Günther Heubel

Günther Heubel (born March 15, 1871 in Leutenberg , Thuringia , † April 20, 1945 in Annahütte ) was a German industrialist in the field of lignite.

Career

Günther Heubel was the fourth of seven children of pastor Friedrich Michael Heubel (1835–1918) and his wife Klara Lydia Hedwig Sattler (1845–1909).

After graduating from secondary school in Erfurt, training in mechanical engineering followed in Premnitz / Havel until 1892 .

He then initially worked as a machine engineer in the salt mine in Leopoldshall near Straßfurt in Anhalt, before moving to FCTh in 1900. Heye Braunkohlenwerke AG, Annahütte, where he was promoted to general director in 1910. In 1913 he became chairman of the Niederlausitzer Bergbau-Verein and its employers 'association as well as a board member of the "Association of German Employers' Associations".

During the First World War, as captain of the railway construction company, he was involved in the construction of bridges, became head of the construction department of the military railway directorate in Warsaw and Varna and was major at the end of the war.

Because of his services to lignite mining technology, in particular the overburden operation and coal processing, the Bergakademie Freiberg awarded him the title of Dr.-Ing. honorary. In July 1933 he was appointed chairman of the “German Brown Coal Industry Association” and head of the brown coal specialist group. He has been a member of the supervisory board of "Braunkohle-Petrol AG" ( BRABAG ) since it was founded in 1934.

He was a participant in the secret meeting on February 20, 1933 of 26 leading German industrialists in the Reichstag Presidential Palace. At this meeting, a fund was set up to finance the Reichstag elections of March 5, 1933.

In 1937 he retired and moved into his villa in Berlin-Dahlem, Schwendener Str. 49. There he was bombed out in 1944 and moved back to his former official residence in Annahütte.

marriage and family

Günther married Johanna Kirst on May 29, 1899 in Seehausen near Frankenhausen (born May 28, 1872 in Weisbach near Leutenberg; † January 10, 1938 in Berlin-Dahlem). With her he had the following children:

1. Werner Siegfried Franz (1901–1999), Federal Railway Director in Frankfurt / Main
2. Hellmuth (1904–1967), businessman in Finsterwalde, later Düsseldorf
3. Ruth (1907–2003), wife of Gottfried Strauss
4. Günther (1909–1969), farmer in South-West Africa

When the Russian soldiers arrived in the garden, he shot himself on April 20, 1945 in his former office in Annahütte.

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1. Johannes Heubel "The Thuringian Heubel", detailed printed family chronicle, Weimar 1938, page 94

2. The handwritten curriculum vitae of Günther Heubel from January 29, 1944, deposited at the Bergakademie Freiberg, serves as the source