Georg Adolf Carl von Opel (31 August 1869 – 16 February 1927Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR Best. 903 No. 10931 p. 133)), known as Georg Adolf Carl Opel before being ennobled in 1918, was a bank specialist and industrialist of the Opel family and one of the founders of the German automobile manufacturer Opel.
Biography
Carl's parents are Adam and Sophie Opel. His father had founded the family firm in 1862 in Rüsselsheim as a manufacturer of sewing machines, and later diversified into bicycle manufacturing. After Adam's death in 1895, control of the company passed to his wife and two of his sons. In 1898, Carl and his brothers Wilhelm and Fritz brought Opel into the automobile industry with the purchase of the small Lutzmann automobile factory at Dessau.
On 30 May 1895Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR Best. 903 No. 9541 p. 155) he married Helena Wilhelmine Mouson, daughter of Johann Jacob Mouson and of Eleonore Dorothea Hock. He had two sons and two daughters, Johann Jacques, Georg, Sophie and Eleonore.
On 17 January 1918 in Darmstadt, Carl was raised to the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, one year later than his brothers Wilhelm and Heinrich. In the same year he was appointed as privy councillor.
Carl von Opel was a member of the Corps Franconia Darmstadt.Peter Heß: Chronik des Corps Franconia Darmstadt 1998, S. 615
The name the 'Opel Karl' small car built in 2015 is an homage to this Opel ancestry.
See also
Adam Opel Wilhelm von Opel Sophie Opel Fritz von Opel Rikky von Opel
Literatur
Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Band X, Band 119 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, . (genealogical information only, original article of all familymembers on Opel, Friedrich Karl Adam Georg von)
External links
Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08 e.V.: Über Mitglieder des RRK (1927): Carl von Opel. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
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