Adalbert Flaccus

Adalbert Fritz Otto Flaccus (born December 24, 1880 in Altenwald ; † August 21, 1955 in Düsseldorf ) was a German ironworker and manager of the German steel industry.

Life

Adalbert Flaccus studied metallurgy at the Bergakademie Freiberg . In 1901 he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Freiberg . In 1905 he completed his studies as a Dipl.-Ing. from. In 1906 he became a steelworks assistant at Hoesch in Dortmund. In 1913 he rose to the position of head of the steelworks at Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen. He took part in the First World War as a captain with the Freiberg hunters. After the end of the war he became operations director of Gutehoffnungshütte, then technical director of the Hörder Verein and the Phönix ironworks in Duisburg-Ruhrort, as well as a board member and deputy chairman of the board of Phönix AG for mining and smelting operations . With the founding of the United Steel Works in 1926, he became its director. He was initially responsible for production, cost management and research. Later he was responsible for the main group wire, strip steel and profiles as well as further processing in the East Westphalian plants.

Flaccus was a member of the supervisory board of the United Steelworks van der Zypen and Wissener Eisen-Hütten AG in Cologne-Deutz, the Schorch-Werke AG and the Stahlwerke Brüninghaus AG

He was a member of the board of directors of the Association of German Ironworkers and the board of the Northwestern Group of the Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists . He was a deputy board member of the Emschergenossenschaft .

In 1951 he received the ribbon of the Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen .

Awards

• Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class
• Royal Saxon Order of Albrecht 2nd class with swords and other high Saxon awards
• Dr.-Ing. E. h. from the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg

literature

• Flaccus, Adalbert. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 450.
• Adolf Berve, Herbert Dieter Nienhaus, Kurt Schröter, Gerhard Voigt, Karl Heinz Weber: Chronicle of the Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen, Part II - Corps Saxo-Borussia Freiberg i. Sa. 1842-1935 (1951) , main section II, pp. 254, 298 (short biography and biographical data)