Ludwig Lenz (building contractor)

Ludwig Christian Lenz (born May 10, 1888 in Schnait ; † 1969 ) was a German building contractor and engineer.

Ludwig Lenz was the son of a wine grower in Schnait . He was one of the first employees of the company founder Eduard Züblin , who founded the Züblin company in Strasbourg in 1898. When the branches became independent after the death of Züblin (1916) and the aftermath of the First World War, Lenz and other senior executives took over the southern German branch based in Stuttgart. This became Züblin AG (1919). Most recently, he was CEO of Züblin.

In 1961 he was awarded the Emil Mörsch Memorial Medal , and in 1968 the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a star. Lenz was an honorary senator from the University of Stuttgart.

A prize for the best civil engineering student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is called the Ludwig Lenz Züblin Prize and was donated by Züblin in 1969. At the University of Stuttgart every year since 1959, book vouchers (previously books) set up by the Lenz family and one by Züblin have been awarded to master's students in Faculty 2: Civil and Environmental Engineering (so-called Lenz book donation).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ignaz Walter von Walter Bau took over the majority in 1988 and after Walter-Bau went bankrupt, Züblin joined Strabag . Albert Gieseler, Ed. Züblin AG construction company . However, the Lenz family still held more than 40 percent of the shares in 2008 and felt that the announced capital increase by Strabag was a continuation of Walter's pushing out of their company. Martin Buchenau: Lenz puts stones in the way of Strabag, 2008 ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
2. ↑ Ludwig Lenz Züblin Prize

literature

• Who is who ?: Das Deutsche who's who , Volume 15.Arani, Berlin, 1967, p. 1137.