Konrad Hornschuch

Friedrich Konrad Hornschuch (born September 13, 1864 in Fürth ; † October 31, 1943 in Eßlingen am Neckar ) was a German entrepreneur and founder of Konrad Hornschuch AG . He has received numerous awards for his entrepreneurial and social services, including as an honorary senator of the Technical University of Stuttgart and an honorary citizen of Unterurbach .

Life

He was a son of the industrialist Heinrich Hornschuch (1838-1912) and attended elementary school and commercial school in Fürth, then completed a craft training in hand weaving in Weißenstadt and at the weaving school in Heidenheim. He then worked in his father's company Weber & Ott in Fürth and in the cotton weaving mill in Zöschlingsweiler . In 1887 he became a partner in Weber & Ott. In the same year he married Luise Mathilde Leuze (1866–1951), the daughter of the Württemberg industrialist Christoph Adolf Leuze .

When his father's company, Weber & Ott, was converted into a family stock corporation in 1905 , Konrad Hornschuch left the company and, with the help of the Leuze family, founded his own company in Urbach , today's Konrad Hornschuch AG . When it was founded, the company was purely a spinning mill , and weaving , sewing and dyeing works were soon added. In the 1920s, Hornschuch took over a plant in Weißbach near Künzelsau, where artificial leather and linen were produced and where the company's headquarters are today. In addition, in 1920 Konrad Hornschuch and Hermann Schweitzer founded the Württemberg terry weaving mill in Lustnau in Tübingen.

Hornschuch has received numerous awards for its entrepreneurial performance. In 1923 he was made an honorary senator of the TH Stuttgart and in 1931 an honorary citizen of Unterurbach. He was also honored several times posthumously. In 1944, Hornschuch-Strasse in Tübingen and in 1953 Konrad-Hornschuch-Strasse in Urbach were named after him.

The marriage with Luise Mathilde Leuze (1866–1951) had two children: Willy (1889–1962), who continued the business of his father, and Margaretha Elisabeth (* 1892), who in 1912 became the government master builder and later technical manager of the Hornschuch works in Urbach, Curt Dimler, married.

literature

• Hermann Strole: We live and weave in it - 50 years of Konrad Hornschuch: The landscape, the sex, the factory, the anniversary , Urbach 1956, pp. 163–167.

Web links

• Early documents and newspaper articles on Konrad Hornschuch AG in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .