Carl Jaeger (Manager)

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Carl Jaeger (born January 16, 1874 in Wissen an der Sieg ; † April 23, 1932 in Hattingen an der Ruhr ) was a German ironworker and manager of the steel industry.

Life

Career

Carl Jaeger, son of the smeltery director Friedrich Jaeger, studied metallurgy at the Bergakademie Clausthal and the Bergakademie Berlin . In Clausthal he became a member of the Corps Borussia and Montania . After studying and doing military service with the Guard Rifle Battalion in Groß-Lichterfelde, he began his professional career in the steel industry at the Hoerder Verein as an assistant in Willem van Vloten's blast furnace . He then became a steelworks assistant and subsequently operations manager. In addition to the modernization of the enlargement of the existing Siemens-Martin steelworks, the construction of the Siemens-Martin-Stahlwerk II, which works with liquid feed and mixed gas, was his special achievement. In 1920 he was appointed technical director and smelter at the Henrichshütte in Hattingen , part of the Henschel & Sohn group . In addition to expanding the blast furnace, he introduced waste heat recovery and the dry extinguishing process in coke production. With the formation of Ruhrstahl AG, he became technical director and member of the board of the company belonging to the United Steelworks in 1930 .

Jaeger was a member of the supervisory board of the Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG, a member of the Bochum Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as well as a member of the general board and first deputy chairman of Section VII of the Smelting and Rolling Works Association. He was a member of the board of the Northwestern Group of the Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists, the Association of German Steel Mold Foundries and the Association of German Ironworkers and was a deputy member of the board of the Ruhrtalsperrenverein. He was also a member of the technical commission of the Heavy Plate Association. During the First World War , as a captain, he led a company in the 20th Reserve Jäger Battalion. After being wounded in the Carpathian Mountains in the winter of 1915, he was employed in the War Resource Department in Düsseldorf.

Jaeger was involved in local politics as an alderman in Hoerde and later in the Blankenheim office.

family

He was married to Elisabeth Uppenborn from Clausthal. They had three children, two daughters and a son.

literature

  • Jaeger, Carl. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 834.
  • Jaeger, Carl. 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. 1046.
  • Stahl und Eisen , Volume 52, Issue 21, May 26, 1932, p. 528. ( Online )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, pp. 75, 79.
personal data
SURNAME Jaeger, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ironworker and manager of the steel industry
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Knowledge (city)
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1932
Place of death Hattingen