Wilhelm Lueg

Hermann Wilhelm Lueg: The founder of Eisenheim

Wilhelm Lueg (born September 19, 1792 in Wellinghofen , † March 19, 1864 in Sterkrade ) was the hut director of the St. Antony hut and the first employed manager of the later Gutehoffnungshütte group (GHH).

Life

After completing his training at the Soest teachers' college, the son of a farmer was initially hired as a private tutor to the hut director Gottlob Jacobi . There he soon began to be interested in iron production and in 1815 traveled to the Aachen and Liège mining regions on behalf of Jacobi in order to expand his knowledge there. Two years later Jacobi appointed him as a hut manager on St. Antony. In 1819 Lueg married Sophie Haniel (1798–1884), a niece of Franz and Gerhard Haniel . Both Haniel brothers were again Jacobi's business partners who, together with Heinrich Arnold Huyssen, owned the Hüttengewerkschaft und Handlung Jacobi, Haniel & Huyssen (JHH), from which the Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) later emerged.

After Jacobi's sudden death in 1823, Lueg was the first employed manager to become the managing director of the JHH and in this role played a key role in its rise to a large company. He also earned merit in the area of ​​corporate social policy, for example by setting up support funds for the workforce and building factory settlements, including the Eisenheim estate .

When Lueg died in 1864, his son Carl Lueg succeeded him in this post; after the transformation into a stock corporation, he became the first chairman of the GHH board in 1873.

Wilhelm Lueg is buried in the Protestant cemetery in Sterkrade on Steinbrinkstrasse.

literature

• Johannes Bähr, Ralf Banken, Thomas Flemming: The MAN. A German industrial history. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57762-8 , Google preview .
• Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH (Ed.): Haniel 1756-2006. A chronicle in data and facts. Franz Haniel & Cie, Duisburg-Ruhrort 2006.
• Bodo Herzog:  Lueg, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 460-462 ( digitized version ).
• Bodo Herzog: Wilhelm Lueg (1792-1864 ), in: Tradition: Journal for Company History and Business Biography, Volume 16, Issue 2. (March / April 1971), 49–71.
• Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff, Hermann Strasser : Heads of the Ruhr. 200 years of industrial history and structural change in the light of biographies. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0036-3 , p. 40ff.