Kurt Seebohm

Kurt Seebohm (born June 25, 1870 in Düsseldorf , † June 22, 1946 in Dortmund-Kurl ) was a German coal and steel industrialist.

family

His parents were the industrialist Hermann Seebohm (1827–1886) and his wife Mary Harding Mulvany (1836–1875). Kurt Seebohm was a grandson of the Irish mining company William Thomas Mulvany through his mother .

He married his relative Ida Seebohm (1869-1958), whose father was Bernhard Seebohm (1839-1907), mine director in St. Richardschacht-Teplitz and a cousin of his father. His son Hans-Christoph Seebohm was Federal Minister of Transport and Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

Seebohm studied at the University of Freiburg and at the Bergakademie Freiberg and became a member of the Corps Hasso-Borussia in April 1888 . After graduating as a qualified engineer, he entered the Saxon civil service and became a mining assessor and unskilled worker at the Freiberg Mining Authority and at the Freiberg, Dresden and Zwickau Mining Authorities. In 1902 he was given a leave of absence from the civil service to take over the management of the Upper Silesian mines of Prince Pless as mine director . In 1904 he returned to the civil service as head of the Ölsnitz mining inspection. On October 1, 1906, he took his final leave and switched to the private sector. Seebohm became head of the Britannia coal works in Graupen , Seestadtl and Königswerth on the Eger , in which the Seebohm family was involved.

From 1915 to 1940 Seebohm was General Director of the Britannia Coal Works. The Nazis beat 1940 significant parts of the Britannia Group to Sudetenland Bergbau AG . The remnants of the plants in the Falkenauer Revier were merged with the Grassether Braunkohlengesellschaft to form Egerländer Bergbau AG, whose general director Seebohm remained. After the expropriation, Seebohm was expelled from Czechoslovakia in November 1945. He died in Dortmund-Kurl in 1946 and was buried in Bad Pyrmont .

literature

• Hasso-Borussen Post 3 (January 1951), p. 59f.