Friedrich Thyssen

Johann Friedrich Thyssen ( born October 1, 1804 in Aachen, † May 25, 1877 in Eschweiler ) was a businessman and local politician in Eschweiler and the father of industrialist August Thyssen. He founded the family business Thyssen.

Origin

Thyssen's great-grandfather, Isaac Lambert Thyssen (1685-1773), was due to the fire of his estate at Schlott field in the near Aachen, was there in 1740 Heumesser urban, urban pastures oversaw and was responsible for fire protection in the barns. Isaac Lambert's son Nicholas (1727-1778) was a baker and foreman of the local guild. He was, like his father, with the professional associations and with the citizens of Aachen in a trusting relationship, belonged to the small council of the city and led as bread Marktmeister quality controls to baked bread, its weight and its goodness he tested. Nicholas his son of the same Nicholas Thyssen (1763-1814), the father Friedrich Thyssen, also learned the baker's trade, then joined as Deputy Secretary in the services of the city of Aachen in 1811 and organized the festivities on the occasion of the baptism of the son of Napoleon I. He was 1792 married to Christine Nellessen ( 1766-1818 ) who came from a business family in Aachen and was soon involved in the Aachen fire Insurance Company and at the wire factory - Compagnie in Eschweiler.

Life

Youth

Thyssen had the visit of the Higher school in Aachen prematurely because his father died when he, his mother when he was ten 14. This forced into independence, he took a commercial education, especially as a bank clerk with his uncle Mathias Wergivosse.

Independence

Thyssen founded in March 1822 in Aachen, manufacturers Monheim, Friedrich Englerth, Ludwig Beissel and Jacob Spring field in the form of a joint stock company first under the name Wire Factory - Compagnie in Aachen Germany's wire rod mill and had from 1834 to 1859 as director of the technical and commercial management hold of the company. He founded the mid-19th century, a private banking business in Eschweiler.

Principle

For Thyssen work was the focus of his life: he called early in the morning with the factory bell, the workers brought, opened the lock on the Indebach and put the flywheel to drive the machinery in motion. Him impressed thrift, sense of duty and concern for the welfare of the company.

In larger circles

Thyssen was one of the shareholders of the Metallurgical Society of Stolberg on, off the on the initiative of John Cockerill gave rise to the corporation for mining, lead and zinc production, at the next Thyssen and Cockerill et al Ferdinand Pirlot, Barthold Suermondt and Oppenheim jr. were involved.

Congregational involvement

Thyssen served as a city councilor of Eschweiler and belonged - for several years as chairman - the Catholic church council at. He saw the industrial capitalism not unilaterally from the perspective of the entrepreneur and to be also aware of the problems of urbanization and the social question.

Private contacts

In Thyssen's home wrong and Others Barthold Suermondt, the entrepreneur Albert Poensgen and Thyssen's friend George Victor Lynen.

Family

On 1 October 1838 he married his first cousin in Aachen Katharina Thyssen ( born September 28, 1814 Aachen, † February 11, 1888 in Dusseldorf ), the daughter of the Aachen Spezereiwarenhändlers Isaak Thyssen, who staged himself facing as art and education. The marriage produced nine children were born: Mary (1839-1912), Louise (1840-1902), August (1842-1926), Joseph (1844-1915), Balbina (1846-1935), Julius (1848-1849), Wilhelmine (1850-1858), Friedrich (1854-1916) and Therese ( 1860-1920 ).

Afterlife

After Thyssen named his eldest son August Friedrich Thyssen in Duisburg foot the bill.