Erich Tgahrt

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Erich Johann Heinrich Tgahrt (born July 17, 1882 in Marienwerder , † February 26, 1945 in Dortmund ) was a German industrialist .

Life

Architectural decoration with the emblem of the company Krupp on which, according to the entrepreneur Georg von Cölln designated building from today parliament of Lower Saxony is used

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 .

Tghart's place of activity from 1912: The - listed Georg-von-Cölln-Haus in Hanover in the center of the old town opposite the main entrance of the Marktkirche

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

Individual evidence

  1. Erich Tgahrt in the German biography
  2. 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
  3. ^ 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.
  4. Weltkunst Vol. 67, p. 499; limited preview in Google Book search