Hansohn, Louis Anton, gen. Ludwig

Engineer

born: 13.03.1879 in Wiesbaden

died: 20.01.1929 in Wiesbaden

Hansohn came from a politically active family of craftsmen in Wiesbaden. After completing his studies, he was primarily involved in organizing the craftsmen's community in the city district and administrative district of Wiesbaden. Hansohn studied at the Technical University in Darmstadt and subsequently took over the Lahmeyer electrical installation business in Wiesbaden in 1906. In 1908 he married his wife Katharina, daughter of the Wiesbaden sculptor Ernst Kneisel. After the First World War (reserve officer on the Western Front), Hansohn began to reorganize the Wiesbaden craftsmen's community.

In place of the old municipal trade association, he created the more tightly organized city association for crafts and trades, which he took over in 1921. In the same year, he was appointed to the management of the Wiesbaden Chamber of Crafts and Trades and in 1924 was elected Deputy President of the Nassau Trade Association. In 1926, he was elected as a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP) to the Nassau local parliament. Here he represented the interests of the Wiesbaden district until 1928. For the state parliament, he served on the trade tax committee, the vocational school deputation, the administrative board of the craftsmen's and arts and crafts school and the advisory board of the Nassauische Landesbank.