Theodor Wilhelm Dueren

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Theodor Wilhelm Düren (* 1866 ; † July 8, 1928 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German building contractor . The construction company Theodor Wilhelm Düren founded by him in Bad Godesberg, a current district of Bonn , gained supraregional importance.

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origin

Düren came from a Godesberger building contractor family who can be traced back to his grandfather Johann Wilhelm Düren (1801-1852). His father Wilhelm Düren (1830–1886), who had a younger son, together with his brothers Anton (1826–1904) and Theodor (1834–1885) owned the construction company (founded in 1855) and the gas works (built in 1869/70 ) Wilhelm Düren .

Career

Düren was prepared for the grammar school by private teachers and entered the quarters of the royal grammar school in Bonn at Easter 1877 ; In 1882 he moved to the grammar school in Münstereifel , where he reached the one-year- old and the sub- prime maturity. This was followed by practical training in the construction industry and, in the summer of 1885, a visit to the art and trade school in Liège . After a preparatory lesson by the builder Esser in Honnef , a former employee of the construction company Wilhelm Düren, he was accepted into the building trade school in Cologne ; He completed this with the master builder exam and the grade “good” . This was followed by a job in the office of the architect Josef Crones (1848–1934) in Cologne, also a former employee of the Wilhelm Düren company. In 1888/89 Düren did his military service with the Deutz pioneers as a one-year volunteer . He was discharged from army service when he left an exercise to take care of his business. From autumn 1898 he lived in Rheinallee 19 , and from around 1902 in Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße 8.

On October 10, 1889, Düren founded the company "Theodor Wilhelm Düren Baugeschäft" in Godesberg, whereby the Wilhelm Düren company was liquidated; in its external presentation, however, the company identified itself as the continuation of this company. A yard and an administration building was on a Duren inherited from his father area between Main Street and East Road and build on a plot at the road Plittersdorfer a field fire brick . The company received its first order from the Cologne Railway Directorate for a railway underpass in the extension of Bahnhofstrasse. In 1890 Düren won a tender for the new building of the Markusstift hospital on Burgstrasse and had to recruit workers from Nassau for this project . He became the most important building contractor and land speculator in the community, especially in the “second” Godesberg villa district , where he also built numerous streets - mostly initially as private roads that were later taken over by the community. In 1897, Düren also built the “Godesberger Dampfziegelei” - which he also included in his company - with a clay pit in the former Schindskaule near Schweinheim . It developed into the largest brickworks in Godesberg and produced up to eight million bricks every year. In 1901 Düren employed 1,441 workers; Numerous foreign orders, including many for the military and some in what was then the realm of Alsace-Lorraine , led to the opening of branches in Strasbourg (1896–1900) and Metz (from 1901), and another in Frankfurt am Main (from 1900). In 1903 the company he had previously run as a sole trader was converted into the newly founded "Theodor Wilhelm Düren Baugesellschaft mbH ". In the same year his head office moved into a newly built office building (Karl-Finkelnburg-Straße 49), and he had a villa (Kaiserstraße 5a) built according to plans by the architect Ernst Spindler as a private residence and was able to live there from August 1904.

In April 1909 Düren moved to Diedenhofen in Lorraine for business reasons . After the company ran into difficulties, its liquidation was initiated in 1910 and the properties previously belonging to it were transferred to the previously newly founded "Godesberger Immobiliengesellschaft mbH" with the partners Theodor Wilhelm Düren and his wife and the previous branch in Metz to the "Rheinisch- Elsass-Lothringische Baugesellschaft mbH “was spun off. In 1912, Düren had to sell the steam brick, which was last mortgaged , two years after production had ceased. In 1914 the "Baugesellschaft Düren mbH" was founded, the managing directors of which were Düren and his wife. During the First World War he was mainly concerned with German military buildings in Lorraine and in August 1918 had to move back from Diedenhofen to Godesberg due to the approaching Allied troops, where he and his children initially moved into the Villa Kaiserstraße 7 , which he owned . On the banks of the Rhine he had a "country house" (Büchelstrasse 53) built for his family through his real estate company in 1918/19 according to plans by the architect Heinrich Müller-Erkelenz , which he did not move into; from November 1922 he lived again in the Villa Kaiserstraße 5a. The construction company was unable to build on its previous success in the post-war period, and Düren's sons also took different professional paths.

