Adolf Hueck

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Adolf Hueck

Adolf Hueck (born July 25, 1882 in Hettensen ; † August 10, 1955 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer ) was a German manager in the Ruhr mining industry and a DVP politician.

Life

His parents were Eduard Hueck (1840–1920) and his wife Hedwig Luise Schimmel (1844–1932), a daughter of General Friedrich Schimmel . His father was the owner of the Hettensen manor until 1910.

After graduating from high school, Hueck began practical mining training in the form of a one-year internship at the Hamburg and Franziskaner mines in the Witten district. He then studied the basic natural science subjects of the mountain subject at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . With Fritz Lindenmaier he became active in the Corps Rhenania Tübingen . The reception was on November 23, 1901. As an inactive person he moved to the TH Berlin and the RWTH Aachen . Hueck became a mountain trainee in 1904 and a mountain assessor in 1909. During this time he went on an extensive study tour to the mining areas in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States . After his return he entered the civil service for a short time before Hueck accepted a job with the association for mining interests . In 1912 he became the operations director of mine shafts at Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG (GBAG). Hueck was a soldier in World War I and was discharged from the military in 1916 after being seriously wounded.

He then headed two mines in Witten, before he took over the management of the Rheinelbe colliery and the Alma colliery in Gelsenkirchen in 1918 . There he was also responsible for building a coking plant. From 1920 he was a member of the GBAG board. After the United Stahlwerke AG (VESTAG) was founded in 1926, he also sat on its board. From 1927 he was the technical director of the Bonifacius colliery . He was mainly responsible for the technical and organizational modernization of the Ruhr mining industry. He was significantly involved in the beginning of mining under the Rhine . As a member of mining organizations such as the Association for Mining Interests, Hueck was also involved in the expansion of gas protection weirs in the coal and steel industry in 1930.

After 1918, Hueck joined the German People's Party . For them he sat from 1928 to 1930 in the Reichstag (Weimar Republic) . There, too, he was primarily the guardian of mining and employers' interests. In the 1930 unemployment insurance debate, he openly urged his party to break with the Social Democrats. He and other members of the heavy industrial wing managed to convince the majority of the group. With this, Hueck made a significant contribution to the end of the grand coalition ( Müller II cabinet ).

Between 1933 and 1945 Hueck was head of the Hamborn mining group of VESTAG. From 1938 to 1944 he was also chairman of the German committee for mine rescue. In addition, he was from 1935 to 1942 chairman of Section II of the mining trade association. For a time, Hueck was also chairman of the tariff commission of the German coal mining management and, from 1927 to 1937, judge at the Reich Labor Court in Leipzig .

In 1945 he temporarily headed the head office of VESTAG and then became deputy director. Hueck was involved in the reconstruction of the Ruhr mining industry in the post-war period. After VESTAG was broken up, he became chairman of Hamborner Bergbau AG and a member of the supervisory board of Friedrich Thyssen AG in 1953 . Politically, Hueck joined the CDU after the war .

He married Margarete Hedwig Klara Haack (1890–1949) in Dortmund in 1911 , a daughter of the businessman Richard Haack and Hedwig Schulte . The couple had three sons.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 128 , 501
  2. ^ Adolf Hueck I (FM) , in: Die Tübinger Rhenanen , 5th edition (2002), p. 117
  3. ^ Heinrich August Winkler: The appearance of normality. Workers and the labor movement in the Weimar Republic. Berlin and Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-8012-0094-9 , p. 807
personal data
SURNAME Hueck, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining manager and politician (DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Hettensen
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1955
Place of death Gelsenkirchen-Buer