Ewald Hilger
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 ).
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Ewald Hilger was buried in the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor and, after its closure in 1955, reburied in the Ostfriedhof Essen .
Awards
- 1891: Landwehr service award, 2nd class
- 1897: Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Medal
- 1899: 1st class military service award
- 1900: Honorary member of the Corps Palatia Strasbourg
- 1900: Red Eagle Order 4th class
- 1900: Secret mountain ridge
- 1902: Officer's Cross of the Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig
- 1902: Order of the Double Dragon, Third Degree, 1st Class
- 1903: Red Eagle Order 3rd class with the ribbon
- 1907: Order of St. Anne, 2nd class
- 1907: Iron Cross 2nd class
- 1918: Honorary citizen of Laurahütte
- 1918: Wound badge in black
- 1918: Cross of Merit for War Aid
- 1920: Dr.-Ing.hc from the Technical University of Wroclaw
- 1920: Honorary citizen of the Technical University in Berlin
- 1921: Silesian probation badge 2nd and 1st level
- 1929: Honorary Senator of the Bergakademie Freiberg
- 1931: Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Berlin
literature
- Saarabien in court - report on the Hilger versus Krämer trial using shorthand records , Vorwärts Berlin 1904.
- Hilger, Ewald , in: Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft , Vol. 1: A – K. Berlin 1930. DNB 453960286 , pp. 756-757.
- Walter Serlo: The Prussian Mountain Assessors , 4th edition Essen 1933, p. 90.
- Friedrich August Pinkerneil : Ewald Hilger † , obituary in Glückauf - Berg- und Hüttenmännische Zeitschrift dated September 1, 1934, vol. 70 (1934), issue 35, p. 797 f.
- Walter Serlo: Men of the mining industry , Berlin 1937.
- Dietrich Lohse: A very difficult letter . In: Radebeuler Monatshefte eV (Ed.): Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area . February 2016, p. 8–10 ( online - with pictures by Hilger and the cast-iron letter).
- Ingrid Quabeck: Hilger, Ewald. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 143 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Ewald Hilger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Ewald Hilger in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Ewald Hilger in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic
- Ewald Hilger in the Hamburg World Economic Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corp lists 1960, 33/23
- ↑ Martin Frehsee, Palatia-Straßburg, Hanover undated, pp. 130-133
- ^ Literature from the world of work and workers' literature on the Saar (from 1850 to the present); Annotated bibliography and typology: I. Introduction
- ^ 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 .
- ^ Siemens Corporate Archives Munich, Nachlass Carl Friedrich von Siemens, 4th Lf 590, Vol. 2
personal data | |
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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 |