Fritz Spruth

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Fritz Spruth (born February 4, 1895 in Siegen , † August 13, 1991 in Recklinghausen ) was a German mine director and author .

Life

From 1919 Spruth was in coal mining in the Upper Mountain District located Wroclaw Waldburger coalfield operates. After completing his studies in Bonn and Berlin in 1920 and 1921, he worked as a mountain trainee in the Bonn Mining Office until 1923 . His professional path then led him to the Wintershall corporation, where he was employed as director of the Hüpstedt , Beberstedt and Felsenfest potash pits in Thuringia. His next employer was Hibernia AG , where he started as a laborer in the Recklinghausen colliery General Blumenthal . He worked in this position until 1927, after which he worked in the company's headquarters in Herne until 1933. From 1935 he held the position of works director of the Wilhelmine Victoria colliery . After the entry ban that came into force in 1933 expired, Spruth joined the NSDAP in 1937. According to his own statements, he had been a member of the SA since 1935, where he was a Rottenführer and professionally organized in the Nazi Association of German Technology.

In World War II , first used as a soldier in Norway, he took over in 1940 in Katowice , the position of the coal mine director in the local headquarters of the Reich Hermann Göring . As such he was a board member of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring Oberschlesien. After the end of the Nazi regime, he received his doctorate in Aachen in 1946 as Dr.-Ing. Another job followed for Hibernia AG in their head office. In the denazification process, Spruth was initially described as a strong supporter of the Nazi movement before 1933, but was then classified as "unencumbered" in the appeal process.

Spruth, father of three daughters and two sons, was internationally recognized as a capacity in the field of mining. He wrote some books on mining coinage that were considered to be standard works and wrote especially for the magazines Der Anschnitt and Glückauf on numismatic mining topics.

Publications (excerpt)

  • Longwall construction in steel and light metal. A practical manual, Essen 1963.
  • The mining coinage of the territories at Eder, Lahn and Sieg, Bochum 1974
  • The mining coinage of the Rhine-Palatinate silver mines, Bochum 1977
  • The Hildesheim mining thaler of Bishop Jobst Edmund von Brabeck from the St. Antonius Eremita mine in Hahnenklee, with a preface by Willi Heim, Bochum 1981
  • The Upper Harz exploitation thalers from Braunschweig-Lüneburg as part of the history of their mines, Bochum 1986
  • The Siegerland silver and copper smelters, Bochum 1990

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  • Honoring the dead ", Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1993, p. 33, 68th edition, Ed. Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV, Verlag für Heimatliteratur

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fritz Spruth in the regional personal dictionary of the VVN-BdA Siegerland-Wittgenstein
  2. ↑ family chronicle Siegener Spruths from the year 1766 (PDF, 1.47 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Spruth, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mine director and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1991
Place of death Recklinghausen