Wernhard Dilthey

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Wernhard Dilthey (born June 16, 1752 in Langenberg (Rhineland) , † September 25, 1831 in Rheydt ) was a German entrepreneur in the textile industry .

Life

Wernhard Dilthey, who was born in 1752 as the son of the pastor of the evangelical-reformed congregation in Langenberg, Henrich Dilthey (1705–1757), and his wife Henriette Dilthey, b. Overbeck (1711–1795) was born in Altena , where he completed a commercial apprenticeship . In 1779 he founded a cotton goods store in Elberfeld , in which his nephew Johann Heinrich Bergfeld later participated.

After separating from Bergfeld, he moved to Kalkar , from where he built a cotton spinning mill in Neuss in 1794/1795 , a weaving mill in Rheydt in 1796 , another weaving mill in Neuss in 1802/1803 and another spinning mill in Odenkirchen near Rheydt in 1806 . The Neuss factories and the Odenkirchen spinning mill were liquidated between 1806 and 1808 .

In 1803 at the latest, Dilthey moved his residence to Rheydt, where he expanded the business there to include a linen weaving mill and later a velvet and silk manufacture. In 1810 he founded a higher school on a private basis together with eight other citizens of Rheydt. Between 1811 and 1823 he served first as the second and later as the first alderman of the city.

Wernhard Dilthey married the innkeeper daughter Johanna Maria Wüsten (1764–1834) in 1792, with whom he had four sons; he died in 1831.

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SURNAME Dilthey, Wernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur in the textile industry
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenberg (Rhineland)
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1831
Place of death Rheydt