Kurt Klemme

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Kurt Klemme (born September 25, 1890 in Köslin , † December 20, 1965 in Munich ) was a German mining assessor and director of Hoesch Bergwerks AG

Life and work

Kurt Klemme was the only child of the lawyer Paul Klemme (1854–1931). Paul Klemme, originally from Grätz ( Province of Posen ), was a royal councilor in the Prussian administration of Aachen and director of the Aachen Association for the Promotion of Labor , later the Landesbank.

After graduating from high school in Aachen in 1910, Kurt Klemme completed his training as a mountain assessor with financial support from his uncle, the mountain assessor Stanislaus Klemme . He studied in Göttingen and Aachen from 1911 to 1914 and was appointed mountain trainee in July 1914 after passing his first state examination . However, the legal clerkship was interrupted from September 1915 by military service. From January 1916 he was used as an infantryman in the Cuirassier Regiment No. 8 on the Ypres Front. In April 1917 he was transferred to the German mining administration in Valenciennes until, after the armistice in December 1918, he retired from military service in the rank of vice-sergeant. Later, by order of the Reichswehr Minister of November 18, 1922, Klemme was appointed lieutenant in the reserve.

After the war he continued his legal clerkship in Kattowitz and, after passing the second state examination in August 1920, joined the Hoesch iron and steel works in Dortmund as works director of the Kaiserstuhl I / II mine. There, in the difficult years after the First World War, he implemented the necessary measures for rationalization and mechanization, such as the introduction of the vibrating chutes , conveyor belts and blow-molding . From 1935 his tasks were expanded and he became head of the Kaiserstuhl colliery , in addition to the Radbod colliery and the Fürst Leopold-Baldur mine , in order to implement the necessary modernization measures there based on the experience gained.

During the Second World War he stayed with his family, despite the heavy bombing, in the industrial north of Dortmund near the Berkwergsanlagen. He saw himself obliged to keep the company going as far as possible and to support the employees and their families. He was not politically active, if only because the experience of the First World War had made him an enemy of the war and also because the influence of his Catholic father and his Catholic wife was contrary to the ideology of the regime. He was friends with the resistance fighters of the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg and Adam von Trott zu Solz through membership in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen , in which he, like his father, was active. But since Klemme was not in the military and the corps had disbanded in 1935 due to incompatibility with National Socialism, there was no longer any contact with the assassination planners.

After the Second World War, the even bigger task was to rebuild the destroyed pits. This succeeded more quickly than expected and due to this achievement, Klemme was promoted to the management of the mining administration of Hoesch AG in 1950, i. H. in the management of all Hoesch collieries. In 1952 he was appointed to the board of directors of Hoesch Bergwerks AG, where he remained until his retirement in 1956.

The name of the Klemmestrasse in Hamm refers to Kurt Klemme as an award, especially for the performance in the development after both wars . This was originally named after his uncle Stanislaus Klemme.

Furthermore, after the war, he devoted himself to the task of bringing the Corps Saxonia Göttingen back to life, which had lost almost a quarter of its members after July 20, 1944 due to war, expulsion and executions. and had no offspring since 1935. He was one of the few members who had a secure economic base in the post-war period and was thus able to enable his two sons to study and to re-establish the corps on a modest basis in 1951, together with some war returnees. In addition, he himself was the first chairman of the board of directors of the corps club after the war from 1952 to 1961; as thanks he was awarded honorary membership

family

Kurt Klemme was married and had three children. The eldest daughter became a teacher. The two younger sons also became mining assessors, in potash mining and in oil and gas production. However, with the structural change in European mining, the generation that followed did not pursue this field of activity any further.

Individual evidence

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