Hermann Kellermann (industrialist)
Hermann Kellermann (born September 28, 1875 in Altenessen ; † July 3, 1965 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German mining engineer and manager in the coal and steel industry , who from 1906 held managerial positions in the Gutehoffnungshütte company .
Life
Kellermann came from a long-established mining family. He studied at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , where he was a member and later an honorary member of the Corps Hercynia , and at the Bergakademie Berlin . After the second state examination , he worked briefly as a mining assessor in the Prussian state mining administration. In 1906 he left the civil service and became director of the mine at Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) in Oberhausen , where he initially took over the technical management of the coal mines in Oberhausen , Vondern and Ludwig as well as the limestone and dolomite quarries . In 1920 he joined the board of directors of Gutehoffnungshütte and was temporarily imprisoned in 1923 during the occupation of the Ruhr . Until 1942, Kellermann was gradually transferred to the management of all mining operations of the GHH. When the previous GHH General Director Paul Reusch was dismissed for political reasons in 1942 , Kellermann finally took the lead of the entire group and retained this position after the Second World War until the group was broken up by the British occupying forces.
Even outside the company Kellermann worked among others as Head of Knappschafts - Professional Association and Chairman of the Board of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim. As chairman of the Rhine-Westphalian coal syndicate for many years (1935–1942), he was also instrumental in founding Steinkohlen-Elektrizitäts Aktiengesellschaft (STEAG) in Essen.
After the end of the war, Kellermann founded an aid campaign for miners from the former German eastern regions . In 1958 he also founded the H. Kellermann Foundation for the training and promotion of GHH staff members and their children.
On his 70th birthday, Kellermann was made an honorary citizen of the city of Oberhausen. When the British city commander later wanted to check whether the award was compatible with occupation law, he returned the award in 1947.
Kellermann was buried in the Ehrenfriedhof in Essen.
Awards
- Honorary citizenship of the city of Oberhausen (1945, returned 1947)
- Honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing. E. h.) From the Clausthal Mining Academy (1951)
- Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim (1957)
- Heinitz Medal of the Economic Association in Bonn (1960)
- Georg Agricola commemorative coin
literature
- Johannes Bähr, Ralf Banken, Thomas Flemming: The MAN. A German industrial history. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57762-8 . ( Preview on Google Books )
- Bodo Herzog: Kellermann, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 472 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietrich Behrends: In the Steinhauer house, music came from every crack . In: Oberhausen. A yearbook. 1999. pp. 39-46.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kellermann, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mining engineer and manager in the mining industry, CEO of Gutehoffnungshütte |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elderly food |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1965 |
| Place of death | Mülheim an der Ruhr |