Hermann Winkhaus

Hermann Winkhaus (born March 14, 1897 in Essen , † October 1, 1968 in Munich ) was a German industrialist.

Life

After his participation in the First World War , where he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern , Hermann Winkhaus studied mining in Freiburg , where he joined the Corps Rhenania Freiburg in 1919 . In 1919 he became a member of the business association for the promotion of intellectual reconstruction forces , which provided the capital for the press empire of Alfred Hugenberg .

After his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. In 1924 he became a mining assessor, then from 1927 to 1932 mining director at the Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen , from 1932 to 1935 mining director at Hoesch-Köln-Neuessen AG for mining and smelting operations in Essen and Dortmund . From 1935 Winkhaus was a board member of Mannesmann AG , from 1940 its deputy chairman, from 1957 to 1962 its chairman.

Winkhaus received an honorary doctorate from the Weihenstephan Agricultural Faculty of the Technical University of Munich . In 1957 he became a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society and the Study Foundation of the German People , in 1966 chairman of the board of directors of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and holder of the ring of honor.

Winkhaus was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation from 1959 to 1960 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Winkhaus in the catalog of the German National Library