G19 · Altenbochum line · Altenbochum · Bochum · Essen
As merchant, archivist, and family historian, Heinrich Theodor preserved the family memory. His research, chronicle, and archival estate remain essential foundations of our work.
Key facts and family background
Heinrich Theodor was the youngest child of Heinrich Wilhelm Friemann and Agnes Kabeisemann. He received a commercial education, remained a partner in the family business until 1924, and later worked in a scholarly capacity in the Krupp company archives. He never married and had no children; his family chronicle and archival estate in the Bochum City Archives became his lasting legacy.
Basis: Family Chronicle, Volume 1 · archival estate in the Bochum City Archives
In honor of the family historian
Heinrich Theodor’s genealogical and archival work laid a foundation for our present research and documentation. His archival estate, accessible in the Bochum City Archives, provides further notes and findings. His conclusions are starting points and guides; wherever possible, we re-examine them against original sources.
He left no descendants—but he preserved the family’s memory.
The biographical account
Documented facts, family relationships, and historical interpretation are kept clearly distinguishable.
After grammar school and the Higher Commercial School, Heinrich Theodor completed practical training with the Rhenish-Westphalian Cement Syndicate. Before the First World War he temporarily managed the office of a field-railway factory in Chemnitz.
After his father’s death, Heinrich Theodor joined the Wilhelm Friemann grain distillery and yeast factory as a partner in 1909. Until 1924 he experienced war, inflation, and the economic uncertainty of the early Weimar Republic within the business.
Alongside his profession, he pursued archival study and genealogy with great care. From 1941 to 1945 he worked in a scholarly role in the Krupp company archives. The chronicle explicitly places this work in the context of a company involved in armaments production. His familiarity with archives also shaped his systematic study of his own family history.
Heinrich Theodor died in 1967 without descendants. His family chronicle and archival estate in the Bochum City Archives nevertheless left an exceptional foundation. Many of our present assumptions, research paths, and records build on his work. They merit recognition—and continued verification against charters and other original sources.
Source note This biographical account follows the presentation and references in Friemann aus Altenbochum—Family Chronicle, Volume 1, fourth edition, 2026. Missing partner names, descendants, and uncertain details remain explicitly identified. Historical reconstructions do not replace individual documentary evidence.