Gustave Loosé

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Peter August Loosé (also: Gustave or Gust for short ; * September 28, 1865 ; † May 9, 1930 ), was a Luxembourg politician in Steinfort and blast furnace engineer in the Steinfort ironworks .

Life and family

Gustave Loosé was the legitimate son of August Heinrich Engelhard Loosé (* 1831, Goslar ), brewer in Luxembourg, and Susanna Loosé, née Ditsch (* 1831). Gustave Loosé was the second of four children of the Loosé couple.

He married Anne Kaempf on December 11, 1894 in Luxembourg. The couple had two children, Marguerite (* 1895) and Bernard (* 1897), who were both born in the Steinforter Hüttenwerk, where the family lived.

Gustave Loosé was buried on May 12, 1930 in the Liebfrauenfriedhof in Luxembourg City, next to his son-in-law, the writer Mathias Esch (1882 - November 14, 1928). He experienced the decline of the Steinforter Hütte, but not the shutdown of the last blast furnace (III) in April 1931, after which the ironworks was finally abandoned.

Education

Gustave Loosé attended secondary school in Luxembourg City and studied at the Polytechnic in Aachen from 1884 (today: RWTH Aachen University ). He completed his studies on February 26, 1889 with good success as a metallurgical engineer.

activity

He gained his first professional experience in the works in Audun-le-Tiche ( France ) and on June 1, 1890 he became head of production at the Steinforter works in Luxembourg ( Directeur-gérant de la Société anonyme des Hauts-Fourneaux et Aciéries de Steinfort ) . In December 1919, when Felten & Guilleaume finally sold the smelter and transferred it to the Société des Mines de la Loire , Loosé became general manager of the smelter.

Political activity

1896 Loose member was of the municipal council of Steinfort and was this continuously as a council, alderman or mayor until 31 December 1924. From 1913 to 1918 he held the office of mayor of the municipality. After serving on the Steinfort municipal council, he became a member of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce .

Memberships

Gustave Loosé was a member and honorary president of the Amicale des Anciens Élèves de l'Ècole Polytechnique d'Aix-la-Chapelle and a member of the Alliance française (Steinfort section) and the Fédération des Industriels as well as the Luxembourg engineering association.

Honors

On December 17, 1925, Gustave Loosé was appointed Officier de L'Ordre de Léopold (Officer of the Order of Leopold) (see: Order of Leopold (Belgium) ) because he gave Belgian border residents as much as possible a job in the Steinforter hut during the First World War and thus prevented deportations by the German occupation forces in Belgium .

literature

  • Erny Drouet: "Schmelz" Steinfort , The Collart Family , Steinfort 2013, Center d'initiative et de gestion local Steinfort, ISBN 978-99959-0-007-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erny Drouet: "Schmelz" Steinfort , p. 140.
  2. ↑ a b Erny Drouet: "Schmelz" Steinfort , p. 121.
  3. ↑ Married to the writer Mathias Esch from Luxembourg (1882–14 November 1928), see: Erny Drouet: “Schmelz” Steinfort , p. 125.
  4. ↑ Erny Drouet: “Schmelz” Steinfort , p. 123.
  5. ↑ Erny Drouet: "Schmelz" Steinfort , p. 127.
  6. ↑ Erny Drouet: “Schmelz” Steinfort , pp. 122, 124.
  7. ^ Roger Seimetz: Community center "Al Schmelz" , memotransfront.uni-saarland.de.
  8. ↑ Erny Drouet: “Schmelz” Steinfort , p. 123.
  9. ↑ Erny Drouet: “Schmelz” Steinfort , p. 123 f.
  10. ↑ Erny Drouet: “Schmelz” Steinfort , p. 124 f.
personal data
SURNAME Loosé, Gustave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loosé, Peter August; Loosé, Gust
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg engineer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg City
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1930