Hans Leopold Höhl
Hans Leopold Höhl (born May 17, 1910 in Bruchhausen ; † January 5, 1995 ) was a German businessman .
Life
Hans Leopold Höhl was the son of the marriage of the engineer Oswald Höhl and Josefine, nee. Otten. He was married to Lina Mary, b. Kilstofte-Nielsen; the marriage has two children.
After completing his commercial training at the export company Piel & Fehling in Lübeck, he joined the Possehl Group in Lübeck in 1936. Höhl was later a long-time member of the board of directors of L. Possehl & Co. mbH in Lübeck, the parent company of the companies belonging to the Possehl Group . He was a member of the supervisory board of the companies Deutscher Eisenhandel AG in Berlin, Iduna Allgemeine Versicherung AG in Hamburg, Metallhüttenwerke Lübeck AG , Max Giese-Bau GmbH, among others . From July 12, 1955 to April 30, 1977 he was chairman of the Possehl Foundation .
Höhl was a member of the board of trustees of the Marli-Werkstätten Lübeck and of the Marienkrankenhaus Lübeck. He was also honorary consul for Austria for the city of Lübeck and the Duchy of Lauenburg, Stormarn and Ostholstein in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, and from 1962 also in the city of Kiel.
In 1959, Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali made Hans Leopold Höhl Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and invested it in Essen Cathedral on June 6, 1959 by Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the Order. Most recently he was a Grand Officer of the Order. For his commitment to the Christians in the Holy Land , he was appointed Grand Crusader al merito .
honors and awards
- Knight of the Holy Sepulcher (1959)
- Senator E. h. of the Technical University of Braunschweig (1961)
- Large Federal Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1972)
- Grand Crusader al merito of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher
- Great badge of honor for services to the Republic of Austria
- Gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria
swell
- Who's who in Austria 1964, Volume 5, Page 720
- Paperback of Public Life 1973, Volume 23, Page 217
- Who is who ?: The German Who's Who 1984, Volume 23, Page 533
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hansa: Central organ for shipping, shipbuilding, port, published weekly, Volume 97 , 1960, p. 1130
- ^ Foundations from the past and the present, Volume 3 , Mohr 1982, p. 167
- ↑ Bundesanzeiger 1977, issues 1–32, page 27
- ↑ 130 years of the Austrian Embassy Berlin: from Moltkestrasse to Stauffenbergstrasse: Handbook of the representative authorities of Austria (-Hungary) in Germany since 1720 , Philo 2003, p. 349
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Höhl, Hans Leopold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Höhl, HL |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruchhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1995 |