Alwin Bauer

Emil Alwin Bauer (born April 30, 1856 in Wildenfels , † February 2, 1928 in Aue ) was a German entrepreneur, secret councilor and national liberal politician . From 1907 to 1918 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament .

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Grave of Alwin Bauer in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden

Alwin Bauer was born the son of a miller . After attending school, Bauer learned the trade of a weaver and trained as a businessman. In January 1882, together with Samuel Wolle from Berlin , he founded a cotton weaving mill as an OHG in the small town of Aue in the Ore Mountains . It was called S. Wool weaving mill . Alwin Bauer worked as an authorized signatory in his factory .

Between 1893 and 1897, the two owners expanded the weaving mill to include a newly built electric bleaching plant , a dyeing and finishing plant . In addition, the approximately 24,000 m² factory site received a siding . In 1898 Bauer und Wolle acquired another weaving mill in Eibau , with which they carried out heavy trade in England, France, Austria, Romania, Turkey, Egypt, the USA, South America and Australia. Retail branches were established in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Munich and Vienna. In 1909 the weaving mill employed 600 people.

In order to improve the training of its own skilled workers and the situation in the city, Alwin Bauer donated a piece of land to the city of Aue around 1905, on which the municipality could build a technical weaving school, which was inaugurated in 1907. In addition, Alwin Bauer had a factory kitchen and dining room built on the factory premises, which were opened in 1910. Alwin Bauer handed over management of the factory to his son Curt Bauer as early as 1915 .

In 1920 the company was converted into a GmbH and was now the limited partnership S. Wolle GmbH . Another branch opened in Chemnitz in 1922 . In the same year the wool weaving mill had 1200 workers and employees; Modern equipment such as two preparation machines, 100 looms and 140 finishing machines were also in use.

Since 1926 the weaving mill has been in the sole ownership of the Bauer family; Wool had retired because he was of Jewish descent. After Alwin Bauer died in February 1928, he was posthumously awarded the titles of Kommerzienrat and Privy Kommerzienrat for his achievements . Bauer was buried in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden. His grave slab is adorned with a relief of the Mohrenhaus.

Curt Bauer was now the sole owner and renamed the factory Curt Bauer weaving mill .

After many workers were laid off because of the global economic crisis in the 1920s, the economy picked up again in the 1930s. In 1939, 700 people were already working in the weaving mill.

During the Nazi era , Curt Bauer was subjected to a number of reprisals by the new rulers, and he was finally arrested in 1943. On August 30, 1944, he committed suicide . Committed employees from the management level continued to run the company until the end of the Second World War .

After the war, expropriation followed and the weaving mill became public property ; it produced and exported its products under the name Damastweberei Aue . After the German reunification , the descendants of the Bauer family got their business back . In honor of Curt Bauer, it again carries the company name Weberei Curt Bauer .

Social and political engagement, property

From 1905 until his death, Alwin Bauer was a member of the board of the Association of Saxon Industrialists and in 1908 the founder of the Auer local group, which he also chaired until 1917. In addition, he was deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the Chemnitzer Bankverein . He was a city councilor in his hometown and from 1907 to 1918, as a representative of the 20th urban constituency, a member of the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament .

From 1910 he owned the Mohrenhaus in Niederlößnitz near Dresden , where he took up residence from 1913 after extensive construction work. From 1917 onwards, Bauer owned Weesenstein Castle , which he had acquired from the Saxon royal family for 1.9 million marks.

literature

• Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 . Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 2001, p. 90.
• Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 334.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Message from the press department of the Aue town hall, May 2002.