Fritz Harders
Friedrich "Fritz" Harders (born April 13, 1909 in Mannheim ; † August 31, 1973 in Dortmund ) was a German industrialist and manager .
Life
Fritz Harders was born the son of a senior engineer. He first attended the public school and the grammar school in Mannheim, then the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig and finally the municipal grammar school in Dortmund, where he passed the Abitur in April 1927. He then studied chemistry, mathematics, mineralogy and physics at the universities in Halle and Münster until 1933 . In 1930 he passed the first and in 1931 the second chemical association examination (graduate engineer). In January 1936 he was the mineralogical and petrographic Institute of the University of Münster Dr. phil. PhD (Dissertation: About the rocks of the Löwenburg ). Further studies in iron and steel engineering took him to the Clausthal mining academy , where he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. dissertated.
Harders started his career at the test laboratory of the United Aluminum Works AG in Töging am Inn , where he worked for a short time. From 1933 to 1935 he worked in the silicate-chemical and refractory department of the research institute of Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG in Düsseldorf , from where he moved to Stoecker & Kunz, a factory for refractory products based in Cologne-Mülheim, as laboratory manager and assistant manager . In 1937 he returned to the United Steel Works and worked for the Coal and Iron Research Society in Dortmund until 1939.
During the Second World War , Harders worked as a production engineer and operations manager for the Hörder Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein . In 1945 he became plant director and a year later a member of the board. The Hörder Verein was merged into Dortmund-Hörder Hüttenunion AG in 1951 as part of the reorganization of the German iron and steel industry . Harders, who had belonged to the Steel Trustees Association from 1949 to 1952, became a board member in 1952 and rose to chairman of the board in 1962. In this role, he and Willy Ochel promoted the merger with Hoesch AG , which took place in 1966. At Hoesch, he also held the post of CEO from 1968. Here he was again involved in the amalgamation of joint stock companies and played a key role in the formation of the Estel Group when Hoesch merged with the Dutch steelworks Koninklijke Hoogovens in 1972 .
Harders remained chairman of the Hoesch and deputy chairman of the Estel board until his death. From 1969 to 1973 he was chairman of the steel institute VDEh . He also acted as President of the Dortmund Chamber of Commerce and Industry .
Fritz Harders was married to Ulla Taurke and had six children.
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition, Volume 4, KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25034-7 , p. 430.
- Herrmann AL Degener , Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? Volume 14. Arani, Berlin 1962, p. 516.
Web links
- Fritz Harders , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 41/1973 of October 1, 1973, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 13 at table . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1966, pp. 46-47 ( Online - Jan. 24, 1966 ).
- ↑ Merry- go-round of posts . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1968, p. 62 ( Online - Apr. 15, 1968 ).
- ^ Strike against Thyssen . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1969, p. 62 ( Online - Mar. 31, 1969 ).
- ↑ 150 years of the VDEh Steel Institute, a selection chronicle
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harders, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harders, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist and manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1973 |
| Place of death | Dortmund |