Willi Huber

This article deals with the industrialist and manager Willi Huber. For other people see Wilhelm Huber .

Bruno Franz Wilhelm Ernst Willi Huber (born October 21, 1879 in Kaiserslautern , † August 19, 1957 in Essen ) was a German coal and steel industrialist and manager of the coal and steel industry.

family

Willi Huber came from the founding families Huber and Raab of Raab Karcher & Co. His father was the Secret Commerce Councilor Carl Huber (1848–1914), his paternal grandfather was the company founder Ernst Huber (1815–1895). His mother was Helene Raab (1859–1939), his maternal grandfather Wilhelm Raab. In 1910 he married Irma Waldthausen .

Life

After graduating from the Protestant grammar school in Strasbourg in 1897 , Willi Huber first completed practical training with Raab Karcher. He then studied law at the Universities of Strasbourg and Heidelberg. In 1898 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg . After graduating from the University of Heidelberg in 1901 with a Dr. jur. After receiving his doctorate, he became an authorized officer of Raab Karcher & Co. GmbH, a coal wholesaler and shipping company, in Strasbourg. In 1910 he became the company's managing director. When Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (GBAG) took over the majority in Raab Karcher in 1914 , he became a member of the GBAG supervisory board. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as Rittmeister of the Reserve in Hussar Regiment No. 9 at the headquarters of the 30th Infantry Division. As an award he received the Iron Cross II. And I. Class. In 1918 he was appointed Reich Coal Commissioner. In 1919, Huber took over the management of Raab Karcher again, now based in Karlsruhe. On March 9, 1926, he was delegated by the supervisory board to the board of GBAG. On October 27, 1926, he was appointed general director and chairman of the board, leaving the supervisory board. In 1930 he returned to the board of directors, of which he was a member until his death in 1957. At the same time, Huber became chairman of the advisory board of Raab Karcher GmbH in 1926, which appointed him honorary chairman in 1948. Under his aegis, the company developed into one of the most important German trading and shipping companies. After the Second World War, Huber was interned for a year. He is one of the representatives of the syndicate concept in the distribution of coal and steel products.

Further memberships in supervisory bodies of companies, trade associations and companies

Supervisory bodies of companies

• Chairman of the Advisory Board of Kohlenkontor Weyhenmeyer & Co., Mannheim
• 2nd Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate , Essen
• Supervisory board and other bodies of the United Steel Works , Düsseldorf
• Supervisory board of AG Charlottenhütte , Berlin
• Supervisory Board of the Böhler & Co. AG Brothers , Stahlwerke, Berlin-Vienna
• Board of Directors of Gebrüder Böhler & Co. AG, Edelstahlwerke
• Supervisory board of Nordstern Alba Lebensversicherung AG , Berlin
• Advisory board of the Westphalian coal sales company Vollrath, Weck & Co., Berlin
• Business and finance committee of the Gesellschaft für Teerverwertung mbH, Duisburg-Meiderich
• Business committee of Benzo-Verband GmbH, Bochum
• Advisory board of the sales association of Forsterzeugnisse GmbH
• Supervisory board of Forstbetriebs- und Sandverwertungs-AG Haard, Essen
• Supervisory board of Kaiserhof Hotel GmbH
• Supervisory board of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Baukasse-AG, Essen

Business associations

• Board member of the association for the protection of the common economic interests in Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf
• Board of Directors of the Association for Safeguarding Rhine Shipping Interests e. V., Duisburg
• Board member of the Southwest German Coal Industry Association
• Committee of the South German Coal Industry Association V.
• Essen Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Advisory board of the Steenkolen trade association, Utrecht

Societies

• Board of Trustees of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research , Mülheim an der Ruhr
• Administrative committee of the Deutsches Museum , Munich
• Scientific Institute of Alsace-Lorraine at the University of Frankfurt

literature

• Huber, Bruno, Franz, Wilhelm, Ernst, Willi. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , pp. 810–811.
• Barbara Gerstein:  Huber, Willi. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 699 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 102/185