Von der Becke (entrepreneurial family)

von der Becke is the name of an entrepreneurial family in the Sauerland , which helped shape the industrial history of Iserlohn and Hemer .

Johann Bernhard von der Becke (1655–1730) began manufacturing iron buckles and clasps in Iserlohn in 1690, and from 1698 in Sundwig. A short time later he also started making thimbles and sewing rings. In 1712 his son Johann Dietrich von der Becke explored techniques for making them in the Netherlands. Johann later founded the Sundwiger brass factory . Heinrich and his brother Johann Adolph took over the business in 1758.

Heinrich von der Becke bought the paper mill in Dieken in 1805 and converted it into a paper mill in 1838. Production was shut down in 1860, and Felix von der Becke founded a metal goods factory on the site.

The family is related to the Iserlohn entrepreneurial family Basse.

Representative

• Johann Karl von der Becke (1756–1830), lawyer and minister in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Diehl:  Basse, Detmar Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 620 f. ( Digitized version ).