Julius Grauenhorst
Julius Grauenhorst (born October 1, 1875 in Göttingen , † October 12, 1966 in Jagdhaus ) was a German industrialist.
Life
Grauenhorst was born as the son of the Royal Prussian station master Friedrich Grauenhorst, the sixth of eight children in Göttingen. After attending school in Göttingen and Hameln, he learned the trade of industrial clerk in Hameln in four years from 1889.
After the turn of the century, Grauenhorst worked as an accountant and buyer for the Osnabrück steelworks, Georgsmarienhütte as well as the Piesberg and Werne collieries .
In order to be able to gain further experience quickly, he switched to the company Ravené the so-called "iron king" from Berlin with a branch in Hanover, to the hardware store of the Prussian Commerce Councilor Georg von Cölln , based in Hanover, as a branch manager in Cologne .
From October 1, 1904, he was the director of the purchasing management of the Lothringer Hüttenverein Aumetz-Friede in Knutange (Kneuttingen), and from 1910 he was procured .
In Knutange Grauenhorst had his first meeting with Peter Klöckner , whose right hand he later became. He brought Grauenhorst, who had contributed to the merger of the Fentscher Hütte with the Kneuttingen ironworks to form the Lothringer Hütten und Bergwerkverein and the renovation of the complex, to Castrop-Rauxel on January 1, 1914 . This is where Peter Klöckner bought the Victor & Ickern collieries.
At least since the time when Grauenhorst settled down as director of the Zeche Victor and the Zeche Ickern in Rauxel, Klöckner did not make any major decisions without the advice and cooperation of his confidante Julius Grauenhorst. Without emphasis on rank, he was “only” director of the Rauxeler collieries.
At the side of Klöckner, Julius Grauenhorst contributed to merging his company into Klöckner-Werke AG in 1923 .
Without formal appointment, Julius Grauenhorst was the first man on the board. Grauenhorst Klöckner reported to Haus Hartenfels once or twice a week until the company's headquarters were relocated to Duisburg .
The death of Peter Klöckner put an end to the collaboration. It had lasted beyond the day on which Julius Grauenhorst left the Executive Board at the beginning of 1940 after reaching the age limit. Still active on the supervisory board, he returned to the orphaned management of the Klöckner-Werke for a short time after the war. He was a member of the supervisory board until 1958.
Grauenhorst died on October 12, 1966 in his adopted home in the Hochsauerland and found his final resting place in Fleckenberg .
literature
- Julius Grauenhorst: War letters to the sons 1940–1945 . Editor Antje Kleffner Frieling & Huffmann GmbH, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8280-2612-4
swell
- Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung of October 4, 1929
- Julius Grauenhorst's diaries
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grauenhorst, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1966 |
| Place of death | Hunting lodge |