Wilhelm Stiegeler

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Wilhelm Stiegeler (born February 7, 1871 in Müllheim (Baden) , † July 6, 1939 in Konstanz ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur.

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Wilhelm Stiegeler came from a family of craftsmen in the Markgräflerland . As a twelve year old he was sent to Konstanz to attend secondary school. In 1885 he began a commercial apprenticeship with Max Stromeyer , an important industrialist and former Lord Mayor of Konstanz, who restructured his company several times during this time and finally the “M. Stromeyer Lagerhausgesellschaft ”, a rapidly growing coal business, in which Stiegeler had been an authorized signatory since 1890 and, since Stromeyer's death in 1902, the only personally liable partner. Soon the warehouse company had storage locations in Ruhrort , Neuss , Rheinau (Mannheim) , Kehl , Strasbourg , Freiburg im Breisgau and Stuttgart ; there were also missions abroad. The sales area of ​​the warehouse company in 1914 included Switzerland, Austria, Northern Italy, Luxembourg, France and Belgium. The warehouse company maintained a large fleet of ships on the Rhine to transport the coal: in 1911 it acquired the majority of the “Rheinschiffahrt Aktiengesellschaft” in Mannheim.

During the First World War, Stiegeler was involved in the exploitation of Belgian coal production, for which he was awarded the title of Commerzienrat . During the war, Stiegeler took up the production of briquettes in factories in Kehl and Frankfurt am Main . After the war he imported coal for German and Austrian railways via Rotterdam . Since the mid-1920s, the warehouse company rose under Stiegeler's leadership to become the largest coal and fuel dealer in southern Germany, expanded to include the fertilizer trade. The global economic crisis brought the company into difficulties and forced the inclusion of the mining company Hibernia AG in Herne and the mining company Recklinghausen as shareholders.

Wilhelm Stiegeler advocated making the High Rhine navigable , a project that had been pursued for economic reasons since the 1920s and was only abandoned in the 1970s, now primarily for reasons of landscape protection. Stiegeler was a member of the liberal state party . In addition, Wilhelm Stiegeler cultivated cultural interests. He was a member of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , on whose board he represented the state of Baden from 1938 until his death . In 1918 Stiegeler acquired the site of a former gravel pit on the shores of Lake Constance, on which he had a villa built by Albert Friedrich Speer and a landscape garden laid out; the entire ensemble is now a listed building.

Wilhelm Stiegeler had been with Luise, geb. Noppel, married.

literature

  • Tobias Engelsing : Raw materials important to the war: the entrepreneur Wilhelm Stiegeler . In: ders. (Ed.): In: The border in war. The First World War on Lake Constance. Special exhibition 2014, Rosgarten Museum Konstanz . ( Konstanzer Museumjournal 2014). Rosgarten Museum, Konstanz, 2014, p. 264 f. ISBN 978-3-929768-31-2 .
  • Karl Hönn: Wilhelm Stiegeler. February 7, 1871–6. July 1939 . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . Volume 66, 1939, pp. XIII-XXVI. Digitized
  • Karl Hönn (arrangement): M. Stromeyer Lagerhausgesellschaft 1887–1937. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary . Constance, 1937.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gert Zang : Constance in the grand ducal times. Upswing in the empire (= history of the city of Constance . Volume 4.2). Verlag Stadler, Konstanz, 1990, p. 244.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Ostendorp: The regulation and navigation of Lake Constance. Successful resistance to the mania for feasibility. In: Harald Derschka , Jürgen Klöckler (Hrsg.): Der Bodensee. Nature and history from 150 perspectives. Anniversary volume of the international association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings 1868–2018. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2018, p. 290 f.
  3. ↑ Werner Trapp: Constance in the time of National Socialism . In: Lothar Burchardt , Dieter Schott, Werner Trapp: Constance in the 20th century. The years 1914 to 1945 (= history of the city of Konstanz . Volume 5). Verlag Stadler, Konstanz, 1990, pp. 145–220, here p. 214. ISBN 3-7977-242-6 (incorrect).
  4. ↑ Harald Derschka: The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Volume 136, 2018, pp. 1–303, here p. 220.
  5. ^ Homepage of the landscape park of the Stiegeler family. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Stiegeler, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Muellheim (Baden)
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1939
Place of death Constancy