Carl Küttner

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Carl Küttner

Carl Küttner (born October 21, 1902 in Saint Petersburg , † November 5, 1986 in Essen ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur.

Life

After graduating from high school in Frankfurt am Main, Küttner studied engineering at the Technical University in Breslau . He was reciprocated on February 4, 1923 in the Corps Borussia Breslau , for which he was committed all his life. After graduating with a degree in engineering , he spent several years in the United States for further training . He found his first job at Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen. In 1936 he was at the RWTH Aachen to Dr.-Ing. PhD.

Later, Küttner moved to Friedrich Flick's group in Berlin, where he succeeded Hans Hahl as the chief financial officer at Mittelstahl under the management board of Odilo Burkart at the Flick headquarters at the end of 1941 . Immediately beforehand, Küttner had been commissioned by the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories to write a comprehensive report on the Ukrainian steel industry. Through Küttner's commitment, Flick gained access to this information. Subsequently, Küttner von Flick was loaned out to the state economic administration, including the economic staff east , as a war administrative councilor . So he worked for Flick on two sides in order to enforce his industrial expansion interests also in the war-occupied areas. In 1948 he founded Carl Küttner GmbH & Co KG in Essen, which he managed as co-owner and managing director until his death. From this engineering company a global group of companies developed that builds turnkey plants for ironworks , foundries , recycling , non-ferrous metal and waste incineration .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 17/789
  2. Dissertation: The iron-chromium-chromium carbide Cr7 C3 cementite system
  3. ^ Küttner GmbH & Co KG and Küttner Automation GmbH