Berthold Körting (businessman)

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Berthold Körting (* July 7, 1839 in Hanover ; † April 6, 1919 there ) was a German businessman, machine manufacturer, gas technician, chairman of the supervisory board and secret councilor .

Life

family

Berthold Körting was a member of the Körting family, documented since 1650, and was born in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover . He was the son of the first director of the Hanoverian gas works Friedrich Ernst Körting (1803–82), and Sophie (1802–1869), daughter of the court cabinet maker Joh. Heinrich Meyer in Hanover and Catharine Sophie Amalie Corneils. He was a brother of the later gas works director Leonhard Körting and the engineer and manufacturer Ernst Körting .

Career

In the first year of the founding of the German Empire , Berthold founded the Körting brothers together with his brother Ernst , which mainly produced injectors and "steam jet and water jet pumps for vacuum generation and for conveying gases and liquids as well as jet condensers". While Ernst Körting was responsible for the technical area as an engineer, Berthold Körting managed the company, which built what was then the Körtingsdorf settlement near Bornum in 1890 , in the commercial area with great success.

Berthold Körting ran a very effective advertisement for the products and innovations of his company for the time. He later took over the post of chairman of the supervisory board of the company that had been converted into a stock corporation and was appointed to the secret council of commerce.

On November 30, 1887, "[...] Wilhelm Peter Berding , Eduard and Ernst Meyer, Berthold Körting and Messrs. Königswarter, Breul, Jänecke, Prinzhorn and Schwarz" were the founders of the Hannover-Linden Manufacturers' Association, which later became the Industry Club Hanover , which, according to the address book of the royal residence city of Hanover from 1888, aimed to "[...] strengthen the relationship of trust between employers and workers" and in which Körting was one of the board members .

Körting shot Africa as wild animals in the tropics , which he exhibited as his trophy collection at the 27th traveling exhibition of the German Colonial Society at the colonial economic exhibition that opened in Hanover on June 18, 1914 . The collection also included the “ self - cocking double rifles ” by the court rifle maker Heinrich Scherping, which were used by Körting to kill game .

Fonts

  • Hunts on the Upper Nile. Diary , Munich; Leipzig: Georg Müller, 1914; Digitized via Google books

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biographie (in Gothic script ), Vol. 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, p. 205.

Archival material

Archives by and about Berthold Körting can be found, for example

  • as "presumably" addressed to Körting and dated November 20, 1915 at the time of the First World War , handwritten letter from the Anglo-Egyptian general and governor of Austrian origin and explorer Rudolf Carl von Slatin with letterhead from the "Welfare Committee of the Red Cross for Prisoners of War" ; Berlin State Library Manuscript Department; Darmstaedter Collection, signature: Collection Darmstaedter Afrika 1874: Slatin, Rudolf Karl von, sheet 1-2

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ However, the library (see there) names the date of birth “6. July"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Körting, Ernst. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 205.
  2. ↑ oV : Körting, Berthold in the database Niedersächsische personalities (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxon State Library [no date], as last accessed on May 24, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c Compare the information in the German biography
  4. ^ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß:  Körting, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 396-399 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ oV : 1887–1889 on the industrieclub-hannover.de page , last accessed on May 24, 2017
  6. ↑ Compare copy of the address book from 1888, section Abth. II, clubs, p. 123; Dieter Tasch (red. Ed.): From the factory owners' association to the industry club. A Century of Hanoverian Economy 1887 1987 , ed. from Industrie-Club Hannover eV on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the association in October 1987, 1987, p. 12.
  7. ^ The colonial economic exhibition in Hanover , in: Deutsche Kolonialzeitung . Organ of the German Colonial Society , Volume 31, Issue No. 26 of June 27, 1914, p. 426; Digitized via the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  8. ↑ Compare the information from the Kalliope network
personal data
SURNAME Körting, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, machine manufacturer, gas technician, chairman of the supervisory board and secret councilor of commerce
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1919
Place of death Hanover