Ottmar Fuchs (Mining Captain)

Ottmar Fuchs (* 11. November 1862 in Koenigstein , † 16th November 1941 ) was chairman of the mining management Saarbrucken, Reich Commissioner for the carbon management and mines, the mining authority Bonn .

Life

After graduating from high school in Wiesbaden, Ottmar Fuchs came on March 18, 1882 as an intern in the district of the Bonn Oberbergamt and studied in Munich and Berlin . He did his military service as a one-year volunteer and was most recently a captain in the Landwehr . After the two state examinations, Fuchs became a mountain assessor and initially earned his living as an unskilled worker at the Bonn Mining Authority. He switched to the Saarbrücken mine directorate , where he was employed as a mining inspector in 1895 and worked in the Heinitz mine inspection department. In 1900 he became mine director and four years later Bergrat or Secret Mountain Ridge . In the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry he was a lecturing councilor and in 1908 a privy councilor. In 1911 he returned to the Saarbrücken Mining Directorate and became its chairman. Before Fuchs acted as chairman of the management office of the Saarbrücken Mining Directorate and the German Mining Commission in 1919, he was temporarily Reich Commissioner for Coal Distribution from 1917 onwards. From May 1, 1921 on, he held the position of director of the Bonn Mining Authority as a mining captain and remained in this position until his retirement on April 1, 1928. From 1923 to 1931, Fuchs was also chairman of the economic examination office at the University of Bonn.

Honors

• 1904 Secret mountain ridge
• 1908 Secret upper mountain ridge
• 1928 honorary doctor Dr. rer. pole. hc from the University of Bonn

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918-1945 / 46). Biographisches Handbuch, Münster, Aschendorff Verlag, 2004, p. 153, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 .

Web links

• Ottmar Fuchs Short biography on the Internet portal "Westphalian History"