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Aimé-Auguste Hahn ([[1821]]-[[1905]]) was a co-founder of [[Hahn Frères]] in [[Le Landeron]] with his brother [[Charles-Alfred Hahn]].

==Biography==

Aimé-Auguste Hahn was born on August 30, [[1821]] in [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]]. His father was apparently also named Aimé-Auguste Hahn.

David-Henri Tissot-Vougeux worked with him under the name Hahn et Tissot in La Chaux-de-Fonds, but this business was dissolved on December 21, [[1844]].

On December 31, [[1844]], Aimé-Auguste Hahn founded the firm of [[Hahn Frères]] with his brother [[Charles-Alfred Hahn]]. The company was established for the manufacture and trade of watches. The firm was located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, though it would famously open a factory for the production of [[ebauche]]s in [[Le Landeron]] in [[1875]]. This was the same year that [[Charles-Alfred Hahn]] died, though his son, also named [[Charles Hahn]], was quick to step into the business.

The company was reorganized as Hahn Frères et Cie on January 19, [[1883]]. In [[1889]] the partnership was dissolved and reformed with just [[Charles Hahn]] the younger and his sisters Laure Reutter and and Julie Hahn as members, with Aimé-Auguste reduced to representative. Laure Reutter retired in [[1898]] but the young Charles continued to work with his uncle until his death in [[1905]].

Hahn was a member of the board of [[Union Horlogere]] in the 1860s, working with [[Zelime Perret]] and [[Auguste Robert-Stanfler]]. [[Edouard Robert]] was manager of the company.

He was very active politically, known as one of the last survivors of the so-called "Pierre-Henri Sandoz café". In [[1848]] he was part of the Republican movement, becoming one of the patriots who stormed the castle of Neuchâtel in [[1856]]. he was elected municipal councilor in La Chaux-de-Fonds in [[1857]] and served through [[1861]]. In [[1860]], he joined the Grand Council and was a member of it for many years.

Aimé-Auguste Hahn died on March 31, [[1905]] at the age of 84.

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