Hanns Ketteler

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Hanns Ketteler (born October 25, 1930 - April 3, 2009 ) was a German mining director.

Life

Hanns Ketteler was a mountain assessor and had worked his first shift in 1951. In 1961 he became a district climber at the Prosper II colliery . In 1968 he became assistant director and was involved in the construction of shaft 8 as the central shaft on Prosper II. With the transfer of the Prosper mine and the entire mining assets of the Arenberg Bergbau-GmbH in 1969 to the newly founded Ruhrkohle AG , Ketteler became mine director of Prosper II in 1970 he became director of the new Prosper-Haniel composite mine with over 4000 employees in the Prosper I (1/4/5), Prosper II (2/3/8), Prosper III (6/7), Prosper IV (shaft 9) , Arenberg continuation 1/2 , Jacobi 1/2, Franz Haniel 1/2, Möller 5 , and the Prosper coking plant . In 1976 he opened up the Bottrop-Kirchhellen mining area . From 1979 to 1993 he was chairman of the Prosper-Haniel company.

Ketteler is considered the "father" of the Förderberg , a worldwide unique conveyor system. On May 2, 1987 Pope John Paul II visited the Bottrop mine at the invitation of the Catholic Ketteler and met miners.

In 1992, Ketteler officially retired, but continued to be involved in the Berlin Treuhandanstalt am Aufbau Ost, especially in the environmental rehabilitation of the eastern German lignite mining areas.

In 1987, Ketteler was the initiator of Bottrop's town twinning with the Hungarian Veszprém . In 1974 he was the founding president of the Bottrop Lions Club .

In 1971, Hanns Ketteler was appointed by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant , the Cardinal Dean of the Catholic Church as a Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and invested in the Konstanz Minster on May 15, 1971 by Archbishop Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the Order. Most recently he was an officer of the order.

He was married to Hermione geb. Meyborg.

honors and awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hanns Ketteler obituary notice , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, April 7, 2009
  2. ↑ a b c d Helga Pillar: He shaped the mining of this city. Hanns Ketteler, mine director i. R., died suddenly and unexpectedly. In: derwesten.de. WAZ , June 6, 2009, accessed January 23, 2015 .
  3. ^ Friedhelm Wessel: When mining came to Kirchhellen. In: Stories from Kirchhellen. grafenwald.de, May 30, 2009, accessed on January 23, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Partnership of the Mining Cities. (No longer available online.) Www.bottrop.de, May 18, 2007, archived from the original on January 22, 2015 ; accessed on January 23, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bottrop.de
  5. ^ Hanns Ketteler receives the Willy Jaeger Prize posthumously , WAZ , June 18, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Ketteler, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mine director
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1930
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 2009