Philipp Heinrich Pastor

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Philipp Heinrich Pastor (born September 29, 1787 in Burtscheid , † August 30, 1844 in Aachen ) was a German cloth and needle manufacturer and president of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

Live and act

The son of the cloth and needle manufacturer Wilhelm Anton Pastor (1755–1818) and Katharina Elisabeth Fabricius (1758–1829) as well as the cousin of the Belgian industrialist Konrad Gustav Pastor also completed an apprenticeship as a cloth and needle manufacturer after his school days. He then took over the mixed family business " Gotthard Pastor, Peters Sohn ", but soon concentrated exclusively on needle production, which he then led to a rapid upturn. In 1827 he was awarded the gold medal at the industrial exhibition in Aachen. In the next few years he was able to further increase production with machines imported from England and received the right to use the Prussian coat of arms on his products by cabinet order of March 6, 1828.

Pastor was also active in innovation himself and invented a so-called exhauster, for which he received a 15-year Prussian state patent with effect from May 7, 1834 . With this suction and ventilation device, which sucked off the processing dust that was created when the needles were sharpened, the work became more effective and more bearable and Pastor caused a sensation throughout Europe. The effects were evident in England in 1844, where there were violent labor disputes in connection with the planned introduction of a comparable exhauster there. Despite the considerable health benefits, the English needle grinders feared that this would lead to the deduction of the hazard allowance paid to them, which indicated the generally unfavorable wage conditions in this branch of industry.

In addition to his professional commitment, Pastor devoted a large part of his time to public and voluntary activities. Together with his brother Johann Friedrich Pastor (1784–1866), he was one of the thirteen members of the committee who, under the leadership of David Hansemann , carried out the founding act of the Aachener Feuerversicherungs-Gesellschaft, today's AachenMünchener , on August 9, 1824 , and which his brother then headed as a board member until 1866. Together with Johann Friedrich, Hansemann and others, Philipp Heinrich Pastor was one of the founding members of the Aachen Association for the Promotion of Labor in 1834 , in which he then became a member of the board under the chairmanship of Hansemann. After Philipp Heinrich's death in 1844, a distant relative, Kommerzienrat Gottfried Pastor (1809–1866), took over this position, while his brother Johann Friedrich was elected chairman after Hansemann's departure. In addition, Philipp Heinrich had been a member of the reorganized Aachen Chamber of Commerce since 1834, and took over its presidency from 1841.

Pastor earned the greatest merit for the Aachen region when planning the new railway line from Cologne to Liège . The Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft initially favored a bypassing of Aachen. It was only through the massive commitment and the concrete route suggestions from Pastor as well as through the intervention of the incumbent President of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce, David Hansemann, and the Aachen district president Adolf Heinrich Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg as well as other influential personalities, but then succeeded, by royal decision of February 12, 1837 to receive the approval for the route through and via Aachen. Now the necessary new construction of the Königsdorf tunnel near Horrem and the Ronheider ramp as well as the entire route from Aachen to Liège could be completed. In the same year Pastor was elected to the board of directors of the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft. In time and only a year before his death, Pastor was finally able to see the new route open in 1843.

For this personal commitment, but also for his entire life's work, he was awarded the Red Eagle Order 3rd Class with Ribbon on July 20, 1842 , after he had been awarded the Red Eagle Order 4th Class in 1836. In memory of his achievements, the Pastorplatz in Aachen was named after him.

family

Philipp Heinrich Pastor was married to Johanna Wilhelmine Henriette Lindgens (1799–1876), with whom he had a daughter and six sons. One of his sons, Peter Heinrich Gotthard Pastor (1826-1892), emigrated to New York City and built the import house " Pastor & Hardt " there.

Another son, Rudolf Arthur Pastor (1828–1892) took over his father's needle factory, was promoted to the royal Prussian council of commerce and was a member of numerous supervisory and administrative boards.

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SURNAME Pastor, Philipp Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cloth and needle manufacturer and President of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Burtscheid
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1844
Place of death Aachen