Joseph Thyssen

Who was Joseph Thyssen?

Joseph Thyssen, also Josef Thyssen, was a German industrialist. He was the son of Friedrich Thyssen and the younger brother of August Thyssen, who was also his closest colleague and confidant.

After working with his brother in the banking business of their father, Thyssen was co-owner since 1877 of August Thyssen Styrum Mill Thyssen & Co. He held this position in various supervisory and management bodies of the Thyssen Group. Among other things, he was a Foundation Board member of the Mülheim Mining Association from 1898. In 1900 he moved with his family to his newly built Villa Josef Thyssen by the River Ruhr.

In 1880 he married the daughter Klara Bagel, of a Mülheim publishers family. The couple had three children: Julius, Johanna and Hans. In 1915 Joseph Thyssen died by an accident at work in the Mülheim plants, falling between two rail car buffers during an evening patrol. He was buried in the Old Cemetery in Mülheim an de Ruhr.

taken from Wikipedia, translated by Google Translator.