Frankel Steel

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Frankel Steel was a Canadian scrap metal dealer.

history

Founding family

Leo Frankel (January 1, 1864 in Biblis –1933) was the eldest son of Gottschall (1832–1918) and Mina Fränkel (1831–1921), who had married on January 31, 1863. After high school he went as a 17-year-old from Biblis to Canada, where he arrived on board the Weser on November 8, 1880 in New York City. While working as an office clerk for Dominion Iron & Metal Co. in Toronto , he started his own scrap metal business on the corner of Wellington and York Streets, initially 3000 sq.ft. grew a hundredfold. In 1886 he founded the Frankel Brothers company . All of his siblings had followed to Canada by around 1900. On July 2, 1890, he married Helena Mayer of New York City, with whom he had three sons. From 1908 the family lived at Gooderham House, 504 Jarvis St., Toronto. His brother Maurice and wife Ruth lived at 120 Isabella Street with children Ivan and Leo. Leo served as President of the Toronto Hebrew Congregation Holy Blossom and, from 1908, as Vice President of the Toronto Hebrew Benevolent Society. He enjoyed motor sports, bowling and fishing.

Frankel Brothers traded in non-ferrous metal and steel and produced white metal alloys. They operated a smelter on Eastern Avenue, the department store of the late John Hallam (1833–1900), a branch in Montreal and agencies in New York.

Leo was also President of the National Electric Heating Company in Galt (now part of Cambridge, Ontario) , which Asher Pritzker had founded in 1907 to initially offer electrical office heating, but which soon produced a variety of electrical devices such as the Dictaphone . With the Edison Con. In 1913 they started a lawsuit to power Manhattan.

Leo's son, Egmont L. Frankel (1892–1964) attended the Model School and Upper Canada College before he went to the University of Toronto , which he graduated as chem. Process engineer graduated. He has been named chairman of the Waste Material Dealers Association (Metals Division). In 1922 he became general manager at Frankel Brothers . In 1925 he married Ruth Hartman from Chicago. With his younger brother Roy H. Frankel (1896 -) he rose to President and Secretary of Frankel Brothers . He was a co-founder of Oakdale Golf Club and the only Canadian to become President of the American Society of Secondary Materials. He also served as President of the Toronto General Hospital Building Fund, the Canadian Jewish Congress, and Vice President of the United Jewish Appeal.

Entry into the construction business

To get into the construction business, they hired John Louis "Jack" Kellermann (1911 - August 1965) in 1931, who had previously worked for the McClintic-Marshall Company in Pottstown and Buffalo. After attending the Central Technical School in Toronto, Kellermann had learned civil engineering from a German émigré, whom he taught English, using German textbooks, and passed his civil engineering exam in 1928.

The company eventually became Frankel Steel Construction Ltd. renamed. Kellermann became Director of the Steel Division in 1953 and General Manager in 1961. He also served as director of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction , the Toronto Construction Association and the Canadian Welding Bureau for twenty years . As chairman of a joint venture partnership with Dominion Bridge Co. Ltd. and Frankel Structural Steel Ltd. Kellermann directed the construction of the Toronto Dominion Center . After Kellermann died of cancer, the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction set up a scholarship in Jack's name with donations from friends, and the University of Toronto established the JL Kellermann Graduate Fellowship .

Eric L. Hartley, originally from Liverpool and became Vice President in 1964, was elected President in 1965. In 1967 they were involved in the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower . In the early 1970s they built the Stelco Tower in Hamilton. Between 1968 and 1975 Geoffrey James Jackson rose from Vice President to President.

When they built the steel frame for the 52-story headquarters of the Morgan Guaranty Trust (JP Morgan & Co.) after a hundred years of existence, they couldn't find a buyer.

Other structures

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61815545
  3. ↑ http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/biblis_synagoge.htm
  4. ^ Who's who and why ; International Press, 1914, p. 164
  5. ↑ http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/frankel/27/ ( Memento from March 17, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ http://search.ontariojewisharchives.org/Permalink/descriptions276601
  7. ↑ http://search.ontariojewisharchives.org/Permalink/descriptions276723
  8. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/onasill/8470712691
  9. ↑ http://www.jta.org/1933/08/11/archive/leo-frankel
  10. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19201217&id=bzIjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iYEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5867,2276955&hl=de
  11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.multiculturalcanada.ca
  12. ↑ https://issuu.com/civmin/docs/civilian_december_2013_-_web
  13. ↑ https://structurae.net/companies/frankel-steel-construction
  14. ↑ http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/welding-steel-for-the-skeleton-of-manhattans-newest-office-news-photo/499317465