Hans Croon

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Hans Heinrich Julius Otto Croon (born April 20, 1896 in Aachen ; † October 7, 1977 in Cologne ) was a German textile manufacturer and president of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce .

Life

The son of the cloth manufacturer Otto Croon (1866–1928) and Alwine Lamberts (1870–1944) attended the Aachen secondary school until 1913 and then began an apprenticeship in his father's company "GH & J. Croon" in Aachen. During World War I served it as a volunteer and a lieutenant in the Hunters Regiment on horseback no. 7 , was wounded and with the EK I. excellent. From 1918 onwards, Croon studied economics and history at the universities of Berlin, Cologne and Aachen. Following this, he joined his father's cloth factory as a personally liable partner with effect from May 25, 1923, and held this position until 1947.

In addition, from 1936 to 1939 he took over the deputy and then until 1943 the management of the economic community of the textile industry and at the same time was head of the Rhineland district group and the specialist group for the cloth and clothing industry of this economic community. In December 1938 he was appointed President of the German Fashion Institute (DMI) as successor to Herbert Tengelmann . In addition, he was President of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce from 1941 to 1942 and headed the new Aachen Chamber of Commerce from 1943 to 1944, a merger of the Chamber of Commerce with the Aachen Chamber of Crafts . He was also a member of the Southeast Committee, later head of the trade policy committee and president of the working group for foreign trade issues of the Reichsgruppe Industrie (RGI). He was elected President of the Southeast European Society and from 1940 to 1942 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Central European Economic Conference (MWT). In this capacity, Croon founded Woll- und Tierhaar AG (Wotirag) in Turkey and developed it successfully. At the suggestion of the textile industrialist and incumbent president of the MWT, Tilo von Wilmowsky , he also got involved in Bulgaria and had a merino pattern herd bred there by crossing merino sheep with the Bulgarian and Romanian sheep breeds on the state estate Clementina in order to increase the wool yield. In addition, he managed the branded cloth association of the German fine cloth industry. From 1941 he was head of the textile industry business group on the board of directors of the East Fiber Society .

After 1947 Croon moved to Meerbusch-Büderich and worked as a freelance business consultant . Before 1953, he was also made an honorary citizen of RWTH Aachen University.

In addition, Croon was a member of the German Men's Club and since 1919 a member of the Club Aachener Casino . From 1937 to 1945 he was chairman of the board of the Evangelical Hospital Association in Aachen, responsible for the Luisenhospital Aachen . At his new place of residence he joined the FDP . There he was elected from 1958 to 1959 as district chairman of this party for the Grevenbroich district. A little later, Croon took over the reorganization of "Hanfwerke Füssen-Immenstadt AG" and was elected to the local supervisory board.

Hans Croon was first married to Irma Hasenclever (1898-1935), daughter of the director of the Rhenania chemical factory , Max Hasenclever, with whom he had a son. After her death, he first married Anita Böcking (1908–1963), daughter of the iron and steel works owner Ferdinand Böcking (1879–1965), who bore him two sons. Croon divorced her a few years later and married her cousin Inez Böcking, with whom he had two more daughters.

Literature and Sources

Eduard Arens, Wilhelm Leopold Janssen : Club Aachener Casino , new ed. by Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , Druck Metz, Aachen 2nd edition 1964, p. 219

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Offices and dates of Hans Croon on p. 214
  2. ↑ Bremisches Jahrbuch 81 (2002), p. 134f. ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / brema.suub.uni-bremen.de
  3. ↑ Honorary citizen RWTH Aachen
  4. ↑ District chairman of the FDP in the Grevenbroich district
personal data
SURNAME Croon, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Croon, Hans Heinrich Julius Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile manufacturer and President of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH 7th October 1977
Place of death Cologne