Bodo Karcher

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Bodo Karcher

Bodo Karcher (born February 21, 1886 in Beckingen , † April 26, 1953 in Heidelberg) was a German screw manufacturer.

Life

Bodo Karcher's parents were the secret councilor Friedrich Berhanrd "Fritz" Karcher, co-owner of a screw and small iron factory in Beckingen, and Anna Clara Adelheit Schmidtborn. After graduating from the humanistic Ludwigsgymnasium (Saarbrücken) he studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart and the Munich Technical Engineering . In 1906 he was reciprocated in the Corps Suevia Munich . When he was inactive , he moved to the TH Charlottenburg . He completed his studies as a Dipl.-Ing. from. He took part in the First World War as a first lieutenant in the reserve in the Uhlan regiment “Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden” (Rheinisches) No. 7 . In 1918 he became the sole managing director and partner in his father's company, Fr. Karcher, C. Roth & Cie. GmbH in Beckingen, a special factory for black screws. After the end of the war and the separation of the Saar area , he founded the Süddeutsche screw factory in Waiblingen in 1921 . He became its managing director and partner.

Karcher was a member of the Saarland Chamber of Commerce and Industry , 1933-1937 its president. He campaigned for the preservation of self-government against interventions by the government commission of the League of Nations and in 1935 prepared the economic reintegration of the Saar region into the German Reich. In 1937, he was removed from his position by the Reich Commissioner for the Reintegration of the Saarland, Josef Bürckel .

Karcher was also a member of the main board and the specialist group committee of the Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists and a member of the supervisory board of Gebr. Hofer AG in Saarbrücken, the Merzig brewery and Saar Versicherungs-AG in the Gerling group.

Grave slab on the Reihersberg

He rebuilt the plant in Beckingen, which was destroyed in the Second World War, in Germany after the war . His nephew Fritz-Henning Karcher led the company in the agreement between the governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the Saar Statute .

Awards

  • Iron Cross II. And I. Class in the First World War
  • Namesake of Bodo-Karcher-Strasse in Waiblingen

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 115/1287.
personal data
SURNAME Karcher, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screw manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Beckingen
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1953
Place of death Beckingen