Hermann Gorizia

Hermann Görz (born January 31, 1861 in Mainz , † November 9, 1930 in Berlin-Grunewald ) was a German electrical engineer and entrepreneur .

Life

Hermann Görz was born in Mainz in 1861 as the son of the later President of the Higher Regional Court Joseph Görz and his wife Barbara Franziska Stumpf (1824–1885). He was the younger brother of Adolf Görz . He was catholic. After attending secondary school in Mainz, he completed an apprenticeship in precision engineering with Rudolf Fuess in Berlin. From 1879 he studied mathematics and physics and from 1882 electrical engineering with Erasmus Kittler at the TH Darmstadt . Gorizia is considered to be Erasmus Kittler's first student. After graduating in 1884, he joined the municipal electricity works in Berlin as an engineer . In 1887 he changed to the management of AEG . Most recently he was a deputy member of the board. In 1893 he moved to Siemens & Halske and until 1914 managed the Russian branch in St. Petersburg. Gorizia modernized the Siemens factories there. His measures were later adopted in other Siemens factories.

After the outbreak of the war, Gorizia volunteered for army service and was assigned to the War Ministry in Berlin in 1916. As a result, he developed numerous contacts with various officers, whom he later placed at the Siemens factory. From 1918 he worked again at Siemens & Halske in Berlin. From March 1919 he headed the newly created personnel department and was therefore responsible for around 80,000 to 100,000 employees. He developed completely new methods of personnel assessment and management. One of his most important employees was Wolf-Dietrich von Witzleben . He headed the personnel department until he left the company on September 30, 1930 due to illness.

Hermann Görz died a few months later in November 1930 in Berlin-Grunewald. Hermann Görz was married to Marie von Schulze-Hausmann (1875–1963) since 1897.

Honors

• 1917: Secret building councilor in Hesse.
• 1926: Dr.-Ing. e. H. of the TH Darmstadt .

literature

• Andreas Göller: Practice-Theory-Innovation. On the history of electrical engineering at the TH Darmstadt 1882-1945. In: Archive for Hessian History. Volume 65, 2007, pp. 165-198.
• Werner Hübschmann: The importance of Prof. Kittler and his students for the development of electrical engineering. In: Horst Wessel (ed.): Electrical engineering in the course of time. Berlin and Offenbach 1986, pp. 37-48.
• Christian Reuber: The long way to the top. Careers of executives in large German companies in the 20th century. Frankfurt / Main 2012.