Paul Kratz (mountain official)
Paul Kratz (born December 26, 1878 at Gut Hermgesberg in Gruiten , Düsseldorf-Mettmann district ; † 1939 ) was a German mining official and manager of the coal industry.
Life
Paul Kratz obtained his Abitur in 1899 at what was later to become the Carl-Fuhlrott-Gymnasium in Elberfeld . He then completed a one-year internship at the Consolidation colliery in Schalke, where he had a serious accident on August 15, 1899, due to an industrial accident. From 1900 to 1903 he studied the higher mountain subject at the universities of Bonn and Freiburg and the RWTH Aachen . In 1902 he became a member of the Corps Hasso-Borussia Freiburg . At the end of 1903 Kratz became a mountain trainee and four years later a mountain assessor . In 1908 he changed from civil service to the mining industry and became deputy managing director of the mining association in Essen . In 1921 he was appointed mine director and in 1924 deputy member of the board of the Essen coal mines . After the merger with Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG he became a deputy member of the board. With the re-outsourcing in 1933, he became a member of the board of the Essen coal mines.
Kratz was a member of the board of directors of the Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlung and unemployment insurance and a committee member of the Association of German Employers' Associations .
Awards
- Cross of Merit for War Aid, 1917
- Bavarian King Ludwig Cross , 1918
- Iron cross on a white ribbon , 1919
literature
- Kratz, Paul , in: Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft , Vol. 1: A – K. Berlin 1930, p. 1007.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scratch, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mining official and manager of the German coal industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gruiten , Düsseldorf-Mettmann district |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1939 |