Hermann Olfe

Hermann Olfe, 1962

Hermann Olfe (born November 17, 1884 in Kreuztal ; † August 31, 1969 in Munich ) was a German industrialist and director of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG .

Life

Born as the son of the director of the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Kohlensyndikat in Essen, Kommerzienrat Wilhelm Olfe and his wife Elise, b. Vogel, Olfe attended the secondary school in Essen and after graduating from high school (1903) studied the mountain subject in Heidelberg, Paris and Aachen. In Heidelberg he was a member of the Corps Rhenania . In 1907 he became a mountain trainee, in 1912 a mountain assessor. In 1914 he joined Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG. During the First World War he was entrusted with the administration of the Turkish coal mines on the Black Sea. In 1918 he was promoted to mine director. He was head of the Bonifacius colliery , later deputy and from 1920 a full board member of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG. In 1926 Olfe took over the management of the Westende and Thyssen 4/8 collieries and was deputy leader of the Hamborn group. In 1929 he was transferred to the Dortmund group and head of the Zollern , Germania and Tremonia collieries , from October 1931 of the Hansa-Westhausen colliery , and later of the Adolf von Hansemann and Erin collieries . Among other things, he was responsible for the design and commissioning of the large-scale coal mine Gustav. Hermann Olfe retired in 1946, but was still a member of the supervisory board of Dortmunder Bergbau AG and Erin Bergbau AG, and from 1957 to 1963 a member of the supervisory board of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG.

Olfe was the spokesman for the Association for Mining Interests in the Dortmund District Mining Authority and President of the Westphalian Industry Club in Dortmund.

literature

• Directory of the Heidelberg Rhenanen living on November 1, 1937 . cit. 1937, p. 76f.