Wilhelm Girardet
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Wilhelm Girardet (born June 14, 1838 in Lennep , † May 4, 1918 in Honnef ) was a German bookbinder , printer and publisher .
Life
family
Wilhelm Girardet came from a Huguenot family who immigrated to Burg near Magdeburg from Mizoën in the canton of Le Bourg-d'Oisans . His grandfather Daniel Girardet was a master shoemaker in Szczecin. His father Wilhelm Girardet (1804–1882) was a master bookbinder in Lennep; his mother was Anna Catharina Girardet (1808-1881).
Girardet was married to Elise Girardet, née Mönnigfeld (1843-1888), with whom he had six children, for the first time since 1866. The sons were Wilhelm Girardet (Junior) (1874-1953) and Paul Girardet (1878-1970). His daughter Berta from this marriage was married to Otto Coninx . The daughter Hedwig (* 1882) married the Dutch anatomist Herman Maximilien de Burlet in 1911 , who worked in Katyn in 1943 as a member of the international expert group on the autopsy of the victims of the Katyn massacre . In 1894 Wilhelm Girardet married Gertrud Hetzer (* 1867). From this marriage he had three children. The sons were Kurt Girardet (1900–1986) and Hellmut Girardet (1902–1973).
Act
After an apprenticeship as a bookbinder in his father's company, Wilhelm Girardet worked for five years as a journeyman in Great Britain , France and Switzerland . In 1865 he settled in Essen and founded the graphic works W. Girardet , from which the publishing and printing company W. Girardet KG developed. a. the Westdeutsche Zeitung was created (since 2011 Verlag W. Girardet GmbH & Co. KG). In 1879 he first published the Gazette for Mining, Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering . In 1881 he set up a graphics company and a year later founded the agricultural magazine Feld und Wald . He also published the association magazine of the Sauerland Mountain Club and the magazine Germany .
From 1886 he founded several newspapers of the General-Anzeiger type , e. B. in Leipzig (Leipziger Generalanzeiger), Elberfeld , Hamburg ( General-Anzeiger for Hamburg-Altona 1888, Neue Hamburger Zeitung 1895), Chemnitz , Düsseldorf (Düsseldorfer Nachrichten) and Duisburg .
1893 founded Girardet in Zurich along with former NZZ - editor Fritz Walz the Tages-Anzeiger for the city and canton of Zurich . In 1902 he built a print shop on the banks of the Sihl . This laid the foundation stone for the later headquarters of Tamedia AG.
The entrepreneur Wilhelm Girardet is considered one of the pioneers in the field of company social benefits , so he created one of the first German company health insurance funds for the employees of his company - even before Otto von Bismarck started social legislation in 1883 .
From January 1, 1897 to November 5, 1906, he was a member of the Essen city council . Girardet promoted artists and collected art, and had an art gallery built as an extension to his private residence in Essen's Stadtgarten. He was a co-founder of the Essen Museum, from which the Folkwang Museum emerged in 1922 . For his retirement he had a villa, the Feuerschlößchen , built in Honnef (today Bad Honnef) according to plans by the architect Wilhelm von Tettau , and moved into it in August 1906. There he supported the construction of the Grafenwerther Bridge (1911 / 12). Shortly before moving to Honnef, he had also acquired the Laagshof near Ittenbach with its extensive estates and had it converted and significantly expanded according to plans by Tettaus, especially in order to be able to hold autumn meetings there in his own hunting ground . In 1910 Girardet also acquired the previous Crown Prince's villa in Bonn from the German Imperial House .
Honors
For his extensive social commitment, Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded him the title of Kommerzienrat in 1906 . He wore the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle IV class and was an honorary citizen of the city of Honnef (today Bad Honnef), where he had lived since 1906.
The Girardetstrasse in Essen- Rüttenscheid was named after Wilhelm Girardet , on which the Essen Girardet parent company was located (today's Girardet-Haus, see web links), and which was previously called Gerswidastrasse . The Girardetallee in Bad Honnef was also named after him. There is also a Girardet house in Hamburg, it is on Gänsemarkt (see list of office buildings in Hamburg ). The Girardet Bridge and the Girardet House are on Königsallee (Düsseldorf) .
literature
- Ueli Müller: Girardet, Wilhelm. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Barbara Gerstein: Girardet, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 408 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans-Wolfgang Wolter: Wilhelm Girardet. On the biography of an entrepreneur from the early days. Self-published, Essen 1980.
- Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 117 .
- Meinolf Nowak: Wilhelm Girardet (1838–1918). In: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (Ed.): German press publishers from the 18th to the 20th century. Verlag Documentation, Pullach near Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3604-4 , pp. 181–192.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ueli Müller: Otto Coninx. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 30, 2011 , accessed June 25, 2019 .
- ↑ www.hamburg.de: Hamburg 80 years ago
- ↑ Founder and founding members of the Folkwang Museum Association, 1922
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Girardet, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lennep |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1918 |
| Place of death | Bad Honnef |