Heinrich Pattberg

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Heinrich Pattberg (born August 8, 1862 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † May 11, 1934 in Kapellen near Moers ) was a German mining manager whose services were recognized by the naming of the Pattberg mine .

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After attending primary school , Heinrich Pattberg first worked at the Bonifacius colliery , then did a commercial training and then returned to the colliery. After attending the Bochum mountain school (1884–1887), he became a steiger at the Rheinpreußen colliery , in 1888 a machine operator, in 1891 an upper climber and deputy operator. In 1892 he succeeded Heinrich Hochstrate as mine manager and technical manager of the colliery. In 1899 he was appointed mine director and in 1920 general director . In 1931 he retired.

He made a name for himself in the German mining industry by introducing innovations in mining technology. So he developed a new method for sinking shafts in loose rock (push drilling). His “compound process” was a considerable improvement on the methods used to build manholes up until then. Under Pattberg's leadership, the Rheinpreußen colliery became a pioneer in mechanization and rationalization in the Ruhr mining industry . Significant innovations, which he recognized and introduced early on as trend-setting, were the shaking chute (1906), compressed air-powered excavation hammers (1922), conveyor belts in mining routes (1926) and the electrification of underground operations (1926).

Pattberg was a member of the Ruhrgas AG supervisory board , as well as the board of the mining association and the Reichsknappschaft . The Technical University of Aachen awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1922 (as Dr.-Ing. E. h.), The Technical University of Berlin made him an honorary senator in 1931 . Shafts 5 and 6 of the Rheinpreußen colliery were renamed the Pattberg mine in 1927 in his honor .

His younger brother Wilhelm Pattberg (1865–1937) was also active in the mining industry. He was enlisted by the Chinese government in 1892 as mine director. After his return from China, he founded the Wilhelm Pattberg company in Essen in 1900 . Heinrich Pattberg's daughter Martha married the mining engineer Heinrich Kost , who was Pattberg's successor in the Rhine Prussian management.

literature

  • Stefan Przigoda:  Heinrich Pattberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 102 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Walter Serlo: Men of the mining industry . Paul Schmidt publishing house, Berlin 1937, p. 112 f.
  • Willi Wiesenkemper: Heinrich Pattberg (1862–1934). In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien, Volume VI. 1954, pp. 108-124.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register, registry office Kapellen, No. 12/1934
personal data
SURNAME Pattberg, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1934
Place of death Moers chapels