Mining AG Lorraine
The Mining AG Lorraine was a company of the German mining industry , based in Hanover (1922-1931) and in Bochum .
The company emerged at the turn of the year 1920/1921 from the Lothringen trade union , which was founded in 1872 , the operating company of the Lothringen colliery in Bochum-Gerthe . The conversion to stock company was related to the expansion of the mining company to a mining company, which through equity investments and interest groups , companies such as the chemical plants Lorraine GmbH (Bochum), the Essen coal mines AG (Essen), the Henschel & Sohn AG (Kassel) the Hanomag (Hannover), the Westfalen Bank AG (Bochum) and Wintershall AG (Kassel) were connected. The driving forces behind this were the ambitious managers Otto Gehres and August Rosterg . Due to the occupation of the Ruhr , the company's headquarters were relocated to Hanover, the location of Hanomag, in 1922. It was not until the Great Depression in 1931 that the head office returned to Bochum to rationalize operations.
In addition to the Lorraine colliery, the mine also included the Erin colliery and the Graf Schwerin colliery in the Ruhr district . B. had given business connections through joint trades .
Since the end of 1956 the Eschweiler Bergwerkverein (EBV) has been the majority shareholder of Bergbau-AG Lothringen, the connection was regulated on January 1, 1957 by a tax group agreement. The EBV sold a number of participations and subsidiaries and shut down the Lorraine colliery in the course of the coal crisis in 1967.
The Mining History Documentation Center at the German Mining Museum in Bochum preserves an extensive archive of the Mining AG Lorraine.
literature
- Handbook of German Stock Companies , 48th edition 1943, Volume 5, pp. 4841–4845.
Web links
- Archives in the mining archive at the German Mining Museum at www.archive.nrw.de
- Early documents and newspaper articles about Bergbau-AG Lothringen in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .