Otto Fabian

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Otto Fabian (born July 8, 1856 in Halle an der Saale ; † January 20, 1938 there ) was a German mountain ridge and industry manager .

Life

Otto Fabian was the son of Alexander Emil Fabian (* 1805; † 1864) and Ernestine Wilhelmine Marie Fabian, née Erdmann (* 1822; † 1900) as well as a nephew of Karl Leopold Fabian , the progenitor of the Fabian family, who in the following years different Prussian mountain officials belonged. Otto Fabian attended the municipal high school in Halle. After studying in his hometown and in Berlin, he completed his military service with the Halle Fusilier Regiment No. 36. In 1879 he became a mountain trainee and in 1883 a mountain assessor . As a mining inspector, he was initially at the Saarbrücken mining department , then at the Neunkirchen mining inspection departmentactive. From 1887 to 1897 Fabian worked as a mine director and director of the mining inspection in Dudweiler . In 1889 he had already received the Bergrat award .

In 1897 he resigned from the Prussian civil service and was then general director of Zeitzer Paraffin and Solar Oil Factory AG, based in Halle, until 1912. At the same time, Fabian was chairman of the Knappschafts-Berufsgenossenschaft in the central German lignite mining area from 1902 and founded the world's first psychiatric hospital for miners in 1913 ("Bergmannswohl" in Schkeuditz ). He was also the founding father of the first Central German lignite syndicate (1909 to 1913), for which the mining entrepreneurs involved elected him as chairman of the board. Since 1907 he was also a member of the supervisory board of Anhalt-Dessauische Landesbank, which he took over as chairman in 1921. At the same time he was chairman of the German Brown Coal Industry Association (DEBRIV).

After the outbreak of World War II he enlisted at the age of 58 as a volunteer and was a battalion commander seriously wounded, for which he the Verwundetenabzeichen received. At the same time, Fabian was a holder of other high orders of merit (see awards and titles). Since the merger of Zeitzer Paraffin- und Solarölabrik AG into A. Riebeck'sche Montanwerke AG , with an interruption during the First World War, from 1912 to 1938 he was a permanently re-elected member of the supervisory board of Riebeck'sche Montanwerke (from 1926 a subsidiary of IG Colors ). In addition, he was President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Halle from 1921 to 1924 , after which he was Honorary President until his death. Otto Fabian died in his hometown at the age of 81.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Fabian ( 1856-1938 ) Generalogy Ancestry, accessed October 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ Fabian, Otto Deutsche Biografie, accessed on October 25, 2019.
  3. ↑ Beeckmann, E. Jüngst: Glückauf. Berg- und Hüttenmännische magazine. Volume 63, no.14 . Glückauf Verlag, 1927, p. 492. Delibra, accessed on October 26, 2019.
  4. ^ Irmtraud Dalchow: The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Halle-Dessau. 150 years of chamber history in Central Germany. 1844-1994. Festschrift of the IHK Halle-Dessau for the 150th anniversary. Halle-Dessau Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1995, p. 242.
  5. ↑ Beeckmann, E. Jüngst: Glückauf. Berg- und Hüttenmännische magazine. Volume 63, no.14 . Glückauf Verlag, 1927, p. 492. Delibra, accessed on October 26, 2019.
  6. ↑ Beeckmann, E. Jüngst: Glückauf. Berg- und Hüttenmännische magazine. Volume 63, no.14 . Glückauf Verlag, 1927, p. 492. Delibra, accessed on October 26, 2019.
  7. ↑ See annual reports A. Riebeck'sche Montanwerke AG Otto Fabian in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
  8. ^ Irmtraud Dalchow: The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Halle-Dessau. 150 years of chamber history in Central Germany. 1844-1994. Festschrift of the IHK Halle-Dessau for the 150th anniversary. Halle-Dessau Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1995, p. 242.
  9. ↑ Beeckmann, E. Jüngst: Glückauf. Berg- und Hüttenmännische magazine. Volume 63, no.14 . Glückauf Verlag, 1927, p. 492. Delibra, accessed on October 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Fabian, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mountain ridge and industry manager
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1938
Place of death Halle (Saale)