Eberhard Hoesch (industrialist, 1827)

Eberhard Hoesch, Düren - Dortmund

Eberhard Hoesch (born February 15, 1827 in Düren ; † November 7, 1907 there ) was a German industrialist, iron manufacturer and patron of the city of Düren.

Life

Lendersdorf foundry hall

Eberhard Hoesch was the son of the iron manufacturer Eberhard Hoesch (1790-1852) and Johanna Dorothea Adelheid Wuppermann (1789-1879).

His father bought the Lendersdorfer Hütte ironworks in 1819 and founded the Eberhard Hoesch & Söhne company in 1846 , which also included the ironworks in Eschweiler and Zweifallshammer . Eberhard junior was a partner in this company together with his brothers. In 1824 Eberhard junior introduced the puddling process at the Lendersdorfer Hütte - a few months after the first use of the process at the Rasselsteiner Hütte (near Neuwied). The Lendersdorfer Hütte manufactured the continent's first railroad tracks .

Eberhard's cousin, Leopold Hoesch , the son of his uncle William Hoesch (1791-1831), founded on September 1, 1871 in Dortmund with the acquisition of Westfalenhütte the iron and steel plant Hoesch as a general partnership with a capital of 2.4 million marks. Half a year after the Vienna stock market crash, in the middle of the crisis of 1873, the plant was converted into Hoesch AG . Eberhard jun, his brother Viktor Hoesch (1824–1888) and the sons of Leopold, Wilhelm (1845–1923) and Albert Hoesch (1847–1898) were also involved in founding the company. In contrast, Eberhard's third brother, Gustav Hoesch, stayed in Lendersdorf and managed the works there. Later, the term " Karl Hoesch " was created here among the so-called Hoeschians , a lovingly meant declaration of respect that literally stands for everything that has to do with the steel company Hoesch AG.

City Theater Düren (1918)

Eberhard was married (1862) to Agnes Pfeifer (1839–1903) - a granddaughter of the sugar industrialist ( Pfeifer & Langen ) Emil Pfeifer . In 1862 their son Carl Robert was born, but he died just 12 days later.

Eberhard Hoesch jun. was a great benefactor of his hometown. In addition to many other foundations , he donated 500,000 marks to the city for the construction of the city ​​theater . In his will he made foundations of 2,852,400 marks, of which 1,515,000 marks for the city of Düren.

Eberhard-Hoesch-Strasse was named after Eberhard Hoesch on September 9, 1914 . It was part of the Way of the Cross to the Mother of God House . Agnesstraße branches off from this street , named after his wife, who was the chairwoman of the Düren women's association and who donated generous sums for the construction of a game and ballroom and for the construction of workers' apartments.

literature

• Justus Hashagen / Fritz Brüggemann : History of the Hoesch Family , Volume 2: From the Age of Religious Unrest to the Present , Cologne 1916
• Horst Mönnich: Departure for the area. Departure to Europe. Hoesch 1871–1971 . Munich: Verlag F. Bruckmann, 1971, ISBN 3-7654-1441-7 (anniversary volume of Hoesch Aktiengesellschaft, Dortmund)
• Heinrich Philip Bartels: Chronicle of the Pfeifer family , around 1975 (only published in the family circle)