Ernst Haage

Ernst Haage (born October 27, 1901 in Duisburg , † August 23, 1968 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German precision mechanic and company founder.

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Ernst Haage's professional career began in 1916 with an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr, today's Max Planck Institute for Coal Research . In 1925 Ernst Haage took over the management of the precision mechanics workshops and the technical facilities at the institute and in 1932 - 13 years after his master craftsman examination - founded his own company, "Ernst Haage Apparatebau und Laboreinrichtungen".

The focus of the company was on the construction of apparatus for research and science. The employees developed and built test equipment for laboratories in Germany and abroad, equipment for gasoline synthesis for the petroleum industry and special equipment for the chemical and paper industries. At the end of the 1960s, the workforce of the medium-sized family company comprised around 70 employees. After the company's founder passed away in 1968, his son-in-law Alfred Hesselmann and later his grandson Thomas Hesselmann took over management of the company. Due to domestic and foreign competition, the company got into crisis, had to file for bankruptcy in 2002 and cease operations in 2005.

For his commitment to science and research, Ernst Haage had already received the badge of merit of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science in 1936 , which Max Planck gave him personally. Another honor was the Cross of Merit on Ribbon, which was awarded to him in 1968 by the Federal Republic of Germany in the person of Federal President Heinrich Lübke .

In addition to his professional activity, Ernst Haage volunteered in various specialist committees and organizations. He acted as a board member in the employers' association of Metall-Industrie Ruhr-Niederrhein eV, was a member of the representative assembly of the general local health insurance fund and a committee of the Oberhausen employment office, was involved in youth work in sport and was an assessor at the Duisburg social court .

In 2006, a private donation from the family set up the Ernst Haage Foundation for the promotion of young scientists, which awards the Ernst Haage Prize every year to research work by young scientists .

Honors

• Badge of Merit of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science (1936)
• Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1968)

literature

• Fritz Heckmann: Ernst Haage - apparatus engineering and laboratory equipment . In: Mülheimer Verkehrsverein (Ed.): Mülheim an der Ruhr - Yearbook 2013. Thierbach, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2012, pp. 230-233.
• Fritz Heckmann: From the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute to an own company for apparatus engineering and laboratory equipment: Ernst Haage . In: Horst A. Wessel (Ed.): Mülheim entrepreneurs and pioneers in the 19th and 20th centuries. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2012, pp. 169–172.

Other sources

• Ruhr news v. October 27, 1961
• City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1440