{"id":141839,"date":"1911-05-20T19:07:00","date_gmt":"1911-05-20T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oudaalten.nl\/niet-gecategoriseerd\/herman-driessen\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:22:05","slug":"herman-driessen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oudaalten.nl\/en\/society\/population\/biography\/herman-driessen\/","title":{"rendered":"Herman Driessen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Herman Anton Frans Carl Maria Driessen (Aalten, 1831-09-22 \u2013 Aalten, 1911-05-20) was a textile manufacturer of great significance to Aalten’s textile history<\/a>. He was the son of textile manufacturer Anton Driessen<\/a> and Isabella Dees. In 1862, he married Anna Maria Theodora M\u00fchren, a merchant’s daughter, in Neuenkirchen near Rheine (Germany). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 1863, he and his wife moved into a newly built house<\/a> on the corner of Landstraat and Hoekstraat, at the location where his father had operated a cotton mill from 1827 to 1862.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1893, Herman Driessen retired from the management of Gebroeders Driessen<\/a>. Together with his son Joseph, he founded a modern steam weaving mill with 34 looms at ‘het Blik’ on Hofstraat: the NV Stoomweverij Herman Driessen & Zoon<\/a>, often abbreviated as HDZ. Alongside the factory, Herman’s new home was also built: the stately Villa Beukenhof<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herman Driessen is buried at the old Roman Catholic cemetery<\/a><\/strong> on Piet Heinstraat in Aalten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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