Wilhelm Garvens (industrialist)

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Garvens , first name Wilhelm , ennobled in 1908 with the addition of his name to von Garvens-Garvensburg (born July 31, 1841 in Hanover ; † February 14, 1913 ibid) was a German businessman and entrepreneur .

family

His father, the businessman Theodor Heinrich Garvens (1805-1890), was co-owner of by his partner, the merchant Senator Carl Wilhelm Round (* August 16, 1785; † February 3, 1859), named company for "material, Colonial- , Drug and paint trade in wholesaling and in detail ”, and after his death the sole owner. In 1865 he founded a machine and pump factory, which in 1872/1873 became the Garvens & Comp. emerged. During the war years of 1870/1871 , the company built the Abyssinian well pumps that were known at the time .

Wilhelm Garvens married Wilhelmine Helene Elisabeth Fiedeler (1849–1920), the daughter of the brickworks and manor owner Carl Georg Fiedeler , on October 20, 1868 in Döhren . The marriage produced two daughters and two sons.

Act

Wilhelm worked in his father's company and in the early 1870s founded the Commandit-Gesellschaft für Pumpen- und Maschinenfabrikation W. Garvens , which ten years later was the largest company of its kind in Europe. In 1879 he founded a branch in Vienna with the help of Philipp Götzl , who became director there. From Vienna Garvens supplied the countries of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the Balkan countries. Wilhelm Garvens also took over the management of the company Garvens & Comp. , which specialized in the manufacture of scales and weighing machines, from household scales to railway scales, and was relocated to Wülfel in 1883 . In 1899 both works were combined under the name Garvenswerke .

1894–1898 Wilhelm Garvens had the Garvensburg built in Züschen in the style of historicism . To build the bridge over the Eder in Wega in 1894/1895 he donated 6,000 Reichsmarks , because he wanted to be able to travel comfortably to and from Bad Wildungen .

In 1904 Garvensstrasse was named after him in Wülfel. In 1908 he was raised to the hereditary nobility by Prince Friedrich von Waldeck and Pyrmont because of his services to the land and people , and from then on he was allowed to call himself von Garvens-Garvensburg .

After his death, his sons Wolfgang and Herbert von Garvens took over the company, which was converted into a stock corporation in 1923 and went bankrupt during the Great Depression in 1930.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Garvens-Garvensburg on www.ortsfamilienbuecher.de , accessed on December 11, 2012
  2. ^ Advertisement of the Commandit-Gesellschaft für Pumpen- und Maschinenfabrikation W. Garvens In: Anzeiger zum Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 2nd year 1882, No. 20 (from May 20, 1882) ( online ), p. 7.
  3. ↑ advertising vignette , accessed on December 11, 2012
  4. ↑ The nearest neighboring communities had to pay a third of the cost of building the bridge. Wega paid 4000 Reichsmarks, Wellen 6000 RM, Züschen 1000 RM. Garvens contributed 6,000 RM, and other private individuals from Wellen and Wildungen raised 745 RM.
  5. ↑ Garvensburg Castle: History - A Citizen's Dream
personal data
SURNAME Garvens, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garvens, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich; Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Garvens; Karl Wilhelm Friedrich of Garvens-Garvensburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1913
Place of death Hanover