Ernst Stutz

Ernst Stutz (* 28. July 1868 in Marten ; † 22. August 1940 in Berlin ) was a German mining engineer and mining - Manager and in the First World War, Reich Commissioner for the coal distribution.

Life

As the son of the mining engineer and coking plant owner Ernst Stutz and his wife Maria Stutz geb. Müllensiefen from Crengeldanz he attended the secondary school in Lippstadt , in Witten and the Archigymnasium Soest . After graduating from high school, he first studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1890 he became active in the Corps Hansea Bonn . When he was inactive , he switched to the Bergakademie Berlin and the Technical University of Aachen . In 1893 he passed the first state examination at the Bonn Mining Authority and was appointed mountain referendar .

He then traveled to the USA for five months to study. He then worked as a trainee lawyer at the state mining administration in Saarbrücken , Upper Silesia , the Harz Mountains , in Dillenburg , Aachen , Halle (Saale), Witten and Dortmund. In 1897 he passed the second state examination and was appointed mountain assessor . Thereafter, from 1887 to 1898, commercial training took place at the Essen Credit Institute . From 1898 he worked again as a mountain assessor in Witten and Gelsenkirchen .

On March 1, 1898 he married in Dortmund Valesca Haller man , a subsidiary of the Dortmund ophthalmologist August Haller man and his wife Meta Haller man born Eulenberg . The marriage had six children.

As a commissioner for the Ruhr mining industry, he worked for the mining association from January 1, 1901 to March 31, 1903. From 1903 to the end of 1904 he went to Sulzbach / Saar , where he worked as a royal mining inspector . He was then employed until March 31, 1911 in Zabrze (Upper Silesia) as head of the fiscal trade office at the Royal Mining Directorate.

This was followed by a position as plant director of the Luisenthal mine in the area of ​​the Royal Mining Inspection II until June 15, 1915. From 1915 he took over the management of the War Coal Company in Berlin, where he was supposed to ensure the supply of raw materials for coal distribution during the First World War . This activity ended in 1923.

On June 22, 1917 he was appointed (as the successor to the Secret Oberbergrats Fuchs, who had taken up the newly created position on March 1, 1917) as Reich Commissioner for Coal Distribution , who carried out relevant tasks in the department of the Reich Economic Office . From October 1, 1919, he took over the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors in the Reich Coal Association . In January 1923, he was awarded Technical University Berlin , the honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing. E. h. ). From 1934 until his retirement in 1936 he was the Reich Commissioner for the Coal and Salt Monitoring Center. At that time he lived in Berlin-Grunewald in the house at Jagowstrasse 4.

Ranks

• Early 1905: Royal Mine Director
• January 1910: Royal mountain ridge
• April 1917: Oberbergrat
• July 1917: Secret mountain ridge

Awards (selection)

• Iron cross on a white ribbon, 2nd class
• Order of Merit of Saint Michael II Class
• Frederick Order II. Class

literature

• Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatic Publishing House , Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 .
• Cuno Horkenbach: The German Empire from 1918 to today. Berlin 1931.
• Herrmann AL Degener : Who is who? . Berlin 1935.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 11 , 305.