Ludwig Hauck

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Ludwig Hauck (born April 2, 1870 in Heilbronn ; † March 22, 1939 there ) was the owner of the cigar factory Joh. Ludw. Reiner in Heilbronn as well as chairman of the Heilbronn Chamber of Commerce , later its honorary chairman.

Life

Initials HL on the portal of the building at Allee 18 in Heilbronn

He came from the Hauck family of manufacturers and was the son of Gustav von Hauck , who was raised to the personal nobility in 1906 .

Hauck attended the humanistic grammar school in Heilbronn from October 1876 to 1885 . After that he did a commercial apprenticeship in his father's company, the Joh. Ludw cigar factory, until 1887 . Purer . From January to September 1888 he completed his training as a merchant at the Chr. Heinr grocery store. Schmidt Jr. in Heilbronn.

In 1888 he joined the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment "Queen Mother" as a one-year volunteer . In 1897 he was transferred to the 2nd foot artillery regiment in Metz as a prime lieutenant and after his transition to the reserve on December 8, 1902, he was appointed captain of the Landwehr foot artillery.

During the First World War , on December 24, 1917, Hauck became major and commander of the 3rd Landwehr Foot Artillery Battalion on the Western Front . For his achievements he received the Iron Cross II. Class on a black and white ribbon, the Iron Cross I Class, the Knight's Cross I Class of the Order of Frederick with Swords and the Military Merit Order IV Class with Crown and Swords.

From 1889 to 1890 he received technical training at the tobacco company Fese Ritter & Hillmann in Bremen and from 1890 to 1891 at the cigar factory Steinmeister & Wellensiek in Bünde . In 1892 he sat in on the brokerage firm Nienhuys & Hestermann in Amsterdam . At the end of the year he returned to his father's company. There he received power of attorney on January 1, 1893 ; on April 1, 1893, he became a partner in his father's company. He initiated the successful resale of the makes, which were previously mainly sold in Württemberg and Bavaria, to northern Germany.

He followed his father to the supervisory board of the Ackermann twisting mill . At Handelsbank Heilbronn he was chairman of the supervisory board. He was also active on the supervisory boards of other companies, either as a member or as chairman: for example at the NSU works , at the Heilbronn salt works , at the Heilbronn glassworks, at the tugboat trade on the Neckar and at the Süddeutsche Diskonto-Gesellschaft Mannheim.

In 1910 he had the villa built at Allee 18 in Heilbronn based on the designs of the architect Adolf Braunwald . The architecture of the Villa Hauck was based on the " late Baroque style of the French Sun King Louis XIV ". The war-damaged building was rebuilt in the classicism style in the post-war period and demolished in 2011.

Ludwig Hauck held several public offices. From 1905 to 1907 he was a member of the citizens' committee, from 1907 to 1919 he was a member of the municipal council, from 1929 to 1933 he was president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and from 1932 to 1933 founding president and president of the Rotary Club Heilbronn. In his honorary activities he was given a special reputation:

"The reputation that Ludwig Hauck enjoyed with the Heilbronn citizens comes from the fact that, without being a member of a political party, he was elected to the citizens' committee in 1905 and to the local council in 1907, to which he belonged until 1919 ..."

Together with his brother Otto Hauck, he was mentioned in the yearbook of wealth and income of millionaires in Württemberg :

"With only three million marks were listed [...] Kommerzienrat Ludwig Hauck from the company Johann Ludwig Reiner, cigar factory, and manufacturer Otto Hauck from the same company [...]"

The Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt paid tribute to him in an obituary after his death.

Web links

  • Entries about Ludwig Hauck on heuss.stadtarchiv-heilbronn.de

Archival material

  • Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn database, archive signature ZS-10159

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Major ADGräf: Genealogy and history of the Hauck family. Munich 1927, p. 29f, accessed on November 20, 2011
  2. ↑ Kilian Krauth: The last building block of the magnificent mile has it all . In: Heilbronn voice . April 7, 2008 ( from Stimme.de [accessed June 1, 2009]).
  3. ^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture. Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 117.
  4. ↑ Kilian Krauth: Last Bauzeuge the old avenue falls . In: Heilbronn voice . November 2, 2011 ( from Stimme.de [accessed November 2, 2011]).
  5. ^ Walter Mosthaf: The Württemberg Chambers of Commerce and Industry Stuttgart Heilbronn Reutlingen Ulm 1855–1955. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Heilbronn Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Volume II. The Chambers of Commerce 1900–1955 , Stuttgart 1962, pp. 552f.
  6. ↑ From my notebook . In: Heilbronn voice . No. 175 , August 2, 1975, pp. 9 .
  7. ↑ Honorary President Hauck † . In: Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt . No. 139 , March 23, 1939.
personal data
SURNAME Hauck, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cigar manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1939
Place of death Heilbronn