Carl Fincken

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Carl Clemens August Fincken (born November 3, 1876 in Aachen , † June 25, 1936 in Duisburg ) was a German engineer and publisher.

Life

Born as the son of the Aachen scratch manufacturer Johann Fincken, Carl Fincken attended secondary school in Aachen up to the prima level. He then moved to the Aachen mechanical engineering school for two years and then studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen for four semesters . In 1898 he became a member of the Academic Association Markomannia , later the Corps Marko-Guestphalia Aachen . In October 1899 he became a designer for rolling mill construction at Duisburger Maschinenbau AG . In 1905 he became a self-employed civil engineer and represented various machine tools. In October 1920 he became the general representative of the Carl Lange heirs as owner of the company Carl Lange Verlag . At the beginning of 1925 he became the sole managing partner of the publishing house, in which the Duisburger Generalanzeiger , the Hamborner Generalanzeiger and the Oberhausener Generalanzeiger appeared.

Fincken was a member of the supervisory board of Südfilm AG as well as a long-standing member of the board of directors of the Rhein und Ruhr Automobile Club and the Association of West German Automobile Clubs in the Automobile Club of Germany . He was married to Ella Thyssen. The marriage produced a daughter.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Steel and iron: Journal for the German ironworks . Volume 56, No. 27 (1936), p. 784.
  2. ↑ K. Rosenbach, H. Ortwig , C. Vogel: History of the Corps Marko-Guestphalia at RWTH Aachen University 1871 to 2001 , Aachen 2003, p. 271 ISBN 3-00-011065-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Fincken, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fincken, Carl Clemens August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1936
Place of death Duisburg