Hugo Cadenbach (banker)

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Hugo Cadenbach (born October 2, 1916 in Aachen ; † September 29, 2000 there ) was a German private banker and diplomat . He held numerous honorary positions, in particular spokesman for the board of directors of the International Charlemagne Prize in Aachen and president and honorary president of the Aachen-Laurensberger racing club .

Life

Hugo Cadenbach was born in 1916 at Rahe Castle , the residence of his grandfather Victor Weidtman and his wife Adele. His parents were Hugo Cadenbach , district judge and general director as well as chairman of the board of the Stolberger Zink , a mining and metal smelting company , and Maria Cadenbach, geb. Weidtman, a sister of the banker Hans Weidtman . Hugo Cadenbach attended the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Aachen, today's Einhard-Gymnasium , and from 1931 the Salem boarding school . He passed his Abitur in 1935 at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium. After completing the mandatory for high school and high school studentsHad completed Reich labor service in Paustenbach in the Eifel , he joined the Wehrmacht , namely the 15th Cavalry Regiment in Paderborn . Used during the Second World War in France , Russia and Italy , Hugo Cadenbach - at the end of the war Rittmeister - was taken prisoner by the Americans in Livorno in May 1945 , from which he was released in August 1945. Hugo Cadenbach had married Irmgard Monheim from the Aachen factory owner family Leonard Monheim (Trumpf Schokolade, Lindt, Mauxion), a sister of Irene Ludwig, as early as 1944 . The industrialist and art patron Peter Ludwig was a brother-in-law of Hugo Cadenbach.

After his return from the war, Hugo Cadenbach initially worked as a traveling salesman in his father-in-law's company, Leonhard Monheim AG . From 1961 Hugo Cadenbach became a partner, later a personally liable partner, member of the board and finally chairman of the board of directors of the Delbrück & Co bank . Hugo Cadenbach soon played an important role in the economic and cultural life of the city of Aachen. Since 1969 he was a member of the board of directors of the Society for the award of the International Charlemagne Prize in Aachen and from 1981 to 1997 its spokesman, since 1955 member of the board and from 1959 to 1999, as successor to Rudolf Georgi, chairman of the board of the Evangelical Hospital Association, the sponsor of the Luisenhospitals Aachen , from 1968 to 1982 Vice President and from 1982 to 1991 President and later Honorary President of the Aachen-Laurensberger Rennverein, host of the CHIO Aachen , the most important equestrian tournament in the world. In addition, he was a member of the board of the German-Dutch Chamber of Commerce , commercial judge, member of the supervisory board, administrative board and advisory board of numerous companies, member and vice-president of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce as well as chairman of the Aachener Bachverein and the Gesellschaft der Musik- und Theaterfreunde Aachen and long-term member of Club Aachener Casino . From 1974 to 1990 Hugo Cadenbach was Honorary Consul of the Netherlands for the Cologne district , from 1990 Hungary's Honorary Consul for North Rhine-Westphalia.

Hugo Cadenbach found his final resting place in the family crypt on the Heissberg Cemetery in Burtscheid .

honors and awards

Hugo Cadenbach has received numerous honors and awards, including the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1998 , the Grand Cross of the Orden de Isabel la Católica in 1999 , the Commander's Cross of the Luxembourg Order of Merit and the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was an officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau , honorary citizen of RWTH Aachen University , honorary president of the German-Dutch Society and honorary commander of the Order of St. John . He wore the Golden Cross of Honor of the German Horsemen and on October 6, 1991 he was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Aachen ( List of Honorary Citizens of Aachen ).

literature

  • Anton Sterzl : The long way of Hugo Cadenbach, A German Life 1916-2000 . Aachen, 2001
  • Hugo Cadenbach: Aachen's 80th birthday honorary citizen . Aachen, Leipzig, Paris: Thouet, 1996. ISBN 3-930594-18-8
  • Eduard Arens, Wilhelm Leopold Janssen : Club Aachener Casino , printed by Wilhelm Metz, 1964 Aachen, p. 262

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.elmundo.es/nacional/consejoministros/1999/07/19990731.html
  2. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. (PDF) State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Cadenbach, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German private banker
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2000
Place of death Aachen