Adolf Dasbach

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Dasbach family grave in the Alt-Hürth cemetery
Memory of Adolf Dasbach

Adolf Dasbach (born May 29, 1887 in Brühl ; † July 30, 1961 ) was a German mining engineer or manager who was the manager of the Hürtherberg mine in Hürth .

Life

Dasbach was born in Brühl- Badorf as the son of Martin Dasbach, mining inspector at the Berggeist mine from 1891 onwards at the Donatus lignite mine . After attending grammar school in Brühl, he studied mining at the Bergakademien Clausthal and Berlin . Soon after his exams (1911) he took over the position of mine director of the Hürtherberg trade union in Hürth from April 1, 1919 after Gruben im Brühler area (1911 excavation of the Lukretia mine, 1915 Berggeist) . His skills as a mining engineer and his pioneering work in lignite mining earned him great recognition. He performed his greatest achievements as a pioneer in the recultivation of his charred pits long before this became a legal obligation. In his hometown of Hürth, he was involved in various ways in the church and cultural area and as the main sponsor of the football club WSV Victoria Hermülheim . From 1924 he sat for many years in the Hürth mayors' meeting and later on the local council . During this of his political career, he initially belonged to the DVP , after its self-dissolution in 1933 he joined the NSDAP . After the Second World War , he was re-elected to the local council for the CDU in 1948 . In 1952 he was one of the founders of the FDP local association . In the Heimatverein, now the Heimat- und Kulturverein, he was first chairman from the time it was founded in 1950, in which he played a major role, until his death on July 30, 1961.

The city of Hürth honored him by naming a street to the current local recreation area Hürtherberg after him. The pond created there by recultivation also bears the name Adolf-Dasbach-Weiher in his honor .

Individual evidence

  1. according to brief vita in Manfred Faust: History of the City of Hürth , ed. from Heimat und Kulturverein Hürth, Cologne, JP Bachem Verlag, 2009, p. 75
  2. § 62 biotopes in the Rhein-Erft district ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

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