Walter von Nathusius

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Walter von Nathusius (born August 22, 1873 in Erfurt , † November 5, 1943 in Erfurt; full name: Walter Engelhard Julius August von Nathusius ) was a German entrepreneur in the textile industry in Thuringia . He successfully developed a textile trading company into one of the most important stocking producers in Germany of his time.

Life

Since his maternal grandmother came from the Erfurt merchant family Lucius, and there were no male successors in the line, it was decided in the family that Nathusius should take over the Johann Anton Lucius company , founded in 1763 as a wool yarn wholesaler . Accordingly, he was trained early on for commercial activity. In preparation, he did an apprenticeship in Hamburg after finishing school and went to Great Britain. A training he was aiming for also overseas could no longer be implemented.

In 1906 he took over the management of the Lucius company together with the authorized signatory Carl Bender. He quickly expanded the company, previously known primarily as a wholesaler, into a manufacturer with locations in Chemnitz and Schleusingen (Thuringia). Under his leadership, the Pilz brand became a well-known brand for hosiery products in large parts of Germany. Two younger Nathusius brothers joined the Lucius company in 1913 and 1922 as executive employees and later as co-partners: Hans Joachim von Nathusius and Franz Xaver von Nathusius . In 1933 he and his company were involved in the " Lucius stockings scandal " picked up by the right-wing propaganda journal Der Stürmer . In 1941 Nathusius suffered a severe stroke , of which he died in 1943. He did not experience the expropriation of his company after the end of the war.

family

Nathusius was the second eldest son of the Landstallmeister Hans von Nathusius and his wife Marianne von Nathusius born. Buhlers (1849-1916). He had five siblings and spent his youth in Zirke in the province of Posen and in Dillenburg . On January 4th, 1908, Walter von Nathusius married Erika born in Erfurt. Berg (1888–1966), the daughter of Brigadier General Arnold Wilhelm Berg and his wife Ottilie Fanny Berg geb. Martens. The couple had three children, the son Hans Arnold (* 1909) died in Stalingrad in 1943 . The daughter Ursula Maria (* 1912) was press officer at the German embassy in Washington, DC and married the artistic director Ingolf Kuntze . The second daughter, Erika Maria (1917–1954), married Friedrich Freiherr von Wilmowsky (1911–1988), landowner in Germany and South West Africa and the son of Tilo Freiherr von Wilmowsky and Barbara Freifrau von Wilmowsky nee. Croup .

literature

  • Lilly von Nathusius: Johann Gottlob Nathusius (1760–1835) and his descendants as well as his nephew Moritz Nathusius with his descendants. Detmold 1964, p. 58 f.
  • Julius August Max Joseph Maria Walter Engelhard. In: Nathusius (1840, 1861) , I. Line (Hundisburg) (ev. And cath.). In: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 57, Adelige Häuser B Volume XI. Starke, Limburg ad Lahn 1974, p. 309.
  • Wolfgang Ollrog (arrangement): Johann Christoph Gatterer, the founder of scientific genealogy. An examination of the previously known sources and publications about his origins, his life and work as well as his descendants. In: Archive for family research and all related areas with practical research aid, 47th year 1981, issue 81/82, p. 72 f.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The parents' first child died at the age of one week

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Central Institute for History (Ed.): Yearbook for History , Volume 10. German Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1974, p. 353. ( limited preview of Google books )
personal data
SURNAME Nathusius, Walter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nathusius, Walter Engelhard Julius August von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1943
Place of death Erfurt