Viktor Hoesch

Viktor Hoesch

Viktor Hoesch (born November 21, 1824 in Düren ; † April 4, 1888 ibid) was a German coal and steel entrepreneur and co-founder of Hoesch AG in Dortmund .

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The second eldest son of Eberhard Hoesch (1790-1852) and Johanna Dorothea Adelheid Hoesch born. Wuppermann (1789–1879) attended the higher citizen school in Cologne . After graduating from high school, he studied mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic from 1841 to 1845 . In October 1851, together with his brothers Gustav Hoesch and Eberhard Hoesch, he became a partner in his father's company, Eberhard Hoesch & Söhne , an ironworks in Düren- Lendersdorf . Around 1824, his father and British specialists took over an ironworks in Lendersdorf, which at that time was still insignificant, and was able to expand it considerably by introducing the puddle process for iron and steel production.

This hut became the nucleus of the later Hoesch AG in Dortmund after Victor's cousin Leopold Hoesch (1820–1899) decided in 1871 to relocate and concentrate the individual family businesses in order to improve transport and resource connections to Dortmund. Together with his brother Eberhard and Leopold's sons Wilhelm (1845–1923) and Albert Hoesch (1847–1898), Viktor Hoesch co-founded the Dortmund company. Later, the term " Karl Hoesch " was created here among the so-called Hoeschians , a lovingly meant declaration of respect that literally stands for everything that has to do with the steel company Hoesch AG.

In addition, he and his brothers were once again partners in the company Hoesch & Söhne am Sticher Berg in Eschweiler, a puddling and rolling mill also built by his father in 1846 with three blast furnaces, ten puddling furnaces and three melting furnaces. The factory premises at Sticher Berg were taken over by the steel construction company FA Neuman after the relocation of production to Dortmund and is still in existence today, whereas the Lendersdorf smelter was initially continued by his brother Gustav and only finally closed in the later 20th century.

Like all members of the Hoesch family, Hoesch was very socially minded. His heirs donated 15,000 marks to the voluntary poor association  . At the house at Kölner Landstrasse 107, built in 1953, there is a donor plaque in memory of Viktor Hoesch.

See also

• Plaques and monuments on houses in Düren

literature

• Justus Hashagen , Fritz Brüggemann : History of the Hoesch family. Volume 2: From the Age of Religious Unrest to the Present. Cologne 1916.
• Horst Mönnich: Departure for the area. Departure to Europe. Hoesch 1871–1971. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7654-1441-7 . (Anniversary band of Hoesch Aktiengesellschaft, Dortmund)