Hugo von Hoesch

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Hugo Hoesch , from 1912 von Hoesch , (born January 13, 1850 in Düren ; † November 12, 1916 in Dresden ) was a German entrepreneur in the paper industry and a lifelong member of the First Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament .

Live and act

The son of the mining entrepreneur Leopold Hoesch (1820–1899) and Henriette Sibylla Maria Hoesch (1823–1872), daughter of the iron manufacturer and uncle of her husband Eberhard Hoesch , began his military service as a one-year volunteer in the 2nd Guard Uhlan after his school days . Regiment , with which he took part in the Franco-German War 1870/71 and was awarded the war memorial for the campaigns 1870-71 . He then completed his apprenticeship as a paper manufacturer at various Westphalian and Saxon paper mills and in Switzerland.

Once in 1871, the two older brothers of Hugo Hoesch, Wilhelm (1845-1923) and Albert Hoesch (1847-1898), together with the father after Dortmund had gone, where she co-founded the Westfalenhütte and shareholder of the new company Hoesch AG were bought The father as compensation for Hugo at a foreclosure auction in 1876 , the Königsteiner paper factory in Bielatal , which it expanded into one of the most modern fine paper mills in Germany in the following decades. For these previous services, Hoesch was appointed royal Saxon commercial councilor in 1887 . Next, he founded with his cousin Otto Hoesch in 1890, first in Pirna the sulfite - pulp -Fabrik Hoesch & Co. , two years later, a second, neighboring Heidenau located companies and in 1905 again in Pirna a third plant according to the latest technical standard . With his now four companies, Hoesch has specialized in characters , names and decorations as watermarks in paper, which has given him a long-standing pioneering and leading role in his industry.

After the death of Hugo von Hoesch in 1916 and his eldest son Alfred in 1908, his three other children took over the management of the company, but they could hardly be seen in Königstein. Nevertheless, they made sure that the senior staff represented their interests and also sent paper industry specialists from their Rhenish factories to Königstein. Hoesch's operations were now divided into two companies: the fine paper factory Hugo Hoesch in Königstein and the sulphite cellulose factory Hoesch & Co. in Pirna and Heidenau . Both existed as private companies until 1945 and were then continued as a state-owned company .

In addition to his multiple professional obligations, Hoesch belonged to numerous associations and associations. Since the founding of the Association of Saxon Paper Manufacturers in 1895, he held the position of chairman, was a substitute for the board of the ninth section of the Paper Manufacturers' Liability Insurance Association in the Kingdom of Saxony until 1902 and was then a member of the board of the Association of German Paper Manufacturers. In addition, he chaired the supervisory board of the Vereinigte Strohstoff-Fabriken in Coswig and was a member of the supervisory boards of Dresdner Bank and the Hasseröder paper factory.

Hoesch chose to live in the Königstein district of Hütten , where he also held the office of mayor of the municipality until his death in 1879. Later he became a member of the district council and district committee of the Pirna administration and a member of the conservative Pirna club, which only existed from 1890 to 1899 . With this association, Hoesch campaigned significantly for the re-election of Carl Friedrich Lotze , who was to be classified as anti-Semitic, with a declaration of June 16, 1898, which read: “In view of the social-democratic presumptions, the members of the Reich loyal association are urgently requested to close man for man for To enter Mr. CF Lotze in Dresden and give him her vote on June 16. - Commerzienrat Hugo Hoesch, Hütten. “ After the association was dissolved, Hoesch was elected to the committee of those interested in transport of the permanent tariff commission in Berlin and to the Saxon railway council. Finally appointed the Saxon King Friedrich August III. In 1907, Hoesch became a lifelong member of the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament and in 1912 awarded him the hereditary title of nobility.

As a private person, Hoesch made outstanding contributions to horse racing in Dresden . He owned his own horse racing stable and was a co-founder of the Dresdner Rennverein 1890 e. V. and headed the association as president from 1907 until his death. In this function, Hoesch also played a major role in the construction of the Dresden horse racing track in the Seidnitz district .

In addition to the above-mentioned awards, Hoesch was named a Knight of the Order of Albrecht for his economic and political merits and received the Chinese Order of the Double Dragon .

family

Hugo von Hoesch was married to Mathilde Friederike geb. von Schoeller (1857–1913), daughter of the major entrepreneur Gustav Adolph von Schoeller, also from Düren and active in Austria . With her he had two sons and two daughters. The eldest son Alfred Hoesch (1878–1908), intended to be the heir of the company, was in Naples with Josepha geb. von Carlowitz died unexpectedly.

The second son, Leopold von Hoesch (1881–1936), entered the diplomatic career in 1907 after passing the state examination in law . Among other things, he worked in the Foreign Office , first became Counselor in Paris in 1921, then German Chargé d'Affaires in 1923 and Ambassador in 1924 , first in France and later in Great Britain . The daughters Marianne Adele Pauline von Hoesch (* 1883), who married the Aachen cloth manufacturer Hans van Gülpen, and Adele Ella Maria von Hoesch (* 1889) also lived in western Germany in the 1930s.

In his second marriage Hugo von Hoesch was born with Irmgard. Balcke married.

Literature and Sources

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Jensch: Jews in Pirna . with reports by Max Tabaschnik, Ilse Fischer, b. Engler and Esra Jurmann. 1996, p. 14 ( PDF, 659 KiB ).
personal data
SURNAME Hoesch, Hugo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoesch, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur in the paper industry
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1916
Place of death Dresden