Richard Zanders

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Richard Zanders

Carl Immanuel Julius Richard Zanders (born August 31, 1860 in Bergisch Gladbach ; † March 28, 1906 there ) was a German paper manufacturer .

Life

Richard Zanders was a son of Carl Richard Zanders and Maria Zanders . In the traditionally evangelical family he had a strictly religious upbringing and was urged to fulfill the utmost duties. From 1882 he studied in Bonn and was a member of the Corps Hansea . After he had experience abroad, particularly collected here in England, he joined in 1886 along with his brother Hans Wilhelm Zanders in the family paper mill Zanders one. His responsibility related to the internal affairs of the company with its many employees. In 1887 he married Anna Eleonore Sophie Siemens , a daughter of the inventor and entrepreneur Werner von Siemens, who was ennobled in 1888 . The marriage remained childless.

activities

As a first-class voter , he also turned to politics by serving as a city councilor. It was here that the esthete who wanted to shape his surroundings became increasingly noticeable. He disliked, for example, the multi-storey buildings with backyards and multi-storey residential towers that became fashionable towards the end of the 19th century, as can still be seen today in the center of Bergisch Gladbach. He therefore created the Gronauerwald garden settlement for his workers . He then campaigned for the construction of a new town hall in Bergisch Gladbach, which his architect Ludwig Bopp designed in the historicist style. He supported his mother Maria Zanders in the restoration of the Altenberg Cathedral .

In 1893, the couple Zanders bought Lerbach Castle with the associated agriculture and forestry, had the dilapidated old moated castle demolished and a new representative mansion in the neo-Renaissance style built by Ludwig Bopp according to plans by Gabriel von Seidl , which was completed in 1898, in the midst of an extensive English landscape park .

Honors

The city of Bergisch Gladbach dedicated Richard-Zanders-Straße to him in 1914.

literature

  • Non-profit garden settlement company Gronauer Wald mb H., Development of building and housing in Bergisch Gladbach, second edition, Bergisch Gladbach, 1914
  • Ferdinand Schmitz : The paper mills and paper makers of the Bergisch Strundet valley , Bergisch Gladbach 1921
  • Festschrift Hundred Years of JW Zanders Paper Factory 1829–1929, Bergisch Gladbach 1929
  • Anna Caspary: Maria Zanders , The life of a mountain woman, Jena, 1929
  • Gartensiedlungsgesellschaft Gronauerwald mb H., without details of the author, Gartensiedlung Gronauerwald, Bergisch Gladbach, 1937
  • Egon Wolff, Edgar Königs and others: 125 years of JW Zanders 1829 - 1954 . Bergisch Gladbach 1954
  • Klara van Eyll : 400 years of paper mills on the go . Bergisch Gladbach 1982
  • Heinz Koch: Zanders, From the history of a company . Bergisch Gladbach 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 11 , 251
  2. ↑ a b Herbert Stahl in: Gronau , series of publications by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV, Volume 51, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-932326-51-6 , pp. 176ff.
  3. ↑ Hans Leonhard Brenner : Von Schwaben ins Bergisches Land, Ludwig Bopp, the architect of the Bergisch Gladbach town hall , in: Heimat between Sülz and Dhünn, volume 3, history and folklore in Bergisch Gladbach and the surrounding area, Bergisch Gladbach, 1996, page 20 ff.
  4. ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach, Stadtgeschichte in Straßenennamen , Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5 , p. 148
  5. ↑ Bergisch Gladbach City Archives FB 4-47
personal data
SURNAME Zanders, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zanders, Carl Immanuel Julius Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paper manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergisch Gladbach
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1906
Place of death Bergisch Gladbach