Hugo Henckel von Donnersmarck

Hugo Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck ( born April 26, 1811 in Siemianowice, Upper Silesia, † October 4, 1890 in Vienna ) was a German -Austrian entrepreneur.

When he age of 21 in 1832 took over his father's possessions in Bytom / Upper Silesia, his skill for agriculture and livestock farming and heavy industry he soon fell out. So he built in Laurahütte the first puddling and rolling steel mill on German soil. In 1846 he also took over the possessions of the Henckel von Donnersmarck family in Carinthia, especially around Wolfsberg and Bad St. Leonhard in the Lavant Valley. Here he reorganized the steel industry and moved them from Frantschach - Sankt Gertraud in the district Wolfsberg to Zeltweg in Styria, where he also erected shortly thereafter puddling and rolling steel mill. In 1871, a large part of its mining- industrial enterprises in Upper Silesia became part of the United King - stock company and Laurahütte. To compensate for the loss of the steel industry in the municipality Frantschach, he set up a 1881/82 a soda pulp and paper mill, which today still exists under the name of Mondi Packaging Frantschach GmbH and the largest employer in the community Frantschach is.

Also worthy He is credited to the town of Wolfsberg, where he over the city, visible from afar Schloss Wolfsberg acquired mid-19th century, which he did renew in neo-Gothic Tudor style. Another of his still existing legacies is the Palais Henckel von Donnersmarck in Vienna, which was built in 1872 as a gift for his second wife Laura. After her death it was sold and is currently training with the Palais Leitenberg a part of the Radisson SAS Palais Hotel.