Franz Hellberg

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Franz Hellberg (born December 29, 1894 in Hamburg , † March 30, 1970 in Cologne ) was a German entrepreneur in the lignite industry.

Life

Hellberg, the son of a hydraulic and civil engineering engineer, studied mining at the Clausthal Mining Academy from 1918 after participating in the First World War , where he became a member of the Corps Montania .

After practical work in lignite mining in Lower Lusatia and the Geiseltal , at the age of 38 he was appointed to the board of the Anhaltische Kohlenwerke and Werschen-Weißenfelser Braunkohlen AG . In addition, from 1940 he was a member of the board of directors of Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke . All three companies belonged to Friedrich Flick KG. There was a close relationship of trust between Hellberg and Friedrich Flick . After 1945 Hellberg expressly emphasized "that Flick had given him considerable freedom in managing the company".

After the Second World War, at his instigation and under his leadership, the four large lignite companies in the Rheinische Revier formed the entire company Rheinische Braunkohlenwerke AG . Hellberg pushed the development of the lower lying lignite deposits in the Rhenish Revier and ensured the systematic expansion of the lignite-based power plants. He was chairman of the German Brown Coal Industry Association (DEBRIV), which he founded in 1950, and later President of the Mining Association . In addition, Hellberg was appointed to the supervisory board of Braunkohle-Petrol AG ( West Berlin ) in 1952 .

literature

  • 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 history. Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1975, p. 108.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tim Schanetzky: Government entrepreneur . Henry J. Kaiser, Friedrich Flick and the economic situation in the USA and Germany. Wallstein Verlag, 2015, p. 185.
  2. ↑ From the company , Die Zeit of March 27, 1952, accessed on July 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Hellberg, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur in the lignite industry
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1970
Place of death Cologne