Ernst Henke (industrialist)

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Ernst Henke (born September 1, 1881 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † February 20, 1974 in Essen ) was a German lawyer and manager in the electricity industry .

Life

Henke, the son of a grammar school director, attended grammar schools in Barmen and Bremen , studied law and, after taking the assessor examination in 1909, became legal advisor to Hugo Stinnes . From 1912 to 1945 he was director and legal director of Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke AG (RWE) , in which Stinnes was the main shareholder at the time.

He also acted as a member of the supervisory board of RWE until 1962, Elektrizitäts-AG formerly W. Lahmeyer & Co. , Main-Kraftwerke AG, Roddergrube AG and Westdeutsche Elektrizitätswirtschafts-AG . He was a member of the board of directors of the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie , chairman of the specialist group for electrical, gas and waterworks in Germany and board member of the Association of Electricity Companies and a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council .

On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP in Essen with the entire RWE board .

Art lover and collector

As an art lover, Henke was chairman of the Folkwang Museum Association from 1925 to 1926 and again from 1959 to 1969 . Henke owned a valuable art collection, which he built up especially in the 1930s and 1940s. Among them were Caspar David Friedrich's The Wanderer above the Sea of ​​Fog and Sunset behind the Dresden Court Church and paintings by Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . Dieter Spethmann called him a great friend of art and antiquity . From 1945 to 1970 Henke was chairman of the board of the Kunstring Folkwang eV association in Essen. In 1964 he founded the Folkwang Foundation Ernst and Elly Henke .

He also maintained professional and social contacts as a member of the Düsseldorf Industry Club .

According to a design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Ernst Henke had an extension built on his house in Essen in 1930.

literature

  • Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 913.

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  1. ↑ A commitment to the contemporary. Art sponsorship. The cooperation between RWE and the Folkwang Museum sets new standards. From welt.de on May 19, 2001 , accessed on February 13, 2016
  2. ↑ Helmut Maier : "National economic model boy" without fortune. Developments in energy policy and RWE in the “Third Reich”. In: Helmut Maier (Hrsg.): Electricity economy between environment, technology and politics. Aspects from 100 years of RWE history 1898–1998. Freiberg 1999, p. 132.
  3. ↑ Lot 17: Caspar David Friedrich, 1774-1840 19th Century Paintings, including German, Austrian and Central European Paintings, and The Scandinavian Sale by Sotheby's June 13, 2011, accessed on February 21, 2015
  4. ↑ Ketterer: Auction: 330 / Modern Art / Kunst nach 45 / Sideways on December 5, 2007 in Munich Lot 112, Emil Nolde, Blühende Kakteen, 1930.
  5. ^ Emil Nolde, Javanese statuette and two flowers, around 1930/40 on service.kunstversteigerer.de, accessed on March 4, 2015
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nazi-looted-art.de
  7. ↑ Ralph Trost: A city completely destroyed, Volume 1, page 218
  8. ^ Kunstring Folkwang Chronik, accessed on February 21, 2014
  9. ↑ List of foundations for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on February 21, 2015
  10. ^ List of members of the Industrie-Club Düsseldorf 1932
  11. ^ Norbert Hanenberg and Daniel Lohmann: Building research in the Essen house Henke by Mies van der Rohe. In: New building! Modern architecture of the Weimar Republic in the Rhineland. Announcements from the LVR office for the preservation of monuments in the Rhineland, issue 35. Brauweiler / Cologne 2019. S.65-70; see. PM krefeld.de from August 26, 2013 More bad : Painters Emil Nolde and Ludwig van der Rohe , accessed on February 21, 2015 ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 194.77.238.99
personal data
SURNAME Henke, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and manager in the electricity industry
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1974
Place of death eat