Willy van Delden

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Willy van Delden (born October 30, 1890 in Ahaus ; † September 27, 1977 ) was a German textile manufacturer.

Life

Origin and family

Willy van Delden came from an old family of manufacturers that had their origins in the Netherlands. His great-grandfather Jan van Delden (* 1798 in Deventer) was a manufacturer and married to Maria Elisabeth Sluiters. The marriage resulted in twelve children, including Gerrit van Delden , founder of the Van Delden textile group in Gronau. His grandfather Friederich Theodor (* 1826 Nortdhorn) was a doctor in Emden and married to Martha Brons. His parents were Jan van Delden and Julia van Heek. On March 4, 1922, he married Bertha Haasemann in Bremen. The marriage resulted in five sons and one daughter.

Companies

He completed his training in 1915 with a doctorate in engineering. from and was chairman of the Westphalian jute spinning and weaving mill, founded in 1883 by his father Jan, his brother Ysaak and the Gronau great uncles Gerrit and Matthieu, Europe's largest jute factory . In 1972 the company was renamed Textilwerke Ahaus AG and in 1987 it was taken over by the Gronau cotton spinning mill (part of the van Delden group ). In 1999 the company went bankrupt. In 1958 the company celebrated its 75th anniversary. On this occasion the city council of Ahaus awarded him and his cousin Gerrit Jan honorary citizenship of the city on July 14, 1958 in recognition of their services. Willy van Delden was chairman of the Westphalian textile industry association.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Münsterland newspaper of February 23, 2001
  2. ↑ Ahaus City Archives, letters of honorary citizenship
personal data
SURNAME Delden, Willy van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahaus
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1977