Hermann Gehl

Hermann Franz Gehl (born September 11, 1927 in Kastel ; † February 25, 2008 in Duisburg ) was a German mechanical engineer and manager of the German and Nigerian steel industry.

Life

Hermann Gehl studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University and joined the Corps Saxonia-Berlin, which had been reconstituted a few days earlier, in December 1952. He completed his studies in 1959 as a Dipl.-Ing. from. In the same year he began his industrial activity at Friedrich Krupp AG in Rheinhausen . Here he rose to the position of Operations Director of the rolling mill. In 1976 he became managing director of the Westphalian wire industry and from 1978 onwards he was sold to Klöckner-Werke AG by Klöckner Drahtwerke Hamm. In 1982 he became a director of the Nigerian Delta Steel Company in Warri , after the first integrated Nigerian steelworks based on the direct reduction of iron ore with natural gas had been completed by an Austro-German consortium at the beginning of the same year . Here he was Chief Technical Adviser until 1989 .

literature

• Gehl, Hermann Franz in Who is who? The German Who's Who , 31st edition, 1992/93, p. 396

Individual evidence

1. ^ Corps Saxonia-Berlin zu Aachen: Sachsenblatt 2008
2. ^ Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin, 1867–1967, Aachen 1968, p. 289
3. ↑ Delta Steel Company PLC ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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.