Hermann Alexander Brassert

Hermann Alexander Brassert (born January 24, 1875 in London ; † June 17, 1961 ) was a German-American iron and steel entrepreneur. With his engineering office, he specialized in the planning and construction of integrated smelting and steel works worldwide.

Life

Brassert was born in London, where his father Alexander Brassert, the son of the Dortmund miner Johann Gustav Brassert , worked as a wholesaler in the mining sector. Brassert attended a grammar school in Freiburg and from October 1897 studied the US iron and steel works. In 1900 he found a job with the Edgar Thomson steelworks in Braddock, Pa., Where he rose to the position of operations director of the blast furnaces in 1903 and moved to the Illinois Steel Company in Chicago in 1905 . In 1908 he received US citizenship. In 1925 he founded HA Brassert & Company, a major engineering office (also HA Brassert Inc., consulting engineers) in Chicago. Brassert & Co. had a branch in London.

On January 1, 1933, Brassert received the construction contract for the English ironworks Corby of the company Stewarts & Lloyds , the first ironworks in the world, in which the smelting of acidic iron ores was carried out industrially according to the Paschke-Peetz process ( 52 ° 29 ′ 54 ″ N , 0 ° 39 '46 " W ). Together with the Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen, he built the factory within a year; the first blast furnace was blown on May 8, 1934. 52.498414 -0.662788

Paul Pleiger , who later commissioned the establishment of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring , had visited the plant in Corby and found the economic feasibility of smelting acidic ores confirmed. When the decision was made in 1937 to establish a vertically integrated mining and smelting operation at Germany's largest iron ore deposit, Brassert was obliged to plan and build the new smelting works in Salzgitter-Watenstedt .

Brassert later also received the order to build the Upper Danube iron works in Linz.

In October 1939, when the war broke out, he and his staff of British and American engineers left Hitler's Germany. The transfer of the documents and payments to Brassert were regulated in a cancellation agreement.

Brassert held several US patents in the field of iron and steel production.

literature

Gudrun Pischke: Europe works for the Reichswerke . The National Socialist camp system in Salzgitter. Ed .: Archive of the City of Salzgitter (= Salzgitter Research . Volume 2 ). 1995, ISSN 0941-0864 , A. The framework conditions, p. 11-27 .

Web links

James Burnham: Their Government. In: marxists.org. September 18, 1939, accessed June 11, 2016 .
Ted Fertik: Steel and Sovereignty: Brazilian Debt and Steel in the 1930s, in a Global Mirror. (PDF; 324 kB) March 27, 2015, accessed June 11, 2016 .
Newspaper article about Hermann Alexander Brassert in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

↑ Glenn, Justin: The Washingtons: a Family History. tape 5 , no. 1 . Savas Publishing, Havertown 2014, ISBN 978-1-940669-30-4 , pp. 149 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ ^a ^b W. Serlo: Bergmannsfamilien. VI . 7. The Brassert family and other related mining families. In: Glückauf - Berg- und Hüttenmännische magazine . 63rd year no. 48 . Glückauf, Essen November 26, 1927, p. 1751 ( online [PDF; accessed June 11, 2016]).
^ Anthony Read: The Devil's Disciples . Pimlico, London 2004, ISBN 978-0-7126-6416-5 , pp. 436 ( limited preview [accessed June 12, 2016] typographical error).
↑ Karsten Watsack: Verkehrsbetriebe Peine-Salzgitter. From the beginning to the present . Self-published, Ilsede 2003, ISBN 978-3-935944-01-4 , p. 81 ( Google books [accessed June 11, 2016]).
↑ ^a ^{b In the} event of a disaster. In: DER SPIEGEL 35/1949. spiegel.de, August 25, 1949, accessed on June 11, 2016 .
↑ Christian Kleinschmidt, Thomas Welskopp: America from a German perspective: travel impressions of German engineers on the iron and steel industry in the USA, 1900–1930 (= magazine for company history . No. 39 ). 1994, ISSN 0342-2852 , p. 84, 85 ( uni-bielefeld.de [PDF; 2.7 MB ; accessed on June 11, 2016]).
^ Gudrun Pischke: Europe works at the Reichswerke . The National Socialist camp system in Salzgitter. Ed .: Archive of the City of Salzgitter (= Salzgitter Research . Volume 2 ). 1995, ISSN 0941-0864 , A. The framework conditions, p. 17 .
↑ Example: DE1263048B, method for refining pig iron

personal data
SURNAME	Brassert, Hermann Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American iron and steel entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	January 24, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	after 1939

[1] Glenn, Justin: The Washingtons: a Family History. tape 5 , no. 1 . Savas Publishing, Havertown 2014, ISBN 978-1-940669-30-4 , pp. 149 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[Glueckauf-2] W. Serlo: Bergmannsfamilien. VI . 7. The Brassert family and other related mining families. In: Glückauf - Berg- und Hüttenmännische magazine . 63rd year no. 48 . Glückauf, Essen November 26, 1927, p. 1751 ( online [PDF; accessed June 11, 2016]).

[3] Anthony Read: The Devil's Disciples . Pimlico, London 2004, ISBN 978-0-7126-6416-5 , pp. 436 ( limited preview [accessed June 12, 2016] typographical error).

[4] Karsten Watsack: Verkehrsbetriebe Peine-Salzgitter. From the beginning to the present . Self-published, Ilsede 2003, ISBN 978-3-935944-01-4 , p. 81 ( Google books [accessed June 11, 2016]).

[spiegel-5] {b In the} event of a disaster. In: DER SPIEGEL 35/1949. spiegel.de, August 25, 1949, accessed on June 11, 2016 .

[6] Christian Kleinschmidt, Thomas Welskopp: America from a German perspective: travel impressions of German engineers on the iron and steel industry in the USA, 1900–1930 (= magazine for company history . No. 39 ). 1994, ISSN 0342-2852 , p. 84, 85 ( uni-bielefeld.de [PDF; 2.7 MB ; accessed on June 11, 2016]).

[7] Gudrun Pischke: Europe works at the Reichswerke . The National Socialist camp system in Salzgitter. Ed .: Archive of the City of Salzgitter (= Salzgitter Research . Volume 2 ). 1995, ISSN 0941-0864 , A. The framework conditions, p. 17 .

[8] Example: DE1263048B, method for refining pig iron