Charles Léon hardship

Charles Léon Adversity, 1911

Charles Léon Ungemach (born September 19, 1844 in Strasbourg ; † January 7, 1928 there ) was an Alsatian industrialist and member of the state parliament.

Life

Charles Léon Ungemach, who was a Catholic denomination, attended the Collège Saint-Arbogast and the Lycée impériale in Strasbourg. He married Marie Élisabeth Himly (1856-1935). His daughter Suzanne Élisabeth (1880-1974) married the entrepreneur and later local politician Maurice Fernand Herrenschmidt . Another daughter, Jeanne, married Robert Hoepffner, who later became President of the Protestant Church, in 1913 . His son Henri Léon Ungemach (1879-1936) became an engineer.

He was director of the Ungemach AS Alsatian canning factory ( Société Alsacienne d'Alimentation ) in Strasbourg. The company that grew out of his father's grocery store was a major employer in Strasbourg. In 1923 he built the Cité Jardin Ungemach in Strasbourg as a workers' housing estate for his workers .

He had been a member of the Strasbourg Chamber of Commerce since 1879 and vice-president there since 1911. After being president of the city's commodity exchange for many years, he became its honorary president.

Since 1904 he was politically active as a councilor in Strasbourg. In 1911 he was elected as a representative of the Strasbourg Chamber of Commerce to the first chamber of the Landtag , of which he was a member from 1911 to 1918.

Garden city ( Cité-jardin ) Difficulty

Stele in the Cité-jardin Ungemach

Charles Léon Ungemach was a pioneer in corporate social policy. Company restaurants, a hospital and a library were created for its employees, and summer camps were offered for the employees' children. Around 1900 he introduced profit sharing for employees.

After the First World War , he created a foundation that was to implement a garden city. Gardens and workers' houses were laid out on an area of ​​12 hectares. A stele in the annex quotes a sentence from the deed of donation of January 7, 1920:

“The Fondation des jardins Ungemach est destinée à de jeunes ménages en bonne santé, désireux d'avoir des enfants et de les élever dans de bonnes conditions d'hygiène et de moralité. Léon Ungemach
German: The aim of the Ungemach Gardens Foundation is to ensure that young families grow up healthy here, to create the desire for children and to raise the level of hygienic conditions and morale. Léon adversity "

- Stele in the gardens

The workers' houses in Cité-jardin Ungemach were designed by the architect Sorg. In 1950, according to the statutes of the foundation, the plant was given to the city of Strasbourg.

Honors

The Rue Léon Ungemach in Schiltigheim is named after him.

literature

• Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine 1911–1916. Biographical-statistical manual. Mulhouse 1911, p. 130
• Denis Leypold: Entry UNGEMACH Charles Léon in: Christian Baechler: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, Volume 37, p. 3953 (French)
• Georges Foessel: entry Herrenschmidt, Maurice Fernand and Christian Wolff: entry Hoepffner, Robert ; in: Jean Marie Mayeur (ed.): Dictionnaire du monde religieux dans la France contemporaine: L'Alsace, 1987, ISBN 978-2-7010-1141-7 , pages 200 and 208, online
• Stéphane Jonas, "Les jardins d'Ungemach à Strasbourg: une cité-jardin d'origine nataliste (1823-1950)" in Paulette Girard et Bruno Fayolle Lussac (eds.), Cités, cités-jardins, une histoire européenne (actes du colloque de Toulouse des 18 et 19 novembre 1993, organisé par le Groupe de recherches Production de la ville et patrimoine des Écoles d'architecture de Toulouse et Bordeaux), Éd. de la Maison des sciences de l'homme d'Aquitaine, Talence, 1996, ISBN 2-85892-215-2 , pp. 65 ff.
• Bernard Vogler , Elizabeth Loeb-Darcagne et Christophe Hamm (phot.), “Un Éden urbain”, in Strasbourg secret , Les Beaux Jours, Paris, 2008, p. 138

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Susanne Tschirner: DuMont direkt Straßburg, 2011 ISBN 978-3-7701-9604-3 , page 70, online