Carl-Friedrich Böninger

Carl-Friedrich Böninger (born May 25, 1883 in Hagen ; † January 11, 1953 in Long Beach (Indiana) ) was a German manager of the ball bearing industry.

Life

Carl Friedrich Bönninger attended secondary school in Hagen. He then completed technical training at the higher mechanical engineering school in Hagen. From there he moved to the Technical University of Karlsruhe to study engineering and became a member of the Corps Alemannia there . After studying and doing his first practical work in machine works, smelting works and iron stone mines , he went to the USA for two years , where he worked in iron construction, railroad operations and gold and copper mines. When he returned to Germany, he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in the Guard Pioneer Battalion in Berlin , where he later also became a reserve officer.

In 1908 Böninger went to Arthur Koppel AG in Berlin, where he went through a trainee program for the South American export business. In 1909 he moved to the engineering office of Julius Pintsch AG in Düsseldorf , which sent him to Stockholm in 1912 as head of the technical department at Victor Berg , which at that time represented the companies Krupp , MAN , Mannesmann and the steelworks association in Sweden . In Sweden he married Maja Grönkvist, daughter of the Swedish industrialist Gustav Robert Grönkvist . On July 1, 1914, he took up a new position at Grönkvist Mekaniska Verkstads Aktiebolaget in Katrineholm , his father-in-law's company, but returned to Germany with the outbreak of World War I and served as a reserve officer in the Guard Pioneer Battalion and later as a leader the anti-aircraft searchlight division of the emperor's staff guard at the main headquarters. His last rank was Captain of the Reserve.

After the end of the war, Böninger returned to Sweden and took over a job in the sales organization of Aktiebolaget Svenska Kullagerfabriken (SKF) in Gothenburg , which had taken over his father-in-law's company in 1916. In 1920 he went to Germany as General Director of SKF-Norma GmbH and became its General Director when SKF-Norma AG was founded at the end of 1925. After the merger of SKF-Norma AG with the rolling bearing department of Fichtel & Sachs AG and Fries & Höpflinger AG , he became the first general director of Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG , based in Berlin, in September 1929 . At the beginning of the 1930s Böninger went to the USA, where he founded Gardex Inc. in Michigan City (Indiana) in 1934 , whose partner later became his eldest son, Carl-Olof (* 1918). Most recently he lived in Sweden again and was chairman of the supervisory board of Tegelbruks AB Walla Katrineholm in Katrineholm. He owned the Stjärnhovs estate and was a member of the Svensk opposition .

Awards

• Dr.-Ing. E. h.

literature

• Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 , p. 177.
• Böninger, Carl Friedrich. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 240.

Web links

• Stjärnhovs Säteri at www.bygdeband.se (with biographical information on Carl-Friedrich Böninger)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 226.