father in 1866, Édouard Peltzer and his brother Auguste inherited their father's “Cloth Factory Peltzer”, formerly “Lieutenant & Peltzer”. The factory, which specializes in the production of woolen fabrics and leather, had already been founded in Verviers by his grandfather Johann Heinrich Peltzer (1763–1809), who came from the Stolberg line of the Protestant copper master family Peltzer , and was now continued as " Peltzer & Fils ". Édouard's eldest brother, Philippe Henri Peltzer (1828–1902), on the other hand, concentrated on the branches and wholesaling abroad, especially in Buenos Aires and Brussels .

As a partner in the Verviers company, Édouard Peltzer was responsible for the Gérardchamps factories in Verviers and Renoupré near Andrimont as well as for the “Peltzer & Fils” and “Peltzer & Cie.” Factories in Eupen , as well as for the new subsidiary “Peltzer & Fils” founded in 1885 “In Czestochowa (Poland; at that time Russia). After the death of his brother Auguste in 1893, his four sons Paul, Georges, Auguste and René joined the company as co-partners and after Édouard's own death in 1903, his son Édouard Peltzer took over his father's shares. In 1931, he transformed the company into a stock corporation under Belgian law (Société Anonyme / SA), which was taken over in 1965 by the Iwan Simonis company with a focus on exclusive bed linen and precious pool towels.

In addition to his professional obligations, Peltzer also took on the duties of a board member in several companies, including the Verviers tram company ("Compagnie des Tramway de Verviers"), as president of the Verviers company for the construction of workers' housing ("Société vervîtreoise pour la Construction des Residences de Workers ”) and in the administrative commission of the civil hospices and orphanages as well as in the consistory of the Protestant community.

In addition, he got actively involved in politics and was elected to the Verviers City Council in the local elections in 1858 and 1860. Finally he sat from 1876 to 1886 for the Liberal Party of Belgium founded in 1846 (Parti libéral, this went into the Mouvement Réformateur in 1961 ) in the Provincial Council of the Province of Liège . In the meantime he was from 1869 to 1870 and again from 1872 until his death in 1903, a member of the "Committee of the Liberal Association", of which he was appointed honorary chairman in 1898.

Edouard Peltzer was married to Mathilde Simons (1839–1901), who bore him several children, including their daughter Emma Mathilde (1858–1935), who married the cloth industrialist Paul von Andreae , their daughter Olga Zanders, nee. Peltzer, who married the paper manufacturer Hans Wilhelm Zanders and the son Édouard Peltzer mentioned above.

literature

• André Zumkir: Peltzer, Paul Nicolas Edouard , in: Nouvelle Biographie Nationale , Académie Royal des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique; Volume 8, 2005, pp. 300–301 ( PDF )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Norbert Gilson: History of the textile industry in the Verviers area, Eupen, Aachen , Rheinisches Industriemuseum 1997, p. 36/37 ( PDF )