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<\/p>\nThis article is not really to Alfred H\u00e4nn\u2019s liking. The 65-year-old does not want anyone singing his praises. That is easier said than done when it comes to a person who has clocked up 50 successful years in one company, not to mention three chil\u00addren, as well as numerous hobbies and volun\u00adtary activ\u00adi\u00adties. \u201cEveryone with a goal in sight can manage that. And the 50 years simply came about because I was able to live my career at Uhlmann as I had imag\u00adined it\u201d, says H\u00e4nn.<\/p>\n
Even as a young boy in his home town of Burgrieden, he found it fasci\u00adnating that \u201cpushing a switch some\u00adwhere turns on a light\u201d. Good that his uncle had an elec\u00adtrical shop. And even better that H\u00e4nn gained one of the two avail\u00adable elec\u00adtri\u00adcian appren\u00adtice\u00adships. \u201cThe compe\u00adti\u00adtion was high, which made the joy of being accepted even greater\u201d, is how H\u00e4nn recalls the year 1970.<\/p>\n
Barely 15 years, old on September 1 of that year he embarked on a career at Uhlmann, which culmi\u00adnated in heading elec\u00adtrical assembly and ended with entry into partial retire\u00adment in 2020. That is the factual, extremely abbre\u00advi\u00adated version of Alfred H\u00e4nn\u2019s career. What made it special calls for a few more lines \u2013 he has to bear with us.<\/p>\n
There were the assembly visits, for instance. There is no conti\u00adnent on which H\u00e4nn would not have managed to get an Uhlmann machine running. His specialty: trou\u00adbleshooting. It could happen that he trav\u00adeled to South Africa, only to find and resolve the problem on the machine within ten minutes.<\/p>\n
However, H\u00e4nn often recalls this trip for another reason. An uncle of his father was a cler\u00adgyman near Johan\u00adnes\u00adburg. When H\u00e4nn appeared on his doorstep, his cigar liter\u00adally dropped out of his hand. A short time later, it was H\u00e4nn who was aston\u00adished. The great uncle had a whole box of photos under the bed, which he had taken during home visits to Burgrieden. They were of young Alfred and his siblings. \u201cOur family didn\u2019t have a camera and I had seldom seen photos of myself. That was wonderful\u201d, explains H\u00e4nn. Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnately, he does not know what happened to the photos after the death of his great uncle.<\/p>\n
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\nQuality and service \u2013 that was always the motto.<\/p>\n
Alfred H\u00e4nn<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
He also left his mark in South America. While on an assembly job in Buenos Aires, a local elec\u00adtri\u00adcian colleague took him on the Rio de la Plata one weekend. They trav\u00adeled in a small boat to an isle, on which one man lived \u2013 who greeted H\u00e4nn in best Hamburg German.<\/p>\n
It turned out that the island resi\u00addent had trav\u00adeled to Argentina in 1940 as a stow\u00adaway, settled on the island, and had a Christmas tree plan\u00adta\u00adtion there. \u201cWe recounted our life stories and exchanged letters for years.\u201d A friend\u00adship that bore fruit because H\u00e4nn sent the expa\u00adtriate German Christmas tree seeds from then on.<\/p>\n
One home, two mottos<\/h3>\n
Despite the plea\u00adsur\u00adable expe\u00adri\u00adence and encoun\u00adters, the assembly trips were no cake\u00adwalks. When the phone range at 2pm, because a machine in France, for example, was causing prob\u00adlems, it was normal for H\u00e4nn to be on his way at 3pm. \u201cQuality and service \u2013 that was always the motto\u201d, says H\u00e4nn, who strived to be among the first in the morning and expe\u00adri\u00adenced many a sleep\u00adless night caused by trou\u00adbleshooting alerts.<\/p>\n
That he never\u00adthe\u00adless stuck to the job for all those years is firstly due to trav\u00adeling itself. It taught him to take a more relaxed view of things. But the return home also played a role. As much as he liked to travel, he never consid\u00adered staying, not even in Australia, which he was partic\u00adu\u00adlarly taken with. The home ties were too strong. Both parents came from Burgrieden, his wife as well, and H\u00e4nn is active there in the fire depart\u00adment, the shooting club, and with his clar\u00adinet in the music society. There he goes into the woods every Sunday, grows spelt wheat for self\u00admade bread, and main\u00adtains his classic trac\u00adtors.<\/p>\n
Never did he think about leaving Uhlmann \u2013 although some suit\u00adable offers were made. Instead, he made sure that machine and company elec\u00adtrical systems were always up to latest tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adical stan\u00addards. The company\u2019s combined heat and power plant, for example, is also cred\u00adited to H\u00e4nn. It covers the heating needs and 80 percent of the elec\u00adtricity required by the head\u00adquar\u00adters in Laupheim. All of this does not come by chance, but is based on Alfred H\u00e4nn\u2019s second motto, which he has lived up to over the entire 50 years: \u201cIf the company is doing well, I also feel fine.\u201d And (some words of praise must be permitted, Mr. H\u00e4nn): What good fortune for Uhlmann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Uhlmann is proud of 53 persons cele\u00adbrating an anniver\u00adsary, who have helped drive our company forward for 10, 25, or 40 years. One employee stands out in partic\u00adular: Alfred H\u00e4nn has been on board for 50 years \u2013 longer than anyone before him. There is a reason for that. [\u2026]<\/p>\n