Walter Haenel

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Walter Haenel (born August 15, 1862 in Magdeburg , † February 13, 1928 in Düsseldorf ) was a German industrialist .

Life

Walter Haenel studied at the Technical Universities of Braunschweig and Stuttgart Engineering . In Braunschweig he joined the Corps Teutonia and in Stuttgart the Corps Stauffia . In 1885 he took up a position as a construction engineer at Peiner Walzwerk .

On October 1, 1888, he moved to Hasper Hütte as a production engineer . In 1890 he married a granddaughter of the main limited partner and plant manager Peter Krieger. When the Krieger & Co. steelworks faced bankruptcy after a lengthy financial crisis, it was converted into a stock corporation in 1894 under the leadership of Peter Klöckner and Haenel was appointed technical director. Under his leadership, the smelter underwent constant expansion, which in 1906 reached a preliminary climax with the commissioning of the first blast furnace at the Hasper works. In 1904, Haenel managed to get Peter Klöckner to choose Haspe and not Duisburg as the location for a new blast furnace plant. Pig iron and crude steel were to be produced in Haspe until 1972 . In the same year, 1906, he was appointed general director of Hasper Eisen- und Stahlwerk Aktiengesellschaft. The end of 1923 he retired from the management of the company and later switched to the Supervisory Board of Klöckner-Werke .

Walter Haenel was a board member of the Association of German Ironworkers for many years .

Honors

  • Awarded an honorary doctorate from RWTH Aachen University (Dr.-Ing. E. h.) In the winter semester of 1922/23
  • Renaming of Bahnhofstrasse in Haspe, today Hagen-Haspe, in Haenelstrasse in 1930

literature

  • Jochen Becker, Gisela Baake: Hasper Gold: A reading book on the history of the Hasper hut. Bookmark Verlag, Hagen 1997, ISBN 978-3930217052 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd-A. Kahe, Alfred Priemeier, Ernst Battmer, Nils Höpken: Corps lists of the Braunschweig Seniors' Convent in the WSC, Teutonia, No. 39.Braunschweig, 1990
personal data
SURNAME Haenel, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1928
Place of death Dusseldorf