Rudolf Haas (entrepreneur)

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Rudolf Haas

Rudolf Haas (born November 2, 1843 in Dillenburg ; † October 28, 1916 in Sinn ) was a German entrepreneur and owner of the Neuhoffnungshütte near Sinn .

Life

Rudolf Haas attended the Dillenburg Latin School from 1853 and the Weilburg grammar school from 1857 to 1863 . He studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Montanhochschule Leoben . On January 30, 1864, he was reciprocated in the Corps Tauriscia Leoben . In 1867 he joined his father's company. Under his leadership (sole management from 1900) the company's development accelerated. In addition to the introduction and expansion of the electricity supply, the company's own railway network with a connection to the Reichseisenbahn kept the company competitive. By relocating from iron mining (at the turn of the century Haas & Sohn owned 168 pieces of mine) and metallurgy to processing products such as wire, pens, horseshoes, cooking utensils, ovens, material for railway construction, etc., future-oriented sales markets could be opened up. The model change from a multi-storey deck oven to a modern room filling control oven with industrial designer Franz Boeres was exemplary . He fulfilled his bourgeois lifelong dream with the planning and construction of a new Villa Haas at the company location near Sinn and its historic park. Initially, the private builder Bovensiepen (Essen), who had already designed some entrepreneurial villas such as the Villa Waldrich in Siegen, provided advice. The contract was finally given to the younger architect Ludwig Hofmann , who was also responsible for the further development of the urban development ensemble Hansastrasse / Rudolfstrasse in Sinn around 1900. Typical for Haas was technical innovations such as B. the reinforced concrete construction (known since the Paris World Exhibition), to plan. His social commitment is shown in the construction of new workers' settlements with single homes and consumer establishments. Rudolf Haas was a co-founder of the renowned Association of German Ironworkers and a member of the Nassau Association for Natural History .

Honors

Coat of arms of the Haas family

literature

  • Bauert-Keetmann, Ingrid and Helmut Prawitz: History of the Neuhoffnungshütte ironworks and the company W. Ernst Haas & Sohn, Sinn, 1963.
  • Klaus F. Müller: Park and Villa Haas - Historicism, Art and Lifestyle , Edition Winterwork, Borsdorf 2012 ISBN 978-3-86468-160-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 911 No. 7088, p. 22 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Otto Noll: The Corps Tauriscia to Leoben. 1862-1866 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 19 (1974), pp. 151–158.
  3. ↑ Otto Renkhoff: Nassauische Biographie, p. 262, ISBN 3-922244-90-4
  4. ↑ From "Mitteilungen des Württembergischer Kunstverein", Stuttgart, year 1907/08, issue 1, p. 40: From the revival through artistic forms of jewelry, which happened to almost all luxury and everyday objects in the last decade, oddly enough, a piece of furniture was in no room is absent, almost completely excluded; the mass-produced iron room stove. The credit for having intervened in reforming here goes to the young sculptor and craftsperson Franz Boeres who, on behalf of the Ernst Haas and Son company in Sinn (Nassau), designed a number of stoves in the modern style, which are well-designed for modern room furnishings customize the happiest.
  5. ↑ Architectural review 10th cent. 1894 Issue 1, panels 3–7 (Technical University of Darmstadt, Department of Building History)
  6. ^ Haenel, Oswald: Simple villas and country houses. A collection of interesting buildings and original designs by well-known architects at home and abroad. Gilbers'sche Königl. Hof-Verlagbuchhandlung (J.Bleyl), Dresden 1902
  7. ↑ Herborner Tageblatt 23.03.2015, p. 10, "Must villa give way?", Letter from the former city archivist Rüdiger Störkel on the cultural heritage of the Sinner factory owner's villas
personal data
SURNAME Haas, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German coal and steel entrepreneur, owner of the Neuhoffnungshütte at Sinn
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1916
Place of death Sinn (Hessen)