Hugo Schultz (politician)

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Hugo Schultz (1838–1904)

Hugo Friedrich Schultz (born November 6, 1838 in Iserlohn , † June 16, 1904 in Bad Wildbad ) was a German lawyer, Prussian mining official and politician. He is considered one of the great personalities of mining in the Ruhr area . He expanded the Bochum mountain school according to his ideas and developed it into one of the leading training centers for miners. For the National Liberal Party he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1880 to 1882 and again from 1887 until his death .

Life

Hugo Schultz was born in Iserlohn. His father, Counselor Hermann Schultz (1805–1886), was a proponent of mining and was made the first honorary citizen of Bochum. Hugo Schultz attended high school in Paderborn, which he graduated at the age of sixteen. On September 10, 1855, he was assigned to the Bochum Mining Authority as a mining enthusiast and worked underground until 1857 . He studied mining law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and at the Bergakademie Berlin and received his doctorate in 1860 with a dissertation in Latin on the taxation of mining in Prussia. Schultz passed the legal traineeship on October 24, 1863 and the assessor exam on December 2, 1866 . His first job in the same year led him to the mining and forestry office in Clausthal as a mining assessor and unskilled worker and as a deputy mining district official in Goslar . In 1868 he was initially appointed teacher “by order” and in the same year also “by order” director of the Bochum mountain school. The final appointment as director of the mountain school was not made until 1885.

Act

Hugo Schultz statue by Gustav Pillig in front of the TFH Bochum , the former mountain school

As head of the Bochum mining school, Schultz also became head of the Westphalian Mining Union Fund (WBK) and as such was always committed to improvements and innovations in mining. Through the development of the mountain school system and the WBK into a central teaching and research facility, he managed to adjust the institution to the emerging problems. In this way, the increasing need for qualified personnel could be effectively met. Among other things, he founded ten pre-schools for the mountains and saved a lot of money by setting up a “multi-subsidy tax to prevent collective overproduction”, which he put into the construction of a hospital for mining victims. The hospital was called " Bergmannsheil " at his suggestion and still exists under this name today. In 1877 he was named a mountain ridge.

Schultz took care of the construction of extensive collections for teaching and demonstration purposes and advocated the establishment of research facilities, such as a coal chemical laboratory. A mine and a rope testing facility were also set up over time. As a result of his efforts, the Lower Rhine-Westphalian coal basin was scientifically mapped. These results were recorded in the work The Development of Lower Rhine-Westphalian Hard Coal Mining in the Second Half of the 19th Century , published between 1902 and 1905 in twelve volumes , published by the Rheinisch-Westfälischen Kohlen-Syndikat (RWKS) and the WBK.

Schultz was appointed to the permanent commission for technical education in 1880 and several times called for an improvement in youth qualifications. As a member of the National Liberal Party from 1880 to 1882 and again from 1887 until his death in 1904, he was a representative of the Bochum constituency in the Prussian House of Representatives, where he was committed to the interests of mining. In 1889 he asked the state to take over the maintenance obligations of the building trade schools. He also called for a reduction in school fees and campaigned for universities in the province of Westphalia . He also applied for the academy in Münster to be expanded into a university.

The appointment to the Bergrat (1877) was not followed by the promotion to the Oberbergrat until the mid-1880s, Schultz felt ignored and degraded, so he applied for his dismissal from civil service in March 1885. The Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg then planned his appointment as professor, but Schultz declined this for reasons of age. Because of his recognition in the Ruhr area and in the House of Representatives, he was awarded the honorary title of Secret Mountain Ridge in 1897 . In 1899 he was appointed to the board of the Association for Mining Interests in the Dortmund District Mining Authority . Schultz died in 1904 while he was taking a cure in Wildbad in the Black Forest.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties , Volume 3.) (with the collaboration of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne) Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 356.

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