Erich Tgahrt
Erich Johann Heinrich Tgahrt (born July 17, 1882 in Marienwerder , † February 26, 1945 in Dortmund ) was a German industrialist .
Life
Erich Tgahrt was born in the West Prussian provincial town of Marienwerder in the early days of the German Empire . After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he graduated from the commercial school in Cologne in 1904 . In 1906 he became an authorized representative of Metallgesellschaft AG , based in Frankfurt am Main .
At the time of the German Empire in 1911, Tgahrt received the position of industrial clerk at the iron and steel-processing iron and steel works and mines Rheinhausen, which belonged to the Krupp empire, in the town of Rheinhausen, which was later incorporated into Duisburg .
In 1912 Erich Tgahrt took over the management of the Georg von Cölln ironware wholesaler in Hanover, which was owned by Krupp . Almost a decade later and after the First World War, the also active as a commercial judge and designated general director worked from 1921 to 1922 initially as Vice President of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce - the later Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hanover (IHK) - from the year of the peak of German hyperinflation in 1923 and then until 1926 as President of the Chamber of Commerce.
Also during the Weimar Republic , Tgahrt took over the management of the Neunkircher Eisenwerke in Saarland from 1926 .
For the period of National Socialism Erich went Tgahrt 1937 back to the Ruhr area , the Group's management of its headquarters in there Dortmund make Hoesch group responsible. In addition, Tgahrt was a member of various coal and steel processing joint stock companies .
Collection Erich Tghart
Erich Tgahrt was a collector of Japanese art , especially of the ukiyo-e genre . More than half a century after his death, part of his collection of Japanese woodcuts was posthumously auctioned on March 22, 1997 in an auction of the Klefisch art dealer in Cologne . The auction catalog can be found in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg .
Fonts
- Problems with the compulsory examination of ironworks , economic and social science dissertation from September 18, 1939 at the University of Cologne, Cologne: Orthen, 1939
literature
- Japanese woodblock prints. Collection Erich Tgahrt u. a. Possession. Kunsthandel Klefisch , catalog for the ukiyo-e auction on March 22, 1997 in Cologne, Kunsthandel-Klefisch-GmbH, Cologne 1997
Web links
- Erich Tgahrt in the German biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Tgahrt in the German biography
- ↑ a b c d e f Walther Killy (Ed.) Et al. : Dictionary of Germany Biography (in English), Vol. 9: Schmidt - Theyer . KG Saur, Munich 2005, p. 707; limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ Albert Lefèvre: Personal details . In the present: 100 years of Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1866–1966) Mission and fulfillment . bacco Verlag für Wirtschaftspublizistik Bartels, Wiesbaden 1966, pp. 237–265, here p. 239 f.
- ↑ Weltkunst Vol. 67, p. 499; limited preview in Google Book search
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SURNAME | Tgahrt, Erich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tgahrt, Erich Johann Heinrich (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1882 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Marienwerder |
DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1945 |
Place of death | Dortmund |