Ferdinand Raab (Manager)

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Ferdinand Raab as Clausthaler Montane, 1900

Ferdinand Raab (born May 24, 1878 in Hochheim am Main , † March 19, 1954 in Wiesbaden ) was a German industrial manager.

Life

Ferdinand Raab came from the family of Johann Christian Ludwig Raab (1800-1834), the founder of the Wetzlar ore mining , mine field owner with the Raab union , which had been associated with the Lahn mining industry for generations . He attended the Goetheschule Wetzlar and studied mining sciences at the Clausthal Mining Academy . There Raab became a member of the Corps Montania . After the diploma exam and temporary work in other mining branches, he came to lignite mining in the Cologne district in 1908 , later to the north-west Saxon mining area in Borna and in 1917 to Werschen-Weißenfelser Braunkohlen AG in Halle (Saale).

From 1924 Raab was general director and chairman of the board of Werschen-Weißenfelser Braunkohlen AG, Anhaltische Kohlenwerke (Halle) and Christoph-Friedrich AG (Halle) as well as chairman of the mining board of the Hohenzollernhall and Oskarssegen union. He was also a member of the supervisory board of Merseburger Überlandbahnen AG (Ammendorf) and the Central German Brown Coal Syndicate (Leipzig). At the Werschen-Weißenfelser Braunkohlen AG and the Anhaltische Kohlenwerke, Raab later also moved to the supervisory board.

At the age of 54 he retired in 1932 and died in Wiesbaden in 1954. Ferdinand Raab was buried in the Evangelical Cemetery in Wetzlar.

Awards

In 1926 Raab received an honorary doctorate from the Clausthal Mining Academy and was the owner of the Carl Schnabel commemorative coin from the Mining Academy.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , 10th edition, Berlin 1935, p. 1253
  • Hans Lünert, Dietrich Hoffmann: The charisma of the Bergakademie Clausthal using the example of the successes of former students . In: Clausthal University of Technology. For the bicentenary 1775–1975. I: The Bergakademie and its prehistory, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1975, p. 112.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1461.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Wenzel: German business leader. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, 1929, p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Raab, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hochheim am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1954
Place of death Wiesbaden