Fritz Gummert
Fritz Gummert (born June 15, 1895 in Essen , † August 27, 1963 in Düsseldorf ) was a German industrialist.
Life
Fritz Gummert was the son of the gynecologist Ludwig Gummert. He attended the Helmholtz grammar school in Essen and studied at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Breslau and the Universität Leipzig . In 1921 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . He was a member of the Corps Borussia Tübingen (FM, x), Saxonia Bonn (x) and Marcomannia Breslau . He took part in the First World War as a lieutenant in the reserve .
Gummert began his professional career with an apprenticeship at Credit-Anstalt in Essen , where he became an assistant director and, in 1923, an authorized representative. In 1926 he joined the newly founded corporation for coal utilization , later Ruhrgas AG . There he was initially authorized representative, from 1927 authorized signatory , 1934 deputy and from November 1948 full board member and 1958 spokesman for the board. He thus played a decisive role in the development of Ruhrgas AG into the largest German long-distance gas company. Gummert was also chairman of the supervisory board of Steinkohlengas AG in Dorsten , Ofag-Ofenbau AG in Düsseldorf , deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Chemische Werke Hüls , member of the supervisory board of Rhenag and Dresdner Bank and other companies. In addition, he was treasurer of the Donors' Association for German Science , which he co-founded in 1949 , a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society, and was involved in other scientific funding agencies. He himself carried out research in the field of carbon biology and founded the Carbon Biological Research Institute in Bredeney in 1946 . Gummert's house at Meisenburgstrasse 129 in Bredeney served as the “association headquarters ” of the Coburg Convent from the Second World War until the mid-1950s .
On December 31, 1960, Gummert retired. He is buried in the family grave at the Bredeney cemetery in Essen.
Honors
- Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class
- Repeat clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd class, 1939
- War Merit Cross (1939) 1st class
- Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1955)
- Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Berlin
- Honorary member of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
- Honorary citizen of the Westphalian Wilhelms University
- Dr. med. hc from the University of Giessen (1957)
literature
- Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
- Dr. Fritz Gummert † . Deutsche Corps-Zeitung, 64 (1965), p. 236.
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Gummert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fritz Gummert (Historical Portal Essen) (with picture)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation: Church construction in the Middle Ages from the standpoint of economic history .
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 21/405; 141/488; 96/261
- ↑ Ferdinand Ernst Nord: Coburger Convent 1951–1976 (= Historia Academica, Volume 15), series of publications by the Student History Association of the Coburg Convent, o. O. 1976, p. 20.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gummert, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrial manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1963 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |