Eberhard Hoesch (industrialist, 1790)

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Eberhard Hoesch (1790-1852)

Eberhard Hoesch senior (born November 17, 1790 in Monschau ; † October 16, 1852 in Dortmund ) was a German industrialist from the Hoesch family .

Life

The son of the same name Eberhard Hoesch (1756–1811) and Sara Schleicher (1760–1814) took over the management of his father's iron together with his brothers Wilhelm (1791–1831) and Ludolf Matthias (1788–1859) after the early death of their father - and paper companies - the Zweifallshammer on the Kall, as well as another iron and steel works at Simonskall , an iron cutting mill in Schneidhausen and the Krauthausen paper mill .

They first founded the Hoesch brothers company , but split it up again in 1819. The older brother Ludolf Matthias received the paper factory, which was valued more highly, and built up a flourishing paper industry there. Eberhard and Wilhelm founded the company Gebrüder Eberhard and Wilhelm Hoesch and bought an ironworks in Lendersdorf near Düren that was not yet important at the time .

In 1823, Hoesch, accompanied by the experienced British engineer Samuel Dobbs, went to England and engaged in industrial espionage in order to explore the superior English puddling process for iron and steel extraction. After his return, Hoesch used the knowledge he gained to set up a puddling plant in the Lendersdorfer Hütte with recruited English specialists. The new process proved successful and led to a doubling of production as early as 1826.

In the years that followed, the company grew rapidly under Eberhard Hoesch's management and was constantly expanded, with a steam-powered rolling mill built as early as 1836 for the production of railroad tracks . 1827 10.000 were Zentner form of iron produced, in 1846 there were already 160,000 cwt. Between 1825 and 1855 the number of employees increased tenfold.

From 1845 his sons Gustav , Viktor and Eberhard Hoesch as well as his nephew and son of his brother Wilhelm, Leopold Hoesch , joined the father’s company as partners, which then changed its name to Eberhard Hoesch & Sons , Eisenhütte in Lendersdorf on October 1, 1846 .

In addition, Eberhard built a puddling and rolling mill with three blast furnaces , ten puddling furnaces and three melting furnaces for up to 600 workers under the company Hoesch & Söhne am Sticher Berg in Eschweiler .

Eberhard Hoesch was one of the advocates of railway construction in the Rhineland, from which his company benefited considerably, as the demand for iron and steel increased enormously and the improved transport options opened up larger markets.

After Eberhard Hoesch's death in 1852, Leopold Hoesch first took over the management of the plants, before he concentrated the company on Dortmund in 1871 and established Hoesch AG there. The hut in Lendersdorf was initially operated by his son Gustav until it was closed in the second half of the 20th century, whereas the sons Viktor and Eberhard together with their cousin Leopold and his sons Wilhelm (1845-1923) and Albert Hoesch (1847) –1898) were involved in the development of Hoesch AG. The factory premises at Sticher Berg were taken over by the steel construction company FA Neuman after the relocation of production to Dortmund .

family

Eberhard Hoesch was married to Johanna Dorothea Adelheid geb. Wuppermann (1789–1879), with whom he had next to the already mentioned sons Gustav, Viktor and Eberhard the daughter Henrietta Sibylla Maria (1823–1872), who married her cousin Leopold Hoesch, which was not uncommon at the time.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eisen- und Stahlwerk Hoesch Aktiengesellschaft in Dortmund 1871-1921. Dortmund 1921. (Festschrift)
personal data
SURNAME Hoesch, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Monschau
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1852
Place of death Dortmund