Heinrich Lueg

Heinrich Lueg [ ˈluːk ] (born September 14, 1840 in Sterkrade , † April 7, 1917 in Düsseldorf ) was an industrialist and city councilor in Düsseldorf.

Life

Heinrich Lueg was the son of Wilhelm Lueg and brother of Carl Lueg , both in management positions at Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen . Together with Ludwig and Franz Haniel junior, he founded the machine factory "Haniel & Lueg" on Grafenberger Allee in Düsseldorf in 1873. From 1893 to 1910 he was the second president of the Association of German Mechanical Engineering Institutions founded in 1892 . From 1894 to 1914 Lueg represented the city of Düsseldorf in the Rhenish provincial parliament .

Clock tower on Grafenberger Allee

After helping to shape the Rheinisch-Westfälische industrial and trade exhibition in 1880, Lueg founded the Central-Gewerbeverein for Rhineland and Westphalia and neighboring districts , which he chaired until his death. He also initiated the large industrial and trade exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1902. From 1888 he was a member of the Düsseldorf city council. He campaigned for the construction of the Oberkasseler Brücke and, along with Franz Haniel junior, Friedrich Vohwinkel and August Bagel, was one of the founders of the Rheinische Bahngesellschaft in 1896. Lueg and Bagel's largest company was the establishment of the real estate company "Rheinische Bahngesellschaft", which was part of the structural The development and settlement of Oberkassel had contributed.

The clock tower of the mechanical engineering company "Haniel & Lueg" is still recognizable in the Düsseldorf cityscape as the legacy of Heinrich Lueg. The now lonely old clock tower, built in 1875, once stood on the site of the iron foundry and served as a gatekeeper's house. It was through him that the workers entered the plant.

Heinrich Lueg had repeatedly influenced the development of the city, and not only in the industrial sector: city expansion, associations, local transport, exhibitions, the promotion of the arts and urban politics are closely associated with his name. In 1912, on his initiative, the Düsseldorf Industry Club was founded, which still exists today.

Grave site of the Heinrich Lueg family in the north cemetery in Düsseldorf

Heinrich Lueg is buried in the north cemetery in Düsseldorf .

family

Heinrich Lueg married Laura in 1872 (born September 7, 1847 in Meißen; † June 20, 1913 in Düsseldorf), a granddaughter of Gottlob Jacobi and daughter of Johann Ernst Jacobi (born April 1, 1814 in Sterkrade; † May 31, 1867 in Meißen ), Co-owner of the iron foundry and mechanical engineering company in Meissen , and Auguste Brosey (1826–1867). They had five children: Elsa (1873–1873), Ernst (1874–1952), Walter (1876–1908), Margarete (* 1878) and Heinrich (* 1880).

Awards

Commander's Cross 2nd class of the Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion
Cross of Honor III. Class of the Lippe House Order
Commander's Cross of the Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig
Prussian Red Eagle Order II. Class
Prussian Crown Order II class
Schaumburg-Lippisches Cross of Honor 2nd class
Officer's Cross of the Star Order of Romania

Secret Commerce Council

Honorary citizen in his hometown Düsseldorf

The Luegallee and Luegplatz in the district of Oberkassel are named after Heinrich Lueg.

literature

Bodo Herzog: Lueg, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 463 ( digitized version ).
Hermann Kleinfeld: Düsseldorf's streets and their names from the founding of the city to the present. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-928234-36-6 .
Memories of Heinrich Lueg. In: Our Century. Chronicle of a peninsula. Düsseldorf 1904-2004. (PDF file; 3.9 MB) Transport and Improvement Association for the left bank of the Rhine in the city of Düsseldorf (Ed.), Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-89978-017-5 . P. 44.

Web links

Johann Julius Heinrich Lueg family. Computer Genealogy Association, accessed April 27, 2016
Düsseldorf City History: Phases of Urban Development 1854 to 1914 , at cl-historia.de, accessed on October 22, 2016

Individual evidence

↑ Members of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament 1888–1933 (according to place of residence). Landschaftsverband Rheinland, accessed on February 10, 2013 (PDF file; 209 kB)
^ Hugo Weidenhaupt: Brief history of the city of Düsseldorf. Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, 9th revised edition, p. 136.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g German Order Almanac. Born in 1908/9. Verlag "Deutscher-Ordens-Almanach", Berlin 1908, p. 931

personal data
SURNAME	Lueg, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lueg, Johann Julius Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German industrialist and city councilor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sterkrade
DATE OF DEATH	April 7, 1917
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Members of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament 1888–1933 (according to place of residence). Landschaftsverband Rheinland, accessed on February 10, 2013 (PDF file; 209 kB)

[2] Hugo Weidenhaupt: Brief history of the city of Düsseldorf. Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, 9th revised edition, p. 136.

[:0-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g German Order Almanac. Born in 1908/9. Verlag "Deutscher-Ordens-Almanach", Berlin 1908, p. 931