Horst Forchmann

Horst Forchmann (born October 13, 1905 in Katowice , Upper Silesia , † February 18, 1988 in Brühl (Rhineland) ) was a German mining engineer in the Rhenish lignite district .

Life

Forchmann enrolled at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University for law and political science. In the summer semester of 1924 he was active in the Corps Marcomannia Breslau . After inactivation , he switched to mining and the Wroclaw University of Technology . He passed the mountain diploma exam with distinction after a short time. After initially working in hard coal mining , he applied to Rheinische AG for lignite mining and briquette production . Employed at Roddergrube in 1935 , he had to start his career from scratch. During the Second World War he was an operator under the most difficult conditions . From 1945 he was a member of the board of the brown coal and briquette works Roddergrube AG. The North German Coal Control (1946-1948) of the British zone of occupation appointed him in 1947 as general director of the brown coal and briquette plants Roddergrube AG. From 1952 he was Labor Director and member of the board of the brown coal and briquette works Roddergrube AG. In 1961 he became a board member of Rheinische Braunkohlenwerke Aktiengesellschaft (today RWE Power ). In 1971 he retired. He is buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne.

Works

• Development tendencies of the West German lignite mining . Brown coal 3 (1951), pp. 38-48.

Honors

• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Great Federal Cross of Merit (1972)
• Honorary Corpsburch of the Marcomannia Breslau (1987)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 96/315.
2. ↑ Norbert Ranft: From object to subject: Co-determination, social climate and structural change in mining since 1945 (1988)
3. ^ Arno Kleinebeckel: Lignite Company: History of a Raw Material, a Revier, an Industry in the Rhineland (1986)
4. ↑ H. Hübner: Mining Sciences and Process Engineering in Mining and Hottenwesen , Vol. 17 (1970)
5. ^ Corpszeitung Marcomannia, No. 78, May 1988, pp. 1349-1351.
6. ↑ unit. Newspaper for members of IG Mining and Energy (1973)