Leo Graeff
Leo Gräff (born October 12, 1836 in Trier , † August 4, 1889 in Herne ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur . He was one of the top representatives of German hard coal mining in the young German Empire .
Career
Leo Graeff was a son of the member of the Prussian National Assembly and Judicial Councilor Josef Erasmus Graeff and his wife Marie Pauline Mathieu (1801-1887) from Metz , who both married on May 14, 1832 in Coigny . Gräff studied the mountain subject in Bonn and joined the Corps Saxonia in 1858 . In 1860 he was employed as a mountain trainee in Dudweiler -Jägersfreude, where he a. a. had set up a consumer association to feed miners . On July 18, 1866, he was appointed mining assessor and in 1875 William Thomas Mulvany brought him to Herne as general director of Hibernia AG . His successor was the royal Bergrat a. D. Karl Behrens .
family
Leo had two biological sisters Marie Emilie (1833–1899) and Maria Lucilia (1840–1901) and a Russian adoptive brother Georg Michael (1853–1906), who had come to the Graeff family through Emilie. One of his uncle was the tobacco manufacturer Johann Baptist Graeff .
Honors
- On January 20, 1905, the city of Herne named a street in Herne-Mitte after him.
- In the Saarbrücken district of Rodenhof there is also a Graeffstrasse .
estate
- Stock 32 Bergwerksgesellschaft Hibernia AG, Herne. Bergbauarchiv Bochum, accessed on September 29, 2013 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 16 , 209
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Graf, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1889 |
| Place of death | Herne |