Mine manager

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The mine manager , also known as the mountain manager , was a senior mine employee who, as the representative of a mine owner, was responsible for the technical management of the mine. Mine managers usually worked on smaller tunnel mines. In the early years, however, mine managers were also employed on underground mines for which there was no director. The mine manager formed the mine management together with the company's shift supervisor.

General and history

Until the first half of the 19th century, mining in Germany was under state administration. A mining official appointed to the mining authority , who bore the title of mine manager , was responsible for the management of the mining operations in cooperation with the chief miner . When the inspection principle was introduced in the mining industry in the second half of the 19th century , private mines were no longer under state administration. From this point on, the mine owners were legally obliged by the state to organize the operational (technical) and economic management of their operations themselves. While the larger mines quickly appointed an operator to act as technical manager , the smaller mines were very reluctant to take on this new task. In particular, the mine operators left accounting to the previous upper-class foremen of the mining authorities. This was primarily due to the fact that commercial management was more important than technical management at the time. During the second half of the 19th century, the mines introduced their own mine management.

Area of ​​activity and group of people

The mine manager was given the technical management of the mine. This also included administrative tasks such as drawing up operational plans. As a rule, experienced risers or tradesmen were employed as mine managers . For their tasks it was not necessary that they be particularly scientifically educated, but first and foremost they had to have the technical skills of an experienced climber. Since the shift supervisor or senior shift supervisor was responsible for the commercial management, they did not have to be specially trained in commercial matters. For his duties as a mine manager, it was sufficient that his mathematical and written knowledge enabled him to draw up operational plans and operational reports.

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ a b Memorandum for the 50th anniversary of the Graf Bismarck trade union in Gelsenkirchen. Printed by Carl Bertenburg, Gelsenkirchen 1918, p. 29.
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  6. ^ Voigtland legal association (Hrsg.): Journal for justice and administration initially for the Kingdom of Saxony. First volume, first half, printed and published by Bernh. Tauchnitz junior, Leipzig 1838, p. 433.