Peter Lucas Colsman

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Tombstone Peter Lucas Colsmans, in the old Protestant cemetery in Langenberg

Peter Lucas Colsman (* 13. March 1734 in Langenberg ; † 24. April 1808 ) was a German silk manufacturer in Bergisch Langenberg.

Life

Colsman had been an orphan since 1740 and therefore grew up with his godmother. He was educated in the house of the Bleckmann family and also received language lessons. From 1745 he lived with the Dahlmann family before he began a commercial apprenticeship in his native town in 1747. To expand his knowledge, he came to the von der Leyen company in Krefeld in 1752 as a "salesman" .

In 1755 he married and founded a silk factory in his hometown, today's weaving mill Gebrüder Colsman (Essen). He was also involved in the community and as a consistorial councilor. In 1764 he was appointed aldermen for life.

Through the lease of the two in Langenberg existing grain and Bark Mill in 1777, he expanded his business. Since 1794, when his sons joined, his company traded as "Peter Lucas Colsman & Sons". In 1802 the business passed to the sons Peter Lucas (1757–1816) and Johann Wilhelm (1767–1833) and has operated under the name "Gebrüder Colsman" ever since.

literature

  • Carola Groppe : The spirit of entrepreneurship. An educational and social history. The Colsman family of silk manufacturers (1649–1840) . Böhlau, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-412-11004-3 . Also habilitation thesis, University of Bochum, Bochum 2002.
  • Carola Groppe: Family memories and family strategies . In: Jutta Ecarius (Ed.): Handbuch Familie . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 3-81003984-5 , pp. 406-423.
  • Clara E. Laeis: Corporate Citizenship. Entrepreneurial citizenship skills in the service of a renewal of the social market economy. A middle class concept . LIT, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8630-1 , p. 43f.
  • Kurt Wesoly: in: Horst Degen, Christoph Schotten (Hrsg.): Velbert. History of three cities . Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-1843-1 , pp. 86ff., 104.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Carola Groppe: Family memories and family strategies . In: Jutta Ecarius (Ed.): Handbuch Familie . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 3-81003984-5 , pp. 406–423, here p. 414.
personal data
SURNAME Colsman, Peter Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German silk manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenberg
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1808
Place of death Langenberg