Robert von Peltzer

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Robert Carl von Peltzer (born January 4 . Jul / 16th January  1846 greg. In poor mills at Narva ; † 17th November 1940 in Narva ) was a German-Estonian textile manufacturer . He was one of the co-founders of the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention .

Life

Robert Carl von Peltzer was born as the son of Napoléon Peltzer and Katharina Mollenhauer (1820–1878) , who emigrated from the Aachen area to Estonia, which was then part of the Russian Empire . He was baptized on April 9, 1846 in Armersmühlen, where his parents also lived. The godparents were the textile manufacturer Carl Richard Heide and Emilie Schröder. After attending grammar school in Dresden , he studied chemistry at the University of Zurich from the summer semester of 1863 . Although he was a student at the university, he joined the Corps Rhenania at the ETH Zurich . Here he was one of the key people behind the founding of the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention. In August 1865 he left Zurich, but returned for the summer semester 1866 in Stuttgart again at the University of Zurich back to there on 21 June 1867 with a dissertation on the subject over some substitution products of paraoxybenzoic and anisic acid for Dr. phil. to get a doctorate.

After completing his studies, he joined his father's cloth factory, Narva-Tuchmanufaktur AG, in Narva, where he took over production management and later became the majority shareholder. He built a canal from Konsu Lake to the Mustajogi River. Peltzer was the last lord of Gut Kurtna. For many years he was the French consul in Narva. With the annexation of Estonia by the Soviet Union, the company went under.

In November 2011, a 17th-century Flemish tapestry belonging to the Peltzer family was auctioned at Christie's .

Awards

  • On May 4, 1913, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention, Robert von Peltzer was presented with the silver medal of the WSC as co-founder.
  • In 1919 the Corps Rhenania ZAB made him an honorary boy.
  • In 1936, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, he was awarded the Order of the Eagle Cross of the Republic of Estonia .
  • Like his brother Eduard, he had been raised to the nobility.

literature

  • 150 years of Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855-2005 , Braunschweig 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran baptismal register of St. Johannis Church in Narva, No. 6/1846
  2. ↑ Chance finds at Ahnenforschung.Net
  3. ^ Matriculation of the University of Zurich, No. 2608
  4. ^ Matriculation of the University of Zurich, No. 3029
  5. ↑ The River Narva ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 12.4 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keskkonnaamet.ee
  6. ↑ A FLEMISH HISTORICAL TAPESTRY, Brussels, third quarter 17th century, by Gerard Peemans, after Justus Van Egmont
personal data
SURNAME Peltzer, Robert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Estonian textile manufacturer, co-founder of the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Narva
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1940
Place of death Narva