Max Zell

Max Friedrich Otto Gustav Zell (born April 8, 1866 in Lindow (Mark) , † December 25, 1943 in Bad Brambach ) was a German industrialist.

Life

Zell attended high school in Leobschütz and studied mining at the Bergakademie in Freiberg . In 1887 he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia . In 1891 he completed his studies as a qualified mining engineer and became assistant director of the Ewald colliery in Herne and, in 1894, of the Consolidated Halleschen Pfänschaften in Halle an der Saale . In 1896 he became director and works manager, in 1907 general director of the company. After it was merged with Mansfeld AG, Zell moved in 1926 as managing director of the East Elbe lignite syndicate in Berlin.

In addition, he held numerous supervisory board mandates: as chairman of the Hallische Röhrenwerke AG, as a member of the Halle-Hettstedter Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG (Halle), the Prehlitzer Braunkohlen AG (Meuselwitz), the Wegelin & Hübner Maschinenfabrik und Eisengießerei AG (Halle) and of Mitteldeutsche Verlags AG (Halle).

Zell was chairman of the society for lignite and mineral oil research at the Technical University Berlin-Charlottenburg and advisory board of the board of trustees of the lignite foundation at the Bergakademie Freiberg.

Awards

• Honorary doctorate from a Dr.-Ing. Eh the Bergakademie Freiberg, 1923.
• Honorary Senator of the University of Halle , 1925

literature

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 2085.
• Adolf Berve, Herbert Dieter Nienhaus, Kurt Schröter, Gerhard Voigt, Karl Heinz Weber: Chronicle of the Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen, Part II - Corps Saxo-Borussia Freiberg i. Sa. 1842-1935 (1951). Main section II, pp. 279, 293.