August Simon

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August Simon (born January 30, 1862 in Klostermansfeld , † September 3, 1926 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German mine director who developed a new method for sinking shafts in floating mountains in lignite mining.

Life

August Simon came from a miner's family in the Prussian Mansfelder Seekreis . As a schoolboy he got to know copper slate mining in his home country. On April 1, 1877, he drove his first shift in the 81st light shaft not far from his hometown. So it was inevitable that he too took up the traditional profession of miner . He went to the Eisleben mountain school in 1881. After successfully completing it, he did his military service with the pioneer battalion No. 4 in Magdeburg . Then he got a job as a steiger at the Douglasschen brown coal mine Alfred near Tornitz . In 1889 he became director of the union mine Neue Hoffnung near Pommelte for nine years . There, as an innovative mountain school graduate, he developed a new method of shaft sinking , in which he used firmly connected planks (sheet pile walls) in order to achieve a stronger hold in floating mountains. This method was named after him Simon's sheet pile wall method .

In 1897 August Simon became mine director of the Burbach union. In the same year, the Marie shaft in Beendorf , which later became legendary, was sunk using his method. August Simon took up his office here. At home, however, he settled in Helmstedt . There he became a city councilor in 1913 and remained in office as such until 1921.

Bad health forced him to slow down. He died in the late summer of 1926 while taking a spa stay in Bad Nauheim.

literature

  • Dr. Karau: Mine director Simon † . In: Kali. Journal for Extraction, Processing and Utilization of Kalisalta No. 20 from October 15, 1926.
  • Hans Raeck: History of the Eisleber Bergschule 1798–1928 , Eisleben 1928, p. 127
  • Wolfgang Gotte : The sinking of the Marie shaft . In: Knappenverein Oberes Allertal (Ed.): 100 Years of the Marie Shaft - Salt Mining in Upper Allertal , Beendorf 1997, p. 31.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Karau: Mine director Simon † . In: Kali. Journal for Extraction, Processing and Utilization of Kalisalta No. 20 from October 15, 1926.
personal data
SURNAME Simon, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mine director
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Klostermansfeld
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1926
Place of death Bad Nauheim