Bovensiepen is a

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

-origined German family from

Mettmann Mettmann () is a town in the northern part of the Bergisches Land, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Mettmann, Germany's most densely populated rural district. The town lies east of Düsseldorf ...

in the

Rhineland The Rhineland (german: Rheinland; french: Rhénanie; nl, Rijnland; ksh, Rhingland; Latinised name: ''Rhenania'') is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section. Term Historically, the Rhinelands ...

, members of whom have been noted as industrialists and academics. The family has had branches in the Rhineland, Hesse and Bavaria. A branch of the family were owners of the still extant leading precision machine making company Peter Wolters GmbH (founded in

in 1804 and relocated to

Rendsburg Rendsburg ( da, Rendsborg, also ''Rensborg'', nds, Rendsborg, also ''Rensborg'') is a town on the River Eider and the Kiel Canal in the central part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the ''Kreis'' (district) of Rendsburg-Ecke ...

in 1975) from 1892, after Friedrich Bovensiepen had married Ida Wolters, a daughter of the firm's founder Johann Peter Wolters (1777–1850). Among his descendants were the legal scholar Rudolf Bovensiepen, married to Baroness Elisabeth Emma von der Goltz. They were the parents of the factory owner Otto Rudolf Bovensiepen, whose company produced office machinery, and who was the father of Burkard Bovensiepen, who founded the

Alpina Burkard Bovensiepen Alpina Burkard Bovensiepen GmbH & Co. KG is an automobile manufacturing company based in Buchloe, in the Ostallgäu district of Bavaria, Germany that develops and sells high-performance versions of BMW cars. Alpina works closely with BMW and ...

automobile manufacturing company.''

Genealogisches Handbuch bürgerlicher Familien The ''Deutsches Geschlechterbuch'', until 1943 known as the ''Genealogisches Handbuch bürgerlicher Familien'', is a major German genealogical handbook of bourgeois or patrician families. It is the bourgeois and patrician equivalent of the ''Genea ...

'', Vol. 54, p. 221, 1927 The physician Gustav Bovensiepen (born 1910 in Mettmann) was married to Esther Elisabeth von Kluge, daughter of General Field Marshal

Günther von Kluge Günther Adolf Ferdinand von Kluge (30 October 1882 – 19 August 1944) was a German field marshal during World War II who held commands on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. He commanded the 4th Army of the Wehrmacht during the invasion o ...

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