Gustav Weinholz

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Gustav Eduard Franz Weinholz (born August 21, 1874 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † March 15, 1951 in Duisburg-Huckingen ) was a German mining engineer and manager.

Life

After graduating from the Realgymnasium in Frankfurt (Oder), Gustav Weinholz studied mining at the Bergakademie Clausthal . In 1892 he became a member of the Corps Hercynia Clausthal . After completing his studies, he was head of an ore mine in Switzerland for one year. In 1899 he worked as an engineer for the construction project of the Simplon tunnel in Brig for five years . From 1904 to 1911 he was the mine director of various brown coal mines near Frankfurt (Oder) and in Poley in Niederlausitz . In 1911 he became mine director of Golpa-Jeßnitz AG in Zschornewitz in the Halle (Saale) district, from which Elektrowerke AG Grube Golpa emerged. In 1931 he was appointed to the board of the Braunschweigischen Kohlen-Bergwerke AG in Helmstedt. He retired in 1939.

Awards

  • Appointed honorary member of the Corps Hercynia Clausthal, 1949

literature

  • Weinholz, Gustav, Eduard, Franz. In: Robert Volz: Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , pp. 2006-2007.
  • Hermann Meyer: 100 years Corps Hercynia zu Clausthal 1866–1966 , Mülheim an der Ruhr 1966, pp. 193–194