Ludolf Matthias Hoesch

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Ludolf Matthias Hoesch (born September 14, 1788 in Schneidhausen , † July 16, 1859 in Düren ) was a German paper industrialist .

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The son of the iron and paper manufacturer Eberhard Hoesch (1756-1811) and Sara Schleicher (1760-1814) inherited all of them together with his brothers Eberhard Hoesch (1790-1852) and Wilhelm Hoesch (1791-1831) after the death of their father Company consisting of the paper mills in Krauthausen and Schneidhausen as well as the ironworks in Zweifallshammer and Simonskall and which now traded under the Hoesch brothers. After a series of bad years with falling iron prices, the company was split up in 1819 and Ludolf was awarded the most highly rated Krauthausen plant, founded in 1786, in a raffle, while Eberhard and Wilhelm Hoesch jointly received the remaining plants. Ludolf Hoesch was the first in the family to devote himself exclusively to paper production. In addition, in 1829 he received the concession to build the Friedenau paper mill in Niederau , a neighboring town of Kreuzau .

These two companies represented the starting point for the upswing of the Hoesch family's paper mills for the next few decades. In 1841, Hoesch acquired additional shares in the Oberste Mühle paper mill from Ludolf Schüll (1801–1863) in Kreuzau, which was primarily achieved through excellent postal services. and drawing papers had gained recognition and now operated under the name Schüll & Hoesch . The aim of this merger was to stand up to the enormous competitive pressure of the Schoellershammer paper mill, which was also established in Krauthausen . Ludolf Hoesch was one of the first of its kind to equip the plant with a steam engine , which enabled a considerable increase in production. However, the contract was terminated in 1846 because Ludolf Schüll wanted to take advantage of this boom and manage his original work on his own again.

Hoesch now took the opportunity to modernize its Krauthausen plant, which was now also called Hoeschmühle , by installing English paper machines . At the same time, from 1846 onwards, he involved his sons Matthias Eberhard Ludolf (1818–1868), Wilhelm Edmund (1820–1891) and Eduard Hoesch (1821–1894) in his company and now operated jointly as Hoesch & Sons . One year before Ludolf Hoesch's death in 1857, his former partner Ludolf Schüll went bankrupt and Eduard Hoesch had now seized the opportunity to acquire the Oberste Mühle factory again for the family's property.

After Ludolf Hoesch's death, the entire company Hoesch & Söhne was dissolved and proportionally transferred to his three sons. In addition to the above-mentioned Oberste Mühle plant, this also resulted in the Gebr. Hoesch GmbH company with the Friedenau plant and the Mittleren Mühle plant in Kreuzau-Niederau, which has since been taken over, as well as the Ludolf & Emil Hoesch company on the Hoeschmühle in Krauthausen. The companies Eugen Hoesch & Orthaus (1885) and Paul Emil Hoesch KG later emerged from the Ludolf & Emil Hoesch plant , all of which no longer exist.

The Friedenau plant passed to Ludolf's grandson Heinrich Arthur Hoesch, was acquired by Melitta-Werken AG in 1939 and closed in 1981. On the site of this former paper factory, new assembly capacities for whirlpools and whirlpools were created in 1987 for the bathtub factory Hoesch Metall- und Kunststoffwerk , which emerged from the family-owned smelter in Haus Schneidhausen and is now one of the largest bathtub manufacturers in Europe.

The factory in Kreuzau-Niederau was taken over by Ludolf's second grandson Walter Hoesch (1851–1916), from whom a leading supplier of white- lined corrugated base paper for the packaging industry has developed. In 1993, Gebr. Hoesch was taken over by the Swiss company Sihl, which ceased production in Kreuzau-Niederau the following year. Parts of the plant were then taken over by the Niederauer Mühle paper mill . Walter's son, Professor of Chemistry Kurt Hoesch (1882–1932), remained connected to Kreuzau and made a name for himself as a sponsor for local sports. The sports facility in Kreuzau was named Kurt-Hoesch-Kampfbahn after him.

Ludolf Matthias Hoesch was married (1813) to Juliane Schleicher (1793–1868), with whom he had the daughter Maria Emma (1814–1845) in addition to the already mentioned sons , who in 1833 later became the Cologne sugar manufacturer ( Pfeifer & Langen ) Emil Pfeifer (1806-1889) married. (In the "Chronicle of the Pfeifer Family" a slightly different spelling: Ludolph Mathias Hoesch and Mrs. Maria Agnes Julie , née Schleicher. This chronicle was published around 1975, but was only distributed within the Pfeifer family.)

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SURNAME Hoesch, Ludolf Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoesch, Ludolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paper industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneidhausen
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1859
Place of death Düren