Hanns Jencke

Hanns Jencke (born April 6, 1843 in Dresden ; † March 8, 1910 there ) was a German manager and industrial interest representative. After he was a high-ranking official of the Saxon state railway , he became chairman of the board of directors of the Krupp company and chairman of the Central Association of German Industrialists .

Life

Hanns Jencke was the son of Johann Friedrich Jencke (1812-1893) the founder and director of the institution for the deaf and dumb in Dresden. The mother was Marie, née Loewe (1817–1882).

Jencke studied law and political science in Leipzig and Heidelberg . In Leipzig he joined the Leipzig fraternity of Dresdensia on January 13, 1862 . After that he worked as a lawyer. From 1869 he was employed in the general management of the Saxon State Railway. In 1873 he was appointed finance councilor and head of the transport department. After participating in the negotiations on the Reich Railway Act, Jencke resigned from the Saxon civil service in 1878.

Instead, he was appointed chairman of the procuration by Alfred Krupp in his company. From 1888 he was chairman of the company's board of directors. From that time on he was effectively the head of the entire company. During his tenure, he acquired a number of other companies, including the Germania shipyard in Kiel .

Jencke was a member of the Prussian State Council . In its negotiations, he clearly represented the claim to the authority of the entrepreneur vis-à-vis the workers, for example in the debate on occupational health and safety legislation in 1890. He rejected workers' committees. Although his statements were directed against Wilhelm II at this point , he was evidently so impressed by Jencke's expertise and person that he offered him the office of Prussian Prime Minister in vain.

Jencke represented industrial interests, especially those of the Ruhr industry, in various associations. For many years he was President of the Essen Chamber of Commerce. He was also chairman of the Association for Mining Interests in the Dortmund District Mining Authority (1890–1902). As a member of the board of directors (since 1890) and later as chairman (1901–1904), he exerted great influence on the course of the Central Association of German Industrialists. In these offices, too, he represented a pronounced authoritarian socio-political stance.

After conflicts with the company owner Friedrich Alfred Krupp , Jencke left the service in 1902. He moved to Dresden and in 1903 became chairman of the Dresdner Bank supervisory board . Since 1904 he was a member of the first Saxon Chamber of Estates . He received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Frese: Organization theory: historical development, approaches, perspectives. Gabler Verlag, 1992 p. 14 Partial digitization
2. ↑ See e.g. B. his speech on social insurance at the delegates' meeting in 1897 in: Collection of sources for the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Expansion and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890-1904) , Volume 1, Basic Questions of Social Policy , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Darmstadt 2016, No. 105.
3. ^ Directory of honorary doctoral candidates at the TH / TU Dresden

literature

• Hanns Ludwig Bachfeld:  Jencke, Hanns. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 399 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Vers .: Hanns Jencke (1843-1910) . In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien. Volume 11, Aschendorff, Münster 1983, pp. 163-194.
• Hartmut Kaelble : Industrial interest politics in the Wilhelminian society. Central Association of German Industrialists 1895 to 1914. Berlin, 1967 p. 209 Partial digitization
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 7: Supplement A – K, Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 . Pp. 509-511.