Hugo Haschke

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Reinhold Carl: Portrait of Hugo Haschke (bronze)

Hugo Haschke (born January 4, 1865 , † August 19, 1918 in Leipzig ) was a German merchant and cigar manufacturer .

Life

Hugo Haschke came from a modest background. After completing his schooling, he dealt with the methods of cigar production out of personal interest. He procured wooden molds and winding devices and began handcrafting the first hashke cigars, which he sold to inns and grocery stores. Sales went so well that he was soon able to have the first banderoles and cigar boxes made with his own label . The first women were hired after two years.

From the beginning, Haschke paid attention to the excellent quality of the tobacco he used , which he obtained from the Dutch colonies .

In 1906, Haschke opened his cigar shop at Gottschedstrasse 23. In 1914, Haschke already had 300 employees. During the First World War, Haschke increased the production of his cigars, which are known throughout Germany, by also supplying the German army , which equipped its officers' mess , barracks and soldiers on the war front with them. The number of employees in his factories rose to 1,300 by 1918.

In 1918 Hugo Haschke was awarded the title of Royal Saxon Commerce Councilor. In the same year, the entrepreneur died at the age of 53 and was buried in a representative tomb, designed by the architect Otto Paul Burghardt and artistically furnished by Reinhold Carl , in the Südfriedhof in Leipzig.

The company was successfully continued by his son Carl Haschke (1892–1980) until the expropriation in the Soviet zone of occupation in 1946.

Grave site of Hugo Haschke

Patronage

Hugo Haschke donated the lion fountain in Leipzig out of gratitude for his appointment to the council of commerce . In addition, he was an important patron of the arts who , with his means, made it possible, for example, to purchase the large Peru collection Buck in 1913 and the Cameroon collection Adolf Diehl for the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig .

literature

  • Alfred E. Otto Paul: The burial place of the family Kommerzienrat Hugo Haschke. In: Alfred E. Otto Paul: The art in silence. Art treasures in Leipzig cemeteries. Volume 1, Leipzig 2009, p. 54 ff.
  • Erhard Kaps : Captured, imprisoned, freed. Experiences of a Leipziger. Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha 1999, p. 144 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Haschke, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1865
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1918
Place of death Leipzig