Gisbert Krümmer

Friedrich Wilhelm Gisbert Krümmer (born August 28, 1856 in Dortmund , † January 26, 1922 in Gonzenheim near Homburg ) was the real German secret upper mountain ridge .

Life

He comes from an old Westphalian family who come from the Westhemmerde farm in the Hamm district . He received his education at elementary school, then at the secondary school in Dortmund, which is connected to the grammar school. After passing the exam, he took the miner's path and drove his first shift as a mining enthusiast on April 14, 1874 at the Royal Coal Mine in Ibbenbüren . After the test pit trip at the Eintracht civil engineering colliery near Essen, he studied successively at the universities of Tübingen and Strasbourg and in the last semester he attended lectures at the university and at the mining academy in Berlin. During his time in Strasbourg he was drafted into the Schleswig-Holstein Uhlan Regiment No. 15 . He performed his exercises with the Dragoon Regiment No. 7 in Saarbrücken, to which he later also belonged as a reserve officer.

On July 6, 1879, in Berlin, he passed the mountain trainee exam. He was sent to Hungary and the English coal and iron districts for further training. After his second state examination, he was appointed mountain assessor on October 16, 1883. He first came to the mining district officials in Bochum and a few months later to the mining inspection in Lautenthal . From there he was transferred to the Königin-Luise-Grube in Zabrze , where he was promoted to mining inspector at the end of 1885. On February 1, 1890, he was appointed to the Sulzbach mining inspection and 2 months later he was appointed mine director and director of this mining inspection. In the summer of 1890, Krümmer was commissioned by the Minister for Trade and Industry to accompany the chairman of the mining directorate in Saarbrücken - the Secret Bergrat Nasse - on a trip to assess the conditions of miners in Great Britain, particularly in the coal industry. This gave rise to the report The Miners' Conditions in Great Britain , in which Krümmer contributed the sections on the working conditions of miners in detail and on welfare institutions.

On June 1, 1899, he was appointed Oberbergrat and member of the Wroclaw Mining Authority. But his health had suffered, so on October 1, 1901, he was given temporary retirement. He recovered and on April 1, 1904, he returned to civil service. After a brief assignment as a member of the Oberbergamt in Bonn, he was entrusted with the chairmanship of the mining directorate in Dortmund and, after he had been appointed secret mountain ridge, at the beginning of 1905 with that of the mine directorate in Saarbrücken . But already on April 1, 1907 he was transferred to Clausthal as mining captain and director of the Oberbergamt and on October 1, 1911, he was transferred back to the Bonn Oberbergamt in the same capacity . In March 1917 he was appointed the Real Secret Upper Mountain Ridge with the rank of Council 1st Class. But he stayed in Bonn until he was retired on May 1, 1921.

He was considered a quiet and reserved man and received numerous awards:

• Landwehr service award 2nd class
• Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class with ribbon
• Order of the crown, 2nd class
• Cross of Merit for War Aid
• Iron cross 2nd class on white and black ribbon
• Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown with the Lion
• Commander's Cross 2nd Class of the Brunswick Order of Henry the Lion
• Cross of Honor 2nd Class of the Schaumburg-Lippe House Order

family

He was married in 1886 to Mathilde Frederike von Veith (* September 22, 1858, † September 30, 1921), she was the daughter of Major General Karl Johann von Veith . She organized z. B. After a severe firedamp explosion in the Reden mine on January 28, 1907, a collection was made for the bereaved. She was also the founder of the Fatherland Women's Association in Clausthal. Later she was chairman of the Bonn Patriotic Women's Association, which established the Mathilde Krümmer Foundation in her honor. The couple had several children:

• Gisbert Carl Gustav (1887-1887)
• Adolf Wilhelm (born April 3, 1888; † April 13, 1968), mountain trainee, Dr. phil.

⚭ 1950 Ingeborg von Bardeleben (born January 5, 1907), senior teacher

⚭ Anita Alicia Weil

• Hans Gisbert (March 19, 1890 - January 15, 1965), owner of Girardet & Co. Hamburg ⚭ 1920 Hildegard Anna Girardet, daughter of Wilhelm Girardet
• Mathilde Adelheid Johanna (born August 18, 1891)
• Ewald Ludwig (born September 17, 1896; † October 9, 1968) ⚭ 1930 Irmgart Saxe

literature

• Glückauf Berg- und Hüttenmännische Zeitschrift , Volume 58, February 25, 1922, p. 244

Web links

• Friedrich Wilhelm Gisbert Krümmer family tree

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, 1975, p. 90
2. ^ Helmut von der Heiden, Stephen Taylor, Who's who in the Common Market's press and advertising , 1965, p. 275