Paul Prussing

Paul Prüssing (born February 11, 1861 in Seesen am Harz ; † November 4, 1914 in Göschwitz near Jena ; full name: Günter Friedrich Paul Prüssing ) was a German chemist and cement manufacturer .

family

Paul Prüssing was born as the second son of Godhard Prüssing , who was in charge of building the Holzminden-Kreiensen railway at the time, and Roma Pantzer. The family later moved to Holzminden because his father co-founded the cement factory Prüssing, Planck & Co. in nearby Vorwohle . He married Johanne Karoline Marie Becker, daughter of the ducal Braunschweig clerk at the Walkenried district court and post holder August Wilhelm Theodor Becker and Betty Karoline Johanne Pape. They had five children:

• Margarethe Dora Prüssing (* July 12, 1887 in Tasdorf; † May 27, 1958 in Beckum)
• Marie Anna Franziska Prüssing (born January 25, 1890 in Tasdorf), commercial teacher and member of the state parliament in Thuringia
• Hans Wilhelm Hermann Prüssing (* March 22, 1892; † April 19, 1918 as a soldier), Dr. jur. , personally liable partner of the Saxon-Thuringian Portland cement factory Prüssing & Co. KGaA
• Paul Prüssing (born September 23, 1893; † 1894)
• Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Curt Prüssing (born March 26, 1896 in Tasdorf, † April 2, 1988 in Munich), Dr.-Ing. , Chemist and entrepreneur

Life

After attending grammar school in Holzminden, he went to Munich with his older brother Carl Prüssing in 1879 to study chemistry and geology. Together with his brother he was a founding member of the Corps Brunsviga Munich . Paul Prüssing continued his studies at the Universities of Berlin and Göttingen, where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate.

In 1885 he entered professional life. He supported his father, who had since left the Vorwohler Portland cement factory Prüssing, Planck & Co. , with the construction of the Portland cement factory Guthmann & Jeserich in Kalkberge-Rüdersdorf near Berlin. After the completion of this factory, he took over its management, while his father founded the Saxon-Thuringian Portland cement factory Prüssing & Co. KGaA in Göschwitz in 1886 .

Paul Prüssing managed the Rüdersdorfer factory until 1897, when it became part of Adler AG . He then set up the Central German Portland cement factory Prüssing & Co. in Schönebeck on the Elbe . After the death of his father Godhard Prüssing in 1903, he and his brother Carl took over the management of the two factories, to which further cement and lime works were later attached. After the death of his brother in 1912, Paul Prüssing took over the sole management of the company and in 1913 moved with his family to Göschwitz. Here he died after a brief illness on November 4, 1914.

His son Hans Prüssing and the son of Carl Prüssing, Ernst GW Prüssing, joined the management of the company as personally liable partners , and in January 1918 the previous chairman of the company's supervisory board, Bernhard Averbeck , was the future senior boss . Ernst Prüssing initially remained with the company as a junior boss and after the merger in 1941 with the Schlesische Portland-Cement-Industrie AG , based in Opole, as a member of the board until he was kidnapped and murdered by the Soviets in 1945.

In the Association of German Portland Cement factories he worked actively and was a member of the Economic Committee, in standard Revision Committee and the Board of Directors of the Laboratory there.

literature

• 50 years of Göschwitz Portland cement. Göschwitz 1936-
• Tonindustrie-Zeitung , No. 140 (1914), p. 1831.