Kaspar Berninghaus

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Kaspar Berninghaus , also Caspar Berninghaus (born February 19, 1860 in Essen , † December 14, 1933 ) was a German industrialist.

Life

Kaspar Berninghaus was the son of the industrialist Ewald Berninghaus . He studied engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and became a member of the Corps Bavaria there . After the death of his father in March 1885, he took over the management of the Ewald Berninghaus company, steam boiler factory, shipyard, iron foundry and machine factory in Duisburg as a co-owner . In 1906 he became the sole owner. The company was further expanded under Berninghaus' leadership. In 1888, a second shipyard for shipbuilding was acquired in Duisburg's customs port. From 1912 onwards, the Herne repair plant was expanded to become an important boiler and apparatus construction factory. From 1890 he manufactured marine engines that he had developed himself. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 , Berninghaus received a Grand Prix for a ship's steam boiler exhibited there. He made the castings required for the production of the apparatus and machines in his own foundry. In the mid-1920s, Berninghaus was one of the leading inland shipping yards of its time. The side-wheel tugboat Oscar Huber , built by Berninghaus in 1922, is the last paddle steamer still on the Rhine today and serves as a museum ship. Around 1932 Berninghaus acquired the Cologne shipyard from Sachsenberg-Werke .

He was also chairman of the supervisory board of the cable works in Duisburg , which he co-founded , the Sachsenberg brothers in Roßlau, the Deutsche Schiffskreditbank in Duisburg, Moseldampfschiffahrt AG in Koblenz and Calor Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft in Duisburg.

He was a member of the Duisburg-Ruhrort Chamber of Commerce and Industry and acted as a commercial judge.

Kaspar Berninghaus was one of the pioneers in the optimization of inland waterway vessels using hydrodynamic ship models .

Awards

  • Dr.-Ing. hc
  • Rhine flag of the association for the protection of shipping interests , 1924

literature

  • Berninghaus, Kaspar. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 121.
  • Berninghaus, Kaspar. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 174.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steam boiler factory Ewald Berninghaus on www.huen-un-perduen.de
  2. ↑ Stahl und Eisen , Volume 54, No. 3, 1933, p. 51.
  3. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 216.
  4. ↑ History of VBW www.vbw-ev.de
personal data
SURNAME Berninghaus, Kaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berninghaus, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1933