Robert von Görschen (business lawyer)
Robert (Oskar Julius) von Görschen (born November 22, 1829 in Aachen ; † January 10, 1914 there ) was a nationally known business lawyer and the initiator of many social and cultural institutions.
In the service of Aachen and Munich
Robert von Görschen came from the old German noble family von Görschen and was the son of the Prussian secret and high government councilor Karl Heinrich von Görschen (1784–1860) and Sophie Wilhelmine Hasselbach (1803–1886), who worked in Aachen. After studying law, he initially planned to pursue a career as a judge . He had already made it to the regional court assessor when he decided in 1861 to join the Aachener und Münchener Feuerversicherungsgesellschaft , a predecessor organization of today's AachenMünchener Versicherungs-AG . First he took over the management of the Berlin sub-directorate for two yearsbefore he was finally appointed as legal advisor to the Aachen headquarters in 1863 . He held this post for seventeen years and was therefore already an advisory member of the Board of Directors . On April 9, 1881 he was made a full member and in 1887 he was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors until his death. He was responsible for representing the insurance company internally and externally, and under his leadership the company achieved a brilliant development.
During this time Robert von Görschen had made enormous contributions to the German and international business of this insurance company thanks to his exceptional speaking skills and numerous contacts. He played a key role in setting up the company's 56 foreign representations, which had been established by 1900, but also in the planning and implementation of projects to subsidize social and cultural institutions in the region. In these early years of the industrial age , in which the cloth and needle industry as well as the mining industry and urban development in the Aachen area showed enormous growth rates, and thus the population and the thirst for education rose steadily, he vehemently advocated the social component of the subsidy Insurance company. He helped ensure that half of the annual profit was used for social and cultural purposes, as the founder of the company, David Hansemann , had decreed in 1824.
It is thanks, among others, to Robert von Görschen, in cooperation with the acting director Friedrich Adolph Brüggemann , that the Friedrich Wilhelm Foundation of the Aachen University, today's RWTH Aachen , was established in 1866 and placed on a secure financial basis. Through this Friedrich Wilhelm Foundation , research prizes and grants are awarded to this day . The university also received a guarantee fund of 1.3 million marks in 1870 as well as a construction cost subsidy of another million marks and 10,000 thalers annually as earmarked subsidies through the Aachen Association for the Promotion of Labor , a sponsoring association that provided for the insurance Managed grants through its own coffers. In addition, in 1870, both of them supported numerous cities and municipalities throughout the Rhineland in the name of the fire insurance company in purchasing a fire engine from the company Joseph Beduwe , fire engine, yellow and bell foundry from Aachen, which was able to sell over 5000 devices. Robert von Görschen was also together with the subsequent directors of the insurance company Richard Trostorff and Adolf Brüggemann together with the mayor Carl Eduard Dahmen , the secret commercial councilor Leopold Scheibler , the commercial councilor Robert Kesselkaul and the cloth manufacturers Konrad Starz, Emil Lochner , Karl Freiherr von Nellessen and others largely responsible for the fact that on May 1, 1886, the Einhard-Gymnasium could also be built and inaugurated on August 29, 1888, the David Hansemann monument and the design of the area surrounding the monument and on July 22, 1907 the Aachen Bismarck Tower .
In the service of the EBV
In addition, Robert von Görschen followed the call of his father, who at that time held the chairmanship of the supervisory board of the Eschweiler Bergwerkverein (EBV), and was initially a member of the EBV's board of directors. On October 26, 1897, the EBV elected him to the supervisory board, from 1907 to 1909 as deputy chairman and then until his death as chairman of this body.
The various lean coal mines in the Wurmrevier had been operated by the Association for Hard Coal Construction in the Wurmrevier since 1836 . Here it was again thanks to Robert von Görschen's initiative and commitment that in 1907 the merger of the individual pits and the association company under the umbrella of the EBV could take place. In his honor, the town of Würselen named the main shaft of the Gouley mine as early as 1903 and, 50 years later, according to a council resolution of November 21, 1953, an adjacent street was named after him.
Secondary jobs and honors
Robert von Görschen was also city councilor of Aachen from 1884 to 1909 . In addition, he joined the Club Aachener Casino on January 31, 1864 and was its president first in 1886 and lastly from 1902 to 1909.
For all of his services, von Görschen was awarded the following orders of merit :
- Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with swords
- Prussian Crown Order II class
- Order of Merit of St. Michael II Class
- House order of Henry the Lion II class
- House Order of Vigilance II Class
family
Robert Oskar Julius von Görschen, owner of Gut Klau in Aachen, was married to Elise Helene Friederike Brüggemann (1833–1917) and had four sons and two daughters with her. His son Robert (Walter Ernst Richard) von Görschen later became vice president of the government in Aachen and another son, Bruno Hans Otto Friedrich von Görschen (1865–1939) made it to the judicial council and in 1914 also to legal adviser in the Aachener und Münchener and in 1924 to chairman of the Supervisory board of the Aachen reinsurance company .
Robert von Görschen found his final resting place in Westfriedhof I in Aachen.
Others
Robert von Görschen had been a Corps student since his studies in Berlin. Here he had joined the Corps Marchia in 1850 .
literature
- Eduard Arens, Wilhelm L. Janssen : History of the Club Aachener Casino. new ed. by Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , Aachen 2nd edition 1964, No. 486, p. 170.
- Aachen and Munich fire insurance company. Memorandum to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Society from 1825–1900. Georgi, Aachen 1900.
- Aachen and Munich fire insurance company. Memorandum for the centenary 1825–1925. Aachen publishing and printing company, 1925.
- Oskar Stegemann: 100 years of EBV. The EBV and its history. Born in 1938.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Korpslisten 1910, 10 , p. 269
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Görschen, Robert von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Görschen, Robert Oskar Julius von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Business lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1914 |
| Place of death | Aachen |