Eduard Hager

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Eduard Hager (born February 17, 1848 in Lennep ; † November 24, 1901 in Hamburg ) was a German manufacturer and entrepreneur .

Life

Ella Hager, painting by Johannes Deiker (1894)
Obituary notices in the Hamburg press from November 1901

Eduard Hager was the son of the spinning mill owner Carl Anton Hager (1803–1878) and Johanna Luise Kühner (1807–1880) from Lennep. Hager married Julie Wenker, then 19, on December 24, 1873. She came from the old Dortmund brewery family Wenker , her father was Franz Heinrich Wenker (1825–1905), the leading brewery founder.

In 1875 the first daughter, Ella Hager, was born in Mönchengladbach. The couple Eduard and Julie Hager subsequently moved to Hamburg. Eduard Hager was a member of the "Association of Wholesalers in Manufactured Goods and Related Industries" in Hamburg. On December 6, 1881, the second daughter was born in Hamburg, Margaret Julie Luise Hager (called Grete), and in 1884 the third daughter, Magdalene Hager.

The private villa of the married couple Eduard and Julie Hager was built on Rothenbaumchaussee in 1889. The friends of the family commissioned a stained glass window from the glass painter H. de Bruycher, which was decorated with all sorts of wisdom, such as:

  • Hermann Bötterling: "There must be such owls too"
  • Heinrich Wenker: "Learn, hear, be silent!"
  • Carl Hager: “Advertise! Happiness is brittle! "
  • August Schmidt: "Werck has done it freshly!"
  • Franz Müller: " Work ennobles !"
  • Ewald Petersen: "Gradual, happy"
  • " Sursum Corda " (German: "Raise your hearts")
  • Theodor Necker: "Life is striving"
  • Robert Schmitz: "Friendship, love, truth"
  • Jean Pierre Grevenig: "God's blessing everywhere"
  • A. Rauterkus: "Open and straight ahead"
  • Julius Meyer: "German sense in a German home"
  • August Dietrich: "Festival always in joy and sorrow"
  • ARC Hausenfelder: "Smart in advice, strong in action"
  • "Favete linguis Amici" (German: "Guard your tongue, friends"), Horace

family

Julie Hager died on November 30, 1890 at the age of 36 in Hamburg. She found her final resting place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery . The three daughters were then 15, 8 and 6 years old. Eduard Hager, who was interested in art, bought the painting Junge Füchse am Bau ( young foxes on the building) (destroyed by fire in 1996) from the Düsseldorf animal painter Johannes Deiker and had him portray his deceased wife in 1893 - probably based on a photograph. In 1894 Eduard Hager had his daughters Ella (then 19 years old) and Margaret (then 13 years old) painted in oil by Deiker; The paintings were framed by Arthur Puffhahn, Meineckestr. 10, Charlottenburg (Berlin). On February 17, 1898, the eldest daughter Ella Hager married Fritz Evertsbusch. The marriage remained childless.

On November 4, 1901, Eduard Hager suffered a heart attack in Berlin, from which he died at the age of 53. His body was transferred from Berlin to Hamburg on November 27, 1901. He was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

The daughter Margaret (Grete) Hager married Otto Linde on October 20, 1902 and from then on lived in Baden-Baden . The children Horst Linde and Wilfried Linde emerged from the marriage. Magdalene Hager died in Berlin in 1903 at the age of 18.

Company "Müller & Hager"

Burstahhof, Hamburg (2011)

From 1870, Eduard Hager and his business partner Franz Müller built several textile factories in Mönchengladbach and Rheindahlen . In Hamburg, production and export were carried out for overseas countries; in Berlin, finer children's wardrobes were produced and sold. The company operated as "Müller & Hager" with headquarters in Hamburg, Berlin, Mönchengladbach and Rheindahlen. Affiliated were shops in Berlin, Stettin, Dortmund and others

In 1887/1888 the first office building , the “Burstahhof” , was built in Hamburg-Mitte . Architects were Ricardo Bahre & Carl Querfeld. The "Burstahhof" is the oldest preserved office building in the Hanseatic city. The company Müller & Hager took its seat in Hamburg there. In Berlin the Buckskin Confection was operated on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse.

The clothing factories "Müller & Hager" merged with Herbert Tengelmann's group after the Second World War .

Web links

Commons : Eduard Hager  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Karl: Rouette, textile barons: Industrial Revolution in the Mönchengladbach textile and clothing industry. 1996, pp. 258, 289.
personal data
SURNAME Hager, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Lennep
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1901
Place of death Hamburg