Martin Essinck-Hawes

Martin Essinck-Hawes was an early industrialist and utopian socialist writer from Lourenne. He has been a major inspiration for the ideology of the Communist Party of Lourenne

He was born in 2301 in a family of rich Rildanorian merchants. At the age of 26, he began experimenting with the use of the most modern industrial machinery at the time to allow Lourennian agricultural products to be profitably exported. With the profits, he provided housing, health care, education and pensions for his laborers. In 2345 he founded a series of People's Banks that gave cheap loans to farmers. However, both the banks and his other companies seized activities after his death in 2365.

Essinck-Hawes was one of the first in Lourenne to support the idea of democratic councils running organizations.