Death and aftermath

Düren died of a heart attack in his villa at Kaiserstraße 5a at the beginning of July 1928. He was buried in the castle cemetery in Bad Godesberg. The construction company was initially from Regierungsbaurat a. DA Beil continued as the new managing director and, from 1938 based in Cologne, gave up at the end of 1953. The Dürenstrasse in the Godesberg villa district that his company created is named after Düren .

  • Villa Theodor Wilhelm Düren, Kaiserstraße 5a (1910)

Public engagement

Düren was the "most wealthy landowner" from 1896 to 1908 and from 1914 to 1919 a member of the Godesberg municipal council . He belonged to some local associations, including the recovery society , the pioneer association, the guard association and the Bad Godesberg embellishment association (from 1903 to 1910 as a board member).

family

Düren was married to Wilhelmina Augusta (Minna) Rauschert (1876–1937) from Strasbourg from around 1898 and had three children with her: Maria (1900–1914), Wilhelm Rudolf (1901–1944) and Theodor Wilhelm Anton (* 1903; † unknown). Theodor Düren became a court clerk trained and received his doctorate in 1931 , Dr. jur. ; Wilhelm Düren was a merchant and the administrator of his father's estate, last worked (also) as a writer and died on the Eastern Front in World War II.

literature

  • Horstheider man : Godesberger industrial history I . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 48 (2010), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2011, pp. 96-134 (here: p. 116 -132). (unchanged in Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg (ed.); Horst Heidermann: The development of industry in the seaside resort of Godesberg . Bad Godesberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816445-0-0 , pp. 68-86.)
  • Götz Denzinger: "A lasting memory created by his works": Theodor Wilhelm Düren, a Godesberg building contractor . In: Bonner Geschichtswerkstatt (Ed.): “How wonderful it smells like Eau de Cologne”: Bad Godesberg - a historical reading book , Bonn 2008, pp. 93–99.

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b Horstheider man: Godesberger industrial history I . P. 116.
  2. ↑ Obituary in General-Anzeiger , July 9, 1928, p. 7 ( online )
  3. ↑ a b c d Horstheider man: Godesberger industrial history I . P. 120.
  4. ^ Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV (Ed.); Horst Heidermann: The development of industry in the seaside resort of Godesberg . Bad Godesberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816445-0-0 , p. 24.
  5. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb (= city ​​traces, monuments in Cologne , volume 8). JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 813.
  6. ↑ Horstheider man: Godesberger industrial history I . P. 117.
  7. ↑ a b c Horstheider man: Godesberger industrial history I . P. 118.
  8. ↑ today Koblenzer Straße (→ entry in the Bonn street cadastre)
  9. ↑ today Alte Bahnhofstraße (→ entry in Bonn street cadastre)
  10. ↑ Horstheider man: Godesberger industrial history I . P. 127.
  11. ^ Quellenstrasse 1 , on the slope above today's Dechant-Heimbach-Strasse
  12. ↑ Horstheider man: Godesberger industrial history I . P. 123.
  13. ↑ Horstheider man: Godesberger industrial history I . P. 131/132.
  14. ↑ 1963 rebuilt or broken off; Today at the Kurpark 5a
  15. ↑ Horstheider man: Godesberger industrial history I . P. 122.
  16. ↑ a b Horstheider man: Godesberger industrial history I . P. 125.
  17. ↑ from 1978 Am Büchel 53 (→ Am Büchel in the Bonn street cadastre); 1974 / 75–1986 Residence of the Finnish Ambassador, canceled in 1995
  18. ↑ a b c Horstheider man: Godesberger industrial history I . P. 119.
  19. ↑ The grave was sold in 1973.
  20. ↑ Horstheider man: Godesberger industrial history I . P. 126/127.
  21. ^ Entry in the Bonn street cadastre
  22. ↑ Presumably author of publications at the Bonn university printing house Gebr. Scheur 1929 and at Verlag Ludwig Röhrscheid 1934–1940 (→ data set in the catalog of the German National Library )
  23. ↑ Horstheider man: Godesberger industrial history I . Pp. 117, 126.
personal data
SURNAME Düren, Theodor Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building contractor
DATE OF BIRTH 1866
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1928
Place of death bad Godesberg