Otto Maigler

Opencast lignite mining on the outskirts of Brühl- Heide (around 1925)

Otto Maigler (born March 8, 1893 in Hoboken , New Jersey , United States , † June 20, 1967 in Cologne ) was a mining engineer and later entrepreneur.

Origin and education

Otto Maigler probably grew up in a German family who lived in the North American city of Hoboken at the time of his birth. However, the length of this stage of life is not known. But he finished his school education in what was then the Kingdom of Württemberg , before the outbreak of the First World War . After this and subsequent studies at the Bergakademie Berlin and Freiberg , Maigler completed his specialist training as a qualified mining engineer and graduate Markscheider .

Professional background

Halle on the Saale

Otto Maigler Lake

Maigler moved from the Saale to the Rhineland after a short job at the lignite mine of the Halleschen Pfänschaften .

Brühl, Hürth and Cologne

In 1917 Maigler worked as an assistant at the brown coal and briquette works Roddergrube AG in Brühl, which emerged from the Roddergrube union . In 1918 Maigler managed the other overburden and subsequent mining operations of the Berrenrath opencast mine in the Berrenrath area , which had been progressing since 1914/15 , the continuation of which later led to the resettlement and excavation of the village. In the period from 1919 to 1930 he then rose to the position of operations manager of his company in Brühl, which in 1922 also appointed him authorized signatory .

Grave of the Maigler family

In 1938 Otto Maigler was appointed to the company's board of directors. Nothing is known about Maigler's position or his work in the subsequent years of National Socialism.

Maigler's company expanded until the late 1950s, and various lignite companies now belonged to it. In 1960, the parent company Roddergrube AG went with his mining claims then as part of a merger with the Rhenish lignite mining works (RAG) in the Rheinbraun based in Cologne on. After this conversion, Otto Maigler became a member of the Supervisory Board. Since 1956 he was chairman of the Rheinische Braunkohlenbrikett -verkauf GmbH . In 1963, now 70 years old, he retired. He died four years later and was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. F, between lit. G + R).

Social Commitment

In Cologne he was involved as a member of the Lions club "Colonia".

Memorial stone in Berrenrath

Commemoration

Otto Maigler, who had used his reputation and influence as a board member of Rheinbraun for the reforestation and recultivation of the district landscape, is remembered today by the Otto Maigler that was created in the area of ​​the city of Hürth and named after him shortly after his death . Lake . The city of Brühl, Maigler's first stop in the Rhineland, also commemorates one of its mining pioneers. In the Pingsdorf area , a road and a festival and leisure meadow bears the name Maigler.

literature

• Ulrich S. Soénius (Hrsg.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Hrsg.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Pp. 338-339.
2. ↑ Who was Otto Maigler? - FAQ on www.otto-maigler-see.de ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Mining archive Bochum: Rheinische Braunkohlenwerke AG, Cologne
4. ↑ Hürther Heimat 16/1967; P. 43