Hugo Koch (miner)
Hugo Koch (born November 28, 1845 in Sankt Andreasberg , † January 1, 1932 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German miner and smelter and university professor.
family
Hugo Koch came from an old Upper Harz family of mountain officials. He was the son of the sub-climber Hermann Koch (1814-1877) and his wife Mathilde (born Biewend, 1818-1871) was born. Koch had a total of eleven siblings, including the physician and Nobel Prize winner Robert Koch . His cousin was the Professor of Metallurgy at the Clausthal Bergakademie Robert Biewend .
Life
Hugo Koch studied mining and metallurgy at the Clausthal mining academy . On April 19, 1866, he was one of the five founders of the Corps Hercynia Clausthal . After completing his studies, he started out as a mountain official (January 25, 1873).
In 1873 he was appointed deputy director and in 1875 also director of the state lead and silver ore mine Friedrichsgrube. In 1876 he became director of the mining inspection in Tarnowitz in Upper Silesia. In the same year he was a member of the Prussian commission at the world exhibition in Philadelphia .
Koch's wife Doris, daughter of Hermann Ottiliae , gave birth to their only son, Hermann Koch, in 1879.
Following the example of the coal and steel industry in the American West, which he had toured in connection with the world exhibition in 1876, he carried out a complete modernization of the Friedrichshütte (today Strzybnica (Tarnowskie Góry) ).
In 1882 he was appointed Bergrat and in 1890 Oberbergrat. From 1886 he also headed the Hüttenamt in Friedrichshütte, initially provisionally and from 1889 onwards. In 1908 he retired.
The Technical University of Braunschweig appointed him honorary professor. After his retirement he lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg until his death.
His son Hermann later also devoted himself to mining, worked in Friedrichshütte and Tarnowitz and from 1922 worked as a mining company in the Wroclaw Oberbergamt.
Awards
- Honorary member of the Corps Hercynia Clausthal, 1868
- Iron Cross II. Class and war memorial in the Franco-German War
- Knight's Cross of the Red Eagle Order , 1884
- Appointment to the secret mountain ridge, 1901
- Royal Crown Order III. 1st class , 1908
- Honorary chairman of the Association of Old Men of the Corps Hercynia Clausthal, 1924
literature
- W. Serlo: Bergmann families . In: Glückauf - Berg- und Hüttenmännische magazine . Part I, June 26, 1926, pp. 833-836 .
- Werner Kroker: Cook, Hugo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 250 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hermann Meyer: 100 years of Corps Hercynia zu Clausthal 1866–1966 . Mülheim an der Ruhr 1966, p. 181
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personal details (PDF) In: Glückauf - Berg- und Hüttenmännische Zeitschrift , Volume 44, No. 3, January 18, 1908, p. 107
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cook, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German miner and smelter and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sankt Andreasberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1932 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Charlottenburg |