Carl Lueg

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Carl Lueg

Carl Lueg (born December 2, 1833 in Sterkrade , † May 5, 1905 in Düsseldorf ) was a German industrial manager and the first chairman of the Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) board from 1873 to 1904 .

Life

The son of the hut director Wilhelm Lueg attended grammar school in Wesel , secondary school in Duisburg and trade school in Hagen . He then studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and joined the Hüttengewerkschaft und Handlung Jacobi, Haniel & Huyssen (JHH) as a young engineer in 1855 , which later became the Gutehoffnungshütte group. In 1858 he became chief engineer at the blast furnace facility in Oberhausen and also managed the ironworks there .

After the death of his father in 1864 he took over the post of JHH general director , in 1873 became the first chairman of the board of the newly founded corporation Gutehoffnungshütte and headed the company for another 30 years. Under his leadership, the GHH developed into a large company: Between 1873 and 1905, sales rose from 20.6 to 57.1 million marks, and the number of employees from 8,500 to 19,300. Pig iron production, which had amounted to 18,000 tons in 1858, reached 432,000 tons in 1905.

In 1862, Carl Lueg married Mathilde (1842–1929), daughter of the publisher Peter August Bagel (1809–1881) from the Bagel family .

Like his father, Carl Lueg was particularly committed to corporate social policy, including the establishment of pension and benefit funds for the workers and employees of the GHH, but also through the construction of company apartments, including the Eisenheim II and Stemmersberg settlements .

In terms of industrial policy, Lueg was a co-founder of the Association of German Engineers and the Association of German Ironworkers . Carl Lueg's brother was the Düsseldorf industrialist and city councilor Heinrich Lueg .

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f Bodo Herzog:  Lueg, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 462 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Johannes Bähr, Ralf Banken, Thomas Flemming: The MAN: A German Industrial History , CH Beck, Munich, 2008, p. 509, footnote 14.
personal data
SURNAME Lueg, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lueg, Carl Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, CEO of Gutehoffnungshütte
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Sterkrade , Germany
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1905
Place of death Dusseldorf , Germany