Hans Bolza

Hans Bolza (born September 20, 1889 in Zell am Main ; † June 6, 1986 in Würzburg ) was a German entrepreneur. He was general director and long-time chairman of the board of directors of the traditional Würzburg printing machine company Koenig und Bauer as well as IHK- President in Würzburg from 1945 to 1961. He achieved the level of engineering, a doctor of philosophy, a doctor of economics and social sciences, and was awarded an honorary doctorate appointed. Hans Bolza is the author of several books.

Life

Hans Bolza was born in 1889 and was the great-grandson of the inventor of the cylinder printing machine Friedrich Koenig . His father Albrecht Bolza, son of Friedrich's daughter Luise Koenig and Moritz Bolza , joined the company in 1886. Under his leadership, a new factory building was built at the current location on the right side of the Main (1901) and in 1905 the high-speed press factory Koenig & Bauer was converted into a GmbH.

In 1919 Hans Bolza started to work in the company "Koenig und Bauer". Under his leadership, the company was converted into a stock corporation (1920), the Bohn & Herber high-speed press factory in Würzburg was taken over and the first jaw folder was built in 1937. Both plants were destroyed in the Second World War. In 1945 Hans Bolza was appointed President of the IHK Würzburg by the occupation authorities .

Since his two sons had died early and he wanted to secure the family succession at the top of the company, Hans Bolza adopted the technician Hans-Bernhard Schünemann (1926-2010) , who had been with Koenig und Bauer since 1951, in 1959 . In 1954 he designed the Rembrandt switchable sheet-fed gravure printing machine . Schünemann came from a long-established Bremen publisher and printer family. Since then, he and his descendants have borne the double name Bolza-Schünemann. In 1971 Hans-Bernhard Bolza-Schünemann took over the chairmanship of the board.

Hans Bolza died in 1986.

Publications

Hans Bolza is the author or co-author of the following publications

National bankruptcy? Inflation? New money? Cancellation? New taxes? Answers to current questions; Würzburg, Schöningh, 1946
Outline of a systematic economics. 1st volume. 2nd, expanded edition; Published by Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1947
What are means of payment ?, Schöningh, 1948
Basic information on state finance and tax policy, 1950
Friedrich Koenig and the invention of the printing machine, in: Technikgeschichte 34, 1967
The economic process from an econometric perspective, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1967
The concept of renewal as the guiding principle of economic accounting, Kirschbaum, 1970
Currency collapse destroys the economic order - A diagnosis, 1971
The elements of econometrics; Springer, 1971

Honors

1956: Honorary membership of the Association of German Engineers (VDI)
1959: Bavarian Order of Merit
1968: Ring of Honor of the City of Würzburg

literature

Würzburg magazine for culture and economy, issues 1-6. Julius Maximilians University Würzburg, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Würzburg-Schweinfurt, City of Würzburg, Würzburg, 1966, p. 70.
Der Druckspiegel, Volume 39, Issues 7-12. Druckspiegel-Verlagsgesellschaft, Heusenstamm, Stuttgart, 1984, p. 12, 37.
Edmund Strutz : German Gender Book, Volume 214. Starke, Limburg ad Lahn, 2002, p. 591.

Web links

Literature by and about Hans Bolza in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Rolf-Ulrich Kunze : Würzburg 1945-2004. Reconstruction, modern city. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III (2007), Pp. 318-346 and 1292-1295; here: p. 332.
^ Evelyn Hauser: Company History: Koenig & Bauer AG
↑ Milestones: 190 years of Koenig & Bauer ( Memento of November 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 28 kB)
↑ Honorary Membership . In: VDI-Z. tape 98 , no. 23 , August 11, 1956, pp. 1432 ff .

personal data
SURNAME	Bolza, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German manager
DATE OF BIRTH	September 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zell am Main
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 1986
Place of death	Wurzburg

[1] Rolf-Ulrich Kunze : Würzburg 1945-2004. Reconstruction, modern city. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III (2007), Pp. 318-346 and 1292-1295; here: p. 332.

[2] Evelyn Hauser: Company History: Koenig & Bauer AG

[3] Milestones: 190 years of Koenig & Bauer ( Memento of November 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 28 kB)

[4] Honorary Membership . In: VDI-Z. tape 98 , no. 23 , August 11, 1956, pp. 1432 ff .