Elisabeth Haub

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Amalie Luise Elisabeth Haub (born September 20, 1899 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † January 24, 1977 in Bonn ) was a German entrepreneur, philanthropist and environmentalist .

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Elisabeth was born in 1899 as the daughter of the entrepreneur Karl Schmitz-Scholl and his wife Elisabeth, b. Weynen was born into a Mülheim merchant family.

In 1932 she married Erich Haub from Wiesbaden. The marriage resulted in a son, Erivan Haub .

When her father died in 1933, she and her brother Karl Schmitz-Scholl jun. the company Schmitz-Scholl / Tengelmann in equal parts, her brother Karl became sole managing partner. Her son Erivan Haub took over the management of the group of companies after Karl Schmitz-Scholl's death in 1969 and headed it for three decades.

On the occasion of the hundredth birthday of her father in 1968, Elisabeth Haub founded the Karl Schmitz-Scholl-Fonds , a foundation for the promotion of legal regulations in environmental protection.

Her daughter-in-law Helga Haub established the Elizabeth Haub Foundations for Environmental Law and Policy in Washington, DC and Toronto . On the occasion of Erivan Haub's 75th birthday, the Elizabeth Haub Foundation was also established in Germany.

The International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles founded the Elizabeth Haub Prize for Environmental Law, which is awarded annually in 1973 . In 2008 Stockholm University took on this task . Since 1998, ICEL and Pace University have also awarded the Elizabeth Haub Prize for Environmental Diplomacy .

In 1975 she founded the Haub Zais Foundation for Monument Protection in Wiesbaden. The foundation is named after her late husband Erich Haub and his great-grandfather, the city architect of Wiesbaden Christian Zais .

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  • New Ruhr newspaper v. January 26, 1977
  • City Archives Mülheim an der Ruhr, 1550 No. 207 (Mülheim personalities)
  • 150 years of Tengelmann (published 2017)
  • Tengelmann in the Third Reich. Editor: Lutz Niethammer (to be published).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wiesbaden.de
personal data
SURNAME Haub, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haub, Elizabeth; Schmitz, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philanthropist and environmentalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1977
Place of death Bonn