Hugo Auvera

Hugo Auvera (born June 23, 1880 in Arzberg (Upper Franconia) , † December 14, 1962 in Nuremberg ) was a German entrepreneur and Freemason .

Life

family

Hugo Auvera was born on June 23, 1880 as the son of the porcelain factory owner and Royal Bavarian Commerce Councilor Karl Auvera and his wife Bertha, née. Blechschmidt was born as the second of six children in Arzberg / Upper Franconia. His father comes from the "van der Auvera" family, a Dutch family of sculptors and aristocrats. Jacob van der Auvera followed a call to the court of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg in 1672 and settled there. Descendants like Jacob, Johann and Lucas van der Auvera were all artists and sculptors at the Würzburger Hof and were significantly involved in the construction of the new residence under Balthasar Neumann . Their names appear again and again in the history books of the Würzburg and Main Franconian area in connection with Balthasar Neumann, Antonio Bossi, Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, Robert de Cotte and Germain Boffrand. The Dutch “van der” was removed from the name Auvera at a later date.

education and profession

Hugo Auvera attended elementary school in Arzberg, then switched to the upper secondary school in Coburg and then went to school in what was then the Gumperda near Kahla , where he stayed until the upper secondary level . From 1899 to 1900 he served as a young soldier in the 8th Field Artillery Regiment in Nuremberg and then successfully attended the ceramic college in Bunzlau / Silesia. In the following years he volunteered in various porcelain factories until he joined the CM Hutschenreuther AG porcelain factory in Hohenberg an der Eger as operations manager in 1905 . Except for a short time, Hugo Auvera remained loyal to Hutschenreuther AG.

During the First World War he served as a soldier at the front, but retired from the army in 1917 due to illness. In the early 1920s, he supplemented his professional knowledge with an extended study visit to the United States of America. There he got to know the production of jacket crowns and put this knowledge into practice on his return to Germany.

By 1927, as general director, he transformed the Hutschenreuther company into a market-leading group with a total of over 4,000 employees.

In 1927, Hugo Auvera resigned from his position as general director of Hutschenreuther AG, moved to the supervisory board and leased the Steinfels estate in the Upper Palatinate with its kaolin pits, lithin and pegmatite deposits. In 1937 he bought the estate and managed it until 1957. After the estate was sold to Wolff Freiherr von dem Bongart in the same year, Hugo Auvera moved to Nuremberg, where he spent the rest of his life and died on December 14, 1962. Hugo Auvera was buried in the historic St. Johannisfriedhof in Nuremberg.

Social Commitment

Hugo Auvera was a Freemason and was close to the Albrecht Dürer Lodge in Nuremberg. After his 80th birthday on June 23, 1960, he pursued the idea of ​​establishing a foundation and put it into practice shortly afterwards. He established two foundations, one in Bayreuth and another in Nuremberg. The purpose of the HUGO AUVERA STIFTUNG Nürnberg is: “The foundation exclusively and directly pursues charitable purposes through one-time or ongoing support of needy members and needy widows and orphans of former members of the Freemason lodge “ Albrecht Dürer ”e. V. in Nuremberg. In addition, people in need who are outside this circle, as well as corporations, institutions, etc. can also be supported. "

Honors

• Honorary citizen of the city of Hohenberg an der Eger
• Royal Commerce Council