Sebastian Lucius (manufacturer)

Sebastian Lucius

Sebastian Lucius (born November 2, 1781 in Erfurt , † September 18, 1857 in Klein Ballhausen ) was a German manufacturer in Erfurt.

Life

Sebastian was the eleventh child of the merchant Johann Anton Lucius in Erfurt. He attended the Evangelical High School in Erfurt and was trained as a businessman by his eldest brother in Höchst am Main from 1797 . After two years, Lucius returned to Erfurt to support his father in the business, whose company he founded operated the weaving of woolen ribbons. He later took over this company. The Joh. Anton Lucius developed into an important textile trading and production company in Erfurt. Lucius acquired two houses on the Anger (Erfurt) , which he combined to form the Lucius House (today: House Dacheröden ).

Lucius was politically and socially involved. He headed the Erfurt Chamber of Commerce for 12 years and was awarded the title of Commerce Councilor. He was a delegate at the meeting of German manufacturers and merchants. In the case of food taxes, Lucius sold grain below market price to the needy. Lucius and his wife (née Hebel) gave land and capital for a retirement home "Lucius-Hebel-Stiftung" and a Catholic hospital in Erfurt on Kartäuserstraße. Lucius was also involved in founding the Volksschen Erziehungsanstalt.

In 1851 he bought the Klein Ballhausen manor near Tennstedt , to which he retired in old age. The second oldest son Ferdinand Lucius continued the company from 1857 to 1862.

progeny

Among the eleven children were:

• August Lucius (1816–1900), merchant, landowner and member of the German Reichstag
• Henriette Marie Lucius (1823-1886)
• Ferdinand Lucius (1830–1910), German textile entrepreneur in Thuringia. Honorary citizen of Erfurt. Member of the Reichstag
• Eugen Lucius (1834–1903), German chemist and industrialist, co-founder of Hoechst AG
• Robert Lucius Freiherr von Ballhausen (1835–1914), Prussian Minister of Agriculture . Member of the Reichstag

Others

The Sebastian Lucius School in his home town of Erfurt ( Gispersleben district ) was named after him on March 10, 2008.

literature

• Wolfgang Huschke:  Lucius, Sebastian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 276 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Robert von Lucius: The Erfurt family Lucius. Erfurter Heimatbrief No. 37 (1978), pp. 28-37
• Katharina Trutz: Sebastian Lucius . In: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and for Anhalt (Hrsg.): Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder. Volume 3, Pictures of Life in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Self-published, Magdeburg 1928, pp. 362–372.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage of the school. Retrieved January 28, 2017 . 

Web links

Commons : Familie Lucius  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sebastian Lucius Medal