Hans Haehnle

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Hans Haehnle (born July 29, 1838 in Giengen an der Brenz , † July 5, 1909 in Stuttgart ) was a German entrepreneur and politician . He was several times a member of the German Reichstag and an honorary citizen of the city of Giengen.

Life

Haehnle completed his professional training with the master dyer Hefelen in Giengen. In Austria he got to know the production of felt , which had advantages compared to domestic cloth manufacture . In Giengen he founded his own company for the manufacture of felt.

Later he bought paper factories in Gerschweiler and Hörbranz (Austria) and in 1881 the felt factories in Augsburg , Lambrecht (Palatinate) and Neidenfels . He founded the United Filzfabriken , to which the felt factory in Fulda was affiliated in 1882 . 1892 in Reims , the Manufacture de Feutres de Reims established to the high tariffs to prevent imports into France.

Haehnle was also charitable, among other things he built healthy workers' apartments - also on the initiative of his cousin Lina Hähnle , who was married to him and who founded the Federation for Bird Protection , from which the Naturschutzbund Deutschland emerged . Haehnle was given honorary citizenship of the city of Giengen in 1908 and his widow in 1930 .

He was a member of the Heidenheim Chamber of Commerce and Industry , the Advisory Board of the Central Office for Trade and Commerce and the Advisory Board of the Royal Württemberg Transport Authority. From February 1895 to November 1906 he held a mandate as a member of the People's Party in the second chamber of the Württemberg state parliament in the constituency of Heidenheim .

From 1882 to 1884, from 1890 to 1893 and from 1895 to 1903 he was a member of the German Reichstag as a member of the constituency of Württemberg 14 ( Ulm , Heidenheim , Geislingen ) and a member of the German People's Party . In 1882 and 1895 he was elected in a replacement election after the previous Reichstag elections had been declared invalid.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd edition, Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 245.

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 307 f .

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personal data
SURNAME Haehnle, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hähnle, Hans; Hähnle, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and politicians (DtVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Giengen
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1909
Place of death Stuttgart