Ernst Flemming

Ernst Flemming (born August 26, 1870 in Cologne , † January 25, 1955 in Recklinghausen ) was a German mining official.

Life

Flemming was a son of the factory owner Hugo Flemming in Cologne-Kalk and Anna, geb. Nicolai from Calbe (Saale) , who came from a family of cloth manufacturers. He attended elementary school and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne, where he passed the Abitur at Easter 1889. Then he practically worked for a year in the Ruhr coal mining industry. Flemming studied the mountain subject in Jena , Heidelberg and Berlin . In Jena he became a member of the Corps Thuringia , in Heidelberg of the Corps Rhenania . In 1895 he became a mountain trainee, in 1899 a mountain assessor. After study trips through England and the United States, he joined the mining district service in Herne and Dortmund in 1900 as an unskilled worker, and from 1902 he was employed in the Saarbrücken mining at the Camphausen state coal mine . In 1903 he became a mining inspector, in 1906 a deputy, and in 1907 a full member of the Saarbrücken mining directorate and a member of the board of Section I of the Knappschafts Berufsgenossenschaft. After being appointed Bergrat (1911), Flemming was a laborer and lecturer in the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry from 1915. In 1921 he became secret upper mountain ridge, on October 1, 1928 chief miner and ministerial director. He retired in 1933.

Flemming was chairman of the supervisory board of the mining company Hibernia and Bergwerks AG Recklinghausen, deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the Preußische Bergwerks- und Hütten AG (Berlin) and the Mannheimer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft (Mannheim) as well as a member of the supervisory board of the Rhein- und See-Schiffahrts-Gesellschaft (Cologne). He was a deputy member of the Reichsrat .

Awards

• Red Eagle Order 4th class
• Iron Cross 2nd class on a white and black ribbon
• Cross of Merit for War Aid

literature

• 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. 625.
• 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. 455.