Gustav Hartmann (entrepreneur)

Gustav Hartmann (born June 10, 1842 in Chemnitz , † October 20, 1910 in Schäftlarn ) was a German businessman , entrepreneur and industrial manager .

Life and work as a company

The son of the factory owner Richard Hartmann and his wife Bertha attended schools in Annaberg and Chemnitz before entering the civil and commercial school in Chemnitz . From 1859, on the advice of his father, he completed commercial training in a Hamburg iron import business.

In 1862, at the age of twenty, he represented his father's company at the London World's Fair , where the company received a great gold medal. From 1863 to 1865 Hartmann worked in a cotton import business and then worked for the locomotive construction company Beyer-Peacock .

From 1865 he was employed in his father's company in Chemnitz and became a partner in 1867. After the transformation into a stock corporation (as Sächsische Maschinenfabrik AG ), he was initially a member of the management board and in 1880 moved to the supervisory board. He was also a member of the board of directors and later of the supervisory board of Dresdner Bank , from 1884 to 1887 in Dresden , then until 1895 in Berlin .

On May 3, 1896, in Lugansk, Russia (now Luhansk , Ukraine), he founded the company Russische Maschinenbaugesellschaft Hartmann in Lugansk , today's Luhansk Locomotive Factory , which is considered the largest locomotive factory in Europe. After he had been named executor by Friedrich Alfred Krupp together with Ernst Theodor Haux , the shareholders of Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen elected him as chairman of the supervisory board in 1903. Through his brother-in-law, the painter Felix von Ende , who married his sister Elisabeth (1871–1942), he had family ties with Friedrich Alfred Krupp's wife Margarethe , née von Ende.

From 1881 Gustav Hartmann lived in his father's villa in Dresden- Laubegast , the so-called Villa Hartmann . Hartmann died during a stay in the Ebenhausen sanatorium , where he had his heart condition treated.

Private life

Hartmann was married to Christiane Emilia Elise Wachenhusen (1850-1882) since 1870. The daughters Margarete (born 1874) and Elisabeth (born 1880) emerged from the marriage. After his wife's death, Hartmann married her younger sister Marie Wachenhusen (1853–1911) in 1882.

Honors

Gustav Hartmann was awarded the honorary title of Privy Councilor of Commerce by the King of Saxony in 1903 . The Technical University of Dresden awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1909 (Dr.-Ing. E. h.). After Hartmann are named:

• the Hartmann place in Essen- Holsterhausen ,
• the Hartmannstrasse in Chemnitz and
• the Gustav-Hartmann-Straße in Dresden Laubegast .

literature

• 600 years of Laubegast 1408–2008. Publishing house “Die Fähre”, Dresden 2008.
• Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads. Who was what Bracht, Essen 1985, ISBN 3-87034-037-1 .
• Sybille Haubold:  Hartmann, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 735 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Cynthia Schönfeld: Gustav Hartmann (1842-1910). A new generation of entrepreneurs. Verlag Heimatland Sachsen, Chemnitz 2010, ISBN 978-3-910186-76-7 .
• Wolfgang Uhlmann: Gustav Hartmann died before 100 . in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 56 (2010) 4, pp. 354–357.

See also

• Luhansk locomotive factory