Hermann Berckemeyer

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Hermann Berckemeyer (* July 28, 1875 ; † September 27, 1950 ) was a German entrepreneur who was a partner in the Willich company in Dortmund and its subsidiaries.

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Coat of arms of the Berckemeyer family

He came from a bourgeois industrial family with coats of arms and was the son of a general manager. After attending grammar school, which he graduated from high school, Hermann Berckemeyer began a commercial apprenticeship. He then studied politics and economics. Then he traveled to England for a year. After he returned to the German Reich, he participated in several factories in the insulation industry, in particular he became a partner in the Willich company in Dortmund, which was involved in the manufacture of insulation materials and at the same time was a wholesaler for industrial supplies and mining machines as well as cold and heat protection systems .

He took an active part in the First World War and was then reserve major in the Prussian Guards Infantry.

Hermann Berckemeyer became chairman of the association for insulation companies for Rhineland and Westphalia. He was on the supervisory board of various stock corporations and lived in Dortmund, Moltkestrasse 24. In the Reichsgruppe Industrie , he headed the specialist division for insulation companies .

In 1926 he acquired a patent for the manufacture of an abrasive using clay.

He was a member of the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Automobil-Club in Düsseldorf and the German Dendrological Society .

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Hermann Berckefeld must not be confused with the younger leather manufacturer and entrepreneur of the same name, Hermann Berckemeyer († 1971) from Mülheim an der Ruhr , who became the owner of Wilhelmsburg Castle in Barchfeld in Thuringia in 1938 and set up a factory there.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Steel and iron. Journal for the German Ironworks , 1950, p. 1048.
  2. ↑ Erich Reuss: The associations of the construction industry, their becoming, essence and work , 1966, p. 61 and 106.
  3. ^ Structure of the Reichsgruppe Industrie , 1941, p. 133.
  4. ^ Journal of Applied Chemistry, Volume 40 (1927), p. 60.
personal data
SURNAME Berckemeyer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1875
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1950