Ewald Hilger

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Ewald Hilger (born June 13, 1859 in Essen , † August 20, 1934 in Kötzschenbroda , today Radebeul ) was a German mine director and chairman of the mining group in the Reich Association of German Industry . In 1919 he was a member of the German delegation to the Treaty of Versailles .

Life

Ewald Hilger came from a family of industrialists. His father Ewald Hilger (1833–1887) was a mining, steel and brewery entrepreneur and a tradesman in the Ewald trade union named after him . Hilger received his school education in Essen and Duisburg . After graduating from high school, he first studied at the University of Lausanne and the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . In 1879 he was reciprocated in the Corps Palatia-Straßburg . As an inactive , he moved to the Technical University of Charlottenburg and the University of Monsthe mountain subject, took the mountain trainee exam on December 30, 1882 and passed the assessor exam on June 28, 1887. His first positions took him as a mining inspector to Sulzbach and Friedrichsthal . From April 1892 to November 1893, Hilger was the editor of the weekly newspaper for entertainment and instruction for miners, Der Bergmannsfreund, published by the Saarbrücken mining directorate . After a libel suit, the contentious opponent of social democratic ideas had to hand over the editorial staff of the paper. This was followed by a transfer as head of the mining inspection at Grube Gerhard in Luisenthal .

In 1896 Bergrat was appointed chairman of the central administration in Zabrze , so that the management of the state mining companies of Upper Silesia was transferred. A year later he was promoted to the Oberbergrat. On October 1, 1900, Hilger was appointed head of the Saarbrücken Mining Directorate with the title of Secret Mountain Ridge . While he was working as a mining inspector, Hilger had already campaigned for the health and safety of the miners, whereby he was strictly patriotic and prevented social democratic activities. During his tenure, Hilger was able to provide the Saarland coal mining industry with further positive impulses. Sales rose, the workforce could be enlarged and the standard of living of the miners could be improved through wage increases. This enabled Hilger to keep the influence of social democracy on the Saarland miners low; the reputation of a “Saar-Bismarck” preceded him.

Hilger fought stubbornly but unsuccessfully against the attempt to found a miners' association , made again in 1904 . After he had been sued by the miner Karl Krämer, who had been dismissed for attending a meeting, and lost the trial, he was offered the office of General Director of the United King and Laurahütte in Laurahütte in 1905 . Hilger followed the offer and moved again to the Upper Silesian mountain area. Until 1922 he headed the largest mining and metallurgical company in Upper Silesia and retired after the transfer of Siemianowitz from East Upper Silesia to Poland . Hilger acquired the Kynast winery in Zitzschewig , today a district of Radebeul , where he lived until his death and which is still or again inhabited by family members today.

Ewald Hilger was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council as well as several professional associations and supervisory boards. He was one of the founders of the Society of Friends of the Technical University Berlin-Charlottenburg , chairman of the Knappschafts-Berufsgenossenschaft , and he headed the mining department in the Reich Association of German Industry . From 1919 to 1933 he was a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

Hilger was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Uhlan Regiment No. 15 . During the First World War, Hilger was in command of the corps headquarters of the XXI. Army Corps ( Fritz von Below ).

Tomb at the Ostfriedhof Essen

Ewald Hilger was buried in the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor and, after its closure in 1955, reburied in the Ostfriedhof Essen .

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  1. ↑ Kösener Corp lists 1960, 33/23
  2. ↑ Martin Frehsee, Palatia-Straßburg, Hanover undated, pp. 130-133
  3. ^ Literature from the world of work and workers' literature on the Saar (from 1850 to the present); Annotated bibliography and typology: I. Introduction
  4. ^ Matthias Donath, Jörg Blobelt (photos): Sächsisches Weinland . Historic wineries and vineyard houses in the Elbe Valley. 1st edition. Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft Elbland, Dresden 2010, p. 104-107 .
  5. ^ Siemens Corporate Archives Munich, Nachlass Carl Friedrich von Siemens, 4th Lf 590, Vol. 2
personal data
SURNAME Hilger, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mine director
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1934
Place of death Kötzschenbroda , now part of Radebeul