Gustav Hoesch

Gustav Hoesch (born July 16, 1818 in Düren , † February 19, 1885 there ) was a German coal and steel entrepreneur .

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The eldest son of Eberhard Hoesch (1790-1852) and Johanna Dorothea Adelheid Hoesch born. Wuppermann (1789–1879) initially worked as a volunteer in Amsterdam in 1840 and joined his father's company on January 1, 1845. Around 1824 he and British specialists took over an ironworks in Düren- Lendersdorf, which was still insignificant at the time, and was able to expand it considerably by introducing the puddling process for iron and steel production. Gustav Hoesch, together with his brothers Viktor and Eberhard Hoesch, also became a partner in this company, which was then renamed Eberhard Hoesch & Sons .

This hut became the nucleus of what would later become Hoesch AG in Dortmund, after Gustav's cousin Leopold Hoesch (1820–1899) decided in 1871 to relocate and concentrate the individual family businesses in Dortmund for better transport and resource connections . The still profitable Lendersdorf plant initially remained in operation for local needs, and Gustav Hoesch was director of this plant until his death, whereas his brothers Viktor and Eberhard as well as Leopold's sons Wilhelm (1845–1923) and Albert Hoesch (1847–1898) ) as further founding members of Hoesch AG, helped move to Dortmund. The Lendersdorfer Hütte was not finally closed until the later 20th century.

In addition, Gustav and his brothers were again partners in the company Hoesch & Söhne am Sticher Berg in Eschweiler , a puddling and rolling mill also built by his father in 1846 with three blast furnaces, ten puddling furnaces and three melting furnaces. The factory site at Sticher Berg was taken over by the steel construction company FA Neuman after the company was relocated to Dortmund and is still in existence today.

Gustav Hoesch was married to Maria (Agnes Julie) Hoesch born in 1857 . Pfeifer (1834–1920), daughter of the Cologne sugar manufacturer Emil Pfeifer (in the Pfeifer & Langen company ) and his wife (Maria) Emma Pfeifer, born. Hoesch , daughter of the Düren paper manufacturer Ludolf Matthias Hoesch and Juliane Hoesch born. Sneak. This marriage resulted in three children: Eberhard Emil (1858), Georg Gustav Emil (given name) (1859) and Lucie Agnes Aline Valentine (1864–1944).

Like all members of the Hoesch entrepreneurial family, Hoesch was very socially minded. On February 19, 1885 he bequeathed 30,000  marks to the voluntary poor association for the construction of a dining hall and the city of Düren 20,000 marks for the hospital and the same amount again for the construction of a house of the dead .

A memorial plaque on the house at Robert-Koch-Strasse 8 in Düren, built in 1953, indicates the founder and benefactor.

See also

• Plaques and monuments on houses in Düren

literature

• Justus Hashagen , Fritz Brüggemann : History of the Hoesch family. Volume 2: From the Age of Religious Unrest to the Present. Cologne 1916.
• Heinrich Philip Bartels: Chronicle of the Pfeifer family. unpublished, around 1975 (only used in family circles)