Georg Dassel
{{Short description|German industrialist, philanthropist and politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Georg Dassel
| office = Member of the Landtag of Province of Westphalia
| image = Georg Dassel sen..png
| constituency = Arnsberg
| birth_name = Georg Anton Dassel
| spouse = {{marriage|Maria Karoline Hassenkamp|1880|1931|end=d.}}
| children = 8
| birth_date = {{birth date|1852|12|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, German Empire
| nationality = German
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1934|03|08|1852|12|22}}
| death_place = Allagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Nazi Germany
| occupation = Industrialist, quarry owner, marble manufacturer, philanthropist and politician
| branch = 2nd Westphalian Regiment
| allegiance = {{flagicon|Prussia}} Kingdom of Prussia
| rank = Military volunteer
| serviceyears = 1871-1872
| residence = Dassel Mansion, Allagen, Germany
| termstart = 1917
| termend = 1919
}}
Georg Anton Dassel ({{IPAc-en|d|ɑː|s|s|ə|l}}; {{Respell|dass-əl}}; 22 December 1852 – 8 March 1934){{Cite web |title=Georg Anton Dassel (1852-1934) - Find a Grave... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/245037477/georg-anton-dassel |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=www.findagrave.com |language=en}} was a German industrialist, marble manufacturer, philanthropist and politician. Dassel was the majority owner of the Westphalian Marble Works (German: Westfälische Marmorwerke AG).{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2l9CCobsZcC&q=georg+dassel+allagen |title=Mineral Wealth |date=1968 |publisher=Directorate of Geology & Mining, Government of Gujarat |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QIYnAQAAMAAJ&q=georg+dassel+allagen |title=Who Owns Whom |date=1969 |publisher=O. W. Roskill. |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Ellerbrock |first1=Karl-Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRmIAAAAIAAJ&q=georg+dassel,+warstein |title=Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im südöstlichen Westfalen: die IHK zu Arnsberg und ihr Wirtschaftsraum im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert |last2=Bessler-Worbs |first2=Tanja |date=2001 |publisher=Gesellschaft für westfälische Wirtschaftsgeschichte |isbn=978-3-87023-192-7 |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=Der Patriot. 1935-1943 - Mittwoch, 07.10.1936 - Deutsches Zeitungsportal |url=https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper/item/RWEKOGII4GSR3ZHOX5MG5OB65K3D7WR2?query=Georg+Dassel&hit=3&issuepage=6 |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de}} He served several terms as a member of the Landtag Province of Westphalia for the Arnsberg district. In 1887, Dassel acquired the historic neoclassical Dassel Mansion (now an official landmark of Warstein and local museum), and renovated it to its current state.{{Cite web |title=Geschichte – Haus Dassel |url=https://www.hausdassel.de/haus-dassel/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |language=de-DE}} His eldest son, Georg, Jr., married Margarete 'Grete' Siepmann, a daughter of Hugo Siepmann.
Early life and education
Dassel was born on 22 December 1852 in Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, German Empire to Ludwig Anton Dassel (1822-1888) and Johanna Sophie Helene (née Buddeberg; 1827–1894). His paternal lineage is an offspring of the noble Dassel family.{{Cite book |last=Kruppa |first=Nathalie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ce5nAAAAMAAJ |title=Die Grafen von Dassel (1097-1337/38) |date=2002 |publisher=Verlag für Regionalgeschichte |isbn=978-3-89534-392-6 |language=de}} He attended the private school of Wilhelm Herchenbach and then completed the Realgymnasium in Düsseldorf. Between 1868 and 1870 he completed a commercial apprenticeship with I.P. Rittenhaus & Company, an international textile concern, active in Turkey, Africa and India.{{Cite web |title=Bürener Zeitung. 1896-1935 - Mittwoch, 21.12.1932 - Deutsches Zeitungsportal |url=https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper/item/SISLKZ4VG4VQNDUL544M6GTYTSVCECK6?query=dassel+allagen&hit=4&issuepage=8 |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de}}
Career
During the Franco-Prussian War, he led the company, after many of its male employees were drafted into the war. Between 1879 and 1881 he worked as an employee for a private bank in Düsseldorf. Since 1881, he has been active in the stone industry. He took a stake in a marble company and opened a grinding shop in Reichenbach, from which Deutsche Steinindustrie AG emerged. Finally, he became self-employed by taking over the operations of the Westfälische Marmorwerke AG in Allagen (“Victoriawerke”), which had been shut down for a number of years, and which he reopened in 1886. Acquisitions such as that of a competing plant in Borghausen (1894), Liethammer (1898) and the Syenit plant in Schönberg (1900) followed.{{Cite web |title=Firma – Haus Dassel |url=https://www.hausdassel.de/das-unternehmen-dassel/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |language=de-DE}}
Politics
Dassel served as a member of the provincial legislature, Landtag of the Province of Westphalia from 1917 to 1919.{{Cite web |title=Bürener Zeitung. 1896-1935 - Mittwoch, 21.12.1932 - Deutsches Zeitungsportal |url=https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper/item/SISLKZ4VG4VQNDUL544M6GTYTSVCECK6?query=dassel+allagen&hit=4&issuepage=8 |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de}}Dassel, Anton Georg. In: Alfred Bruns (Hrsg.): Die Abgeordneten des Westfalenparlaments 1826–1978: Nachtrag 1983. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1984, S. 54. (in German)
Personal life
Since 1880, Dassel has been married to Marie Karoline (née Hassenkamp; 1862–1931),Obituary of Marie Hassenkamp Dassel
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper/item/JGEAWBPHRZ2XZGEQLQPOVS6CQH2Q5G4F?query=Georg+Dassel&hit=2&issuepage=4{{Cite web |title=Georg Dassel, der Unternehmer – Haus Dassel |url=https://www.hausdassel.de/allagen/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |language=de-DE}} with whom he had eight children;
- Georg Dassel, Jr. (1881-1944), married Grete Siepmann, a daughter of Hugo Siepmann, owner and resident of Dassel Mansion from 1934 to 1944. Four sons; Georg Hugo Rolf (1922-1944), Klaus Dassel (1924-1985), Walter (1929-2017) and Bernd (1940-2001){{Cite web |title=Georg Dassel jun. – Haus Dassel |url=https://www.hausdassel.de/georg-dassel-jun/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |language=de-DE}}
- Paul Dassel (1882-1924), owner of quarry in Wallen, never married.{{Cite web |title=Paul Dassel – Haus Dassel |url=https://www.hausdassel.de/paul-dassel/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |language=de-DE}}
- Else Dassel (1886-1968)
- Hans Walter Dassel (1887-1929)
- Arthur Christian Erich Dassel (1892-1956){{Cite web |title=Erich Dassel -Bürgermeister – Haus Dassel |url=https://www.hausdassel.de/erich-dassel/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |language=de-DE}} mayor of Allagen (1945–56) and namesake of Erich-Dassel-Strasse, resided in Sichtigvor
Dassel died aged 81 at Dassel Mansion in Allagen, Germany.
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Category:German industrialists