Harold A. Hartog

Harold A. Hartog (born December 21, 1910 in Nijmegen in the Netherlands ; † September 23, 2007 in Hamburg-Blankenese ) was CEO of the Unilever Group.

The roll of honor on the main staircase of the MKG

Life

Harold A. Hartog came from a Jewish family that was one of the founding families ("Margarine Unie") of Unilever. His family had to flee from the Nazis. Hartog managed to escape to England via Portugal, where he became a member of the Dutch army in exile. He retained his Dutch citizenship even though he lived in Hamburg for several decades. He worked for Unilever from 1930. In 1948 he was appointed to the Unilever Board. He was instrumental in rebuilding the company in Europe after the Second World War. He later worked on the Overseas Committee and was CEO of Unilever NV from 1966 to 1971. Harold A. Hartog lived in Hamburg-Blankenese and in 2007 he was buried in the Blankenese cemetery.

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A patron for the Museum of Arts and Crafts

For several years he was also highly committed - with a total of approx. 15 million euros - for the Hamburg Museum of Art and Crafts and made possible the establishment of the East Asian Department with the donation of his important Chinese porcelain collection. For several years now, Harold A. Hartog has also financed the museum's staff costs. The Hartog wing and the Hartog gallery were named after him. Hartog was an honorary member of the Justus Brinckmann Society Hamburg.

Chinese plaque at the entrance to the Hartog collection in MKG Hamburg

The "Hartog Gallery" in the Museum of Art and Commerce contains over 80 objects made of Chinese porcelain, mostly from the Qing dynasty.

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The "Hartog Wing" in the Museum of Art and Crafts, which Hartog made generously possible to realize, contains an extremely valuable collection of faience and porcelain in the central axis of the house on Steintorplatz. She enjoys the highest recognition among ceramic friends. The "Hartog-Wing" was completed in 2006, so that Harold A. Hartog was able to experience the collection at this new presentation place with great joy before his death (at the age of 96).

Hamburg's mayor a. D. Henning Voscherau gave a remarkable speech at the commemoration of Harold A. Hartog's 100th birthday on December 21, 2010 in the mirror hall of the Museum of Art and Industry: "Culture and patronage - Hamburg capital of the donors" with the final sentence: " In the memory of our jubilee today, our Jewish patron Harold A. Hartog, let us pay attention to the foundations of a society understood in this way: civic sentiment, culture and patronage ".

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Harold A. Hartog made it possible for the particularly high-quality special showcases from Reier from Lauta / Saxony to be installed for both exhibition venues in the Museum of Art and Industry .

Harold Hartog was awarded honorary membership of the Justus Brinkmann Society of the Friends of the Museum of Art and Crafts as early as 1984 for all of his "great museum feats" by Ernst Barlach from 1902. "

Other foundations and honors

In 2000, Hartog was the founder and namesake of "The Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy " at Tel Aviv University ; In 2001 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the university.

In 2005 he founded the charitable "Harold A. and Ingeborg L. Hartog Foundation" in the name of his wife Ingeborg Luise (1911–1997) .

He was a bearer of high English and Dutch orders.

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1. ^ "Life and afterlife. Harold A. and Ingeborg L. Hartog and their foundation", page 22
2. ↑ M. Gretzschel in the Hamburger Abendblatt: Why there is the Hartog wing
3. ↑ M. Gretzschel in the Hamburger Abendblatt: Art and trade in new splendor
4. ↑ Vitrinen- und Glasbau REIER GmbH archive link ( memento of the original dated August 11, 2013 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. 
5. ↑ Harold A. and Ingeborg L. Hartog Foundation (eds.), “Life and Afterlife. Harold A. and Ingeborg L. Hartog and their Foundation ”, Hamburg 2012, p. 61.
6. ↑ "The Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy" ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2007 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. , Tel Aviv University  
7. ↑ "Harold Hartog of Germany, former Chairman of Unilever, was awarded a TAU honorary doctorate" ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Tel Aviv University