Hugo Wilhelm von Waldthausen

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Hugo Wilhelm von Waldthausen (born May 10, 1853 in Essen , † January 28, 1931 in Wiesbaden ) was a German industrialist .

Life

Hugo Wilhelm von Waldthausen came from the Essen patrician and industrial family Waldthausen . He was the youngest of seven children of the businessman Jobst Wilhelm von Waldthausen and Henriette Luise Ahrens. After finishing school, he studied engineering at RWTH Aachen University . Here he joined the Corps Rhenania , which received him in the summer semester of 1875.

In 1887, together with the Dortmund chemist Dr. Ernst Wirth and the Werner engineer Otto Schulz founded the chemical factory Dr. Wirth, Waldthausen u. Schulz , who made tar products, road tar, pitch , raw naphthalene and carbolineum from coal tar . In 1918 the factory was sold to the Ludwigshafen company Raschig , which still produces in Werne today.

Services to the common good

From 1895 to 1900 Hugo Wilhelm von Waldthausen Werner was a local councilor and from 1900 to 1916 the community leader of Werne. In 1903 he donated the fourth and largest bell of the Evangelical Church in Bochum-Werne and in 1913 10,000 marks to the fund for the establishment of a gymnasium with bathing facilities in the municipality of Werne.

Honors

  • For his services to the common good, Hugo Wilhelm von Waldthausen was appointed royal councilor of commerce .
  • Von-Waldthausen-Strasse was named after him in Werne in 1929 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855-2005 . Braunschweig 2005, p. 312
  2. ↑ Our Church - "Evangelical Church Bochum-Werne"
  3. ↑ Peter Kracht: On the history of the outdoor pool in Bochum-Werne. On: bochum.de .
  4. ↑ Google maps Germany: Von-Waldthausen-Straße, 44894 Bochum
personal data
SURNAME Waldthausen, Hugo Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldthausen, Hugo von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bochum industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1931
Place of death Wiesbaden