(Johann) Friedrich William (* 10. August 1799 in Dortmund, "† 31. July 1891 in Neheim (today city Arnsberg)) sour countries an entrepreneur was.

came of to a civil Dortmunder family, which is provable at the latest since the 16.Jahrhundert in the city and beside buyers also lawyer brought out. They belonged certainly to the wealthy urban and were involved as city judges, advice relatives and city treasurers in the autonomy.

The future prospects of the young Johann Friedrich were thus protruding. However it already lost its father with two years. There his nut/mother it year 1804 their brother-in-law, the wine merchant and buyer William knight house (from the founder family of the later knight brewery), married, buildup he in the family of his stepfather. In the year 1811 lost also its nut/mother, however knight house remained and visited from 1810 to 1814 the High School in Dortmund at the family. Afterwards it completed commercial teachings. After its teachings made a journey abroad of several weeks in the year 1818 to Belgium and visited thereby glassworks, metallurgical plants, cannon factories and other modern enterprises.

In the year 1820 it accepted a position in the colonial goods wholesale business and Essigfabrik of Peter Overbeck. As a commercial traveller it was particularly in the sour country and winner country active. It came also to Neheim. This city did not only suffer at that time from the consequences of a devastating city fire in the year 1804. In addition a profound economic crisis came, since so far to some extent the important home-commercial textile industry of the competition of the English manufactured goods had already to a large extent succumbed. The municipality changed itself gradually to a field citizen city without considerable commercial meaning.

A location factor was therefore a considerable number of favorable workers which the beginnings of the industrial development positively affected. The original commercial commitment of was however rather traditionally aligned with the enterprise of an oil mill and a Spezereihandlung. He worked on behalf the company Overbeck and referred a small part of the conversion as content. In the year 1828 married the Dortmunder buyer daughter Luise Christine Wilhelmine Friederike Boecking and acquired 1829 the Neheimer citizen right. In the following decades developed its landed property in Neheim, in order to be able to extend its blossoming company. In the year 1831 Josef Cosack - a further industrial pioneer Neheims - became the partner of the company and Overbeck.

In the year 1838 the three partners began to go beyond the rather preindustrial framework and created 1839 in the neighbouring a Puddlings and a rolling mill. The enterprise could not hold itself however and for and Overbeck will step out of this project. Nevertheless thereby the bases for the 1845 created trade union were put ". Also at the zinc and building of remaining suppl. in Ramsbeck took part financially since 1840. While could sell its portions in Ramsbeck 1851 with large profit, its capital commitment in the developing hard coal mining industry did not disburse itself.

In the year 1844 Overbeck from the common company in Neheim separated. In the consequence 3/5 and Cosack 2/5 held the enterprise before 1846 the portions completely into the hand from changed. Since that time the company under the name firmierte ". It was essentially based also further on the processing and selling of agrarian products. Among other things transferred an oil mill to Hamm.

The transition to the industrial entrepreneur took place since 1853, although the mill enterprises remained also further in the possession of the enterprise. In this year as well as Cosack, Carl wagoner and in Hamm created the iron works Cosack&Co. (the later union Hamm). In approximately in this time oil lamp production began itself to spread finished good production gradually in Neheim and this branch of the metal metallindustriellen became the basis of the light industry in this city, dominating later. With of financial support it came to the establishment of a metal goods factory of the two manufacturers Franz hunter and Gustav penalty. In the year 1871 a conversion and the enterprise took place were called hunter and CO. "(since that time later also the third partner was accepted in the names and the company short was called hunters and penalty ", BJB).

The enterprise developed in the following decades to the largest Neheimer industrial company with approximately 500 persons employed. It specialized in the production of burner for petroleum lamps and became after the turn of the century a central producer of construction units for the production of electrical lights.

took part beyond the narrower business range also in the establishment industrie and of the Chamber of Commerce to Arnsberg, recruited already 1849 for the building of the Ruhr valley course, occurred for the public welfare service for work-unable, promoted the Evangelist church municipality in the catholic Neheim and was one the joint founder of the Neheimer of hunter association. Also at the establishment of the local savings bank was involved. Even at a kind "citizens' initiative" for the mechanism of a road lighting it participated. Into the 1840er years was in addition member in the Provinziallandtag.

As official acknowledgment for its earnings/services he was appointed as von Wilhelm II. the secret Kommerzienrat. Shortly thereafter it died 1891 in Neheim.

Literature

• Ernst Rehermann: Johann Friedrich William . In: Yearbook high sour district Jg.1990. S.134f.
• Barbara Gerstein: Friedrich William . In: Rheinisch Wirtschaftsbiographien. Bd.11. 1988. S.142-162.
• BJB (Hrsg.): In the center: The light. 125 years integration into industrial history Neheims. Arnsberg, 1992.

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