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Hospelt, Familien- und FirmenarchivIn 1964, Adolf von Lauff donated the estate of his father, the Rhenish poet Joseph von Lauff (1855-1933), to the city of Cologne. He had married the daughter of the Cologne factory owner and city councillor Wilhelm Anton Hospelt (1820-1893) Josephine Hospelt in 1882. Therefore, the company and family archive Hospelt, which had fallen to the family through inheritance (via Artur Hospelt?), was also part of the Lauff estate. This was separated from the Lauff estate (Order 1170) when it was taken over and set up as a separate portfolio (Order 1175). On the occasion of the review and order of the Lauff estate, the Hospelt estate was also rearranged. Some of the documents still in the Lauff estate on the Hospelt ink works (original minutes of shareholders' meetings; managing director correspondence Adolf v. Lauff) were incorporated into this collection. In the Lauff estate only those files remained which had arisen as a result of Lauff's share as a shareholder of Farbwerke. The archives of the Hospelt collection comprise four archive cartons. They were arranged roughly, the company files according to subject groups, the family papers according to persons. The order found was maintained - even if it mixed the provenances in various ways - but more strongly structured. The individual pieces were summarized and briefly characterized under Subject resulting from the respective existing material. The descendants' tables attached to the index are intended to clarify the family relationships and the inheritance of the company shares of Farbwerke Hospelt. On July 2, 1844, Wilhelm Anton Hospelt opened a colonial material and paint shop in the house at Apostelstr. 9 in Cologne. 1879/80 Acquisition of the bankrupt Aktiengesellschaft für chemische Bleiprodukte und Farben in Ehrenfeld - 1893 Conversion of the company into a GmbH (limited liability company), in which the heirs of W.A. Hospelt, who died in 1893, became partners with a certain share in the share capital. 1893-19o4 Jean Hospelt sole managing director - financial difficulties at the end of the twenties which forced the reduction of the share capital (1932 and 1936) - almost complete destruction in the 2nd world war - 1944 centenary of the company - 1946-1955 reconstruction under the managing directors Adolf v. Lauff, Paul du Mont and Max Fackeldey - 1946-1955 reconstruction of the company by the managing directors Adolf v. Lauff, Paul du Mont and Max Fackeldey 1973 The company ceases to exist. Wilhelm Anton Hospelt (1820-1893); Jean (Johann Hubert) Hospelt (1852-1904), factory owner; Emeline Hospelt née de Ball (1862-1940), women's politician, social politician. includes among othersWilhelm Anton Hospelt: marriage and birth certificates, certificates; private cash books (1881-1893), honorary offices and memberships in associations (1851-1880), invitations (1861-1884), correspondence with Vincenz Statz (1861-1879), his wife Elisabeth Breiderhoff (1883-1884) and others; political appeals (1856, 1963, n. d.).Jean (Johann Hubert) Hospelt: documents (1881-1904), professional certificates (1873-1904), memberships in associations, invitations (1872-1904), family celebrations; correspondence with relatives and acquaintances (1872-1893); marriage process of the son Wilhelm Anton Hospelt before the S. R. Rota, Rome (1913) Emeline Hospelt: personal documents; activities in associations: Catholic German Women's Association - Zweigverein Köln (1913-1937), Sozial-Karitative Gemeinschaft St. Georgshaus (1927-1930), Frauenbund der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft, Dep. Cologne (1913-1940), war aids (1915-1917), memberships in associations; correspondence with parents and siblings (1876-1939), friends (1882-1926); letters, personal documents of parents Felix de Ball and Sophia Hedding as well as their siblings Felice, Alwin, Lothar and Rudolf; collection of genealogy material; book of the dead of the Hospelt family. Hospelt: transformation into a GmbH, later AG (1893-1902), correspondence with the partners, partnership agreement (1899-1944); minutes of the general meeting (1904-1945), balance sheets (1893-1943), monthly reports (1905-1945), appointment of a managing director (1921-1946), managing director correspondence (1891-1946); collection of materials on the history of the company.The files remaining in the Lauff estate relating to the Farbwerke Hospelt as well as the documents and letters of members of the Hospelt family in the possession of Josephine v. Lauff are to be used as additions to the holdings: Johann Scherer: Wilhelm Anton Hospelt (1820-1893), Cologne 1956, 23 pages.