Peter Kloeckner

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Peter Klöckner (born November 9, 1863 in Koblenz , † October 5, 1940 in Duisburg ) was a German entrepreneur and industrialist .

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Klöckner was born as the second child of ten to a shipbuilder and shipyard owner from Koblenz . At the shipyard in Koblenz, Moselle ferries (Ponten) were built as a specialty. Since the eldest son was supposed to take over the shipyard, Peter Klöckner learned the trade and management of the company in Cologne, the largest German steel trading group at the time, Carl Spaeter . This was followed by a phase as an accounting correspondent for the Luxembourg mining and Saarbrücker Eisenhütten AG in Burbach . There he also acquired the technical knowledge of steel production .

In the second half of the 1880s he took over the representation of the Spaeter company in Duisburg for the entire Ruhr area. Since this branch was soon converted into an independent company, he became a partner. However, this participation did not meet his expectations. Together with his brother Florian Klöckner he founded a steel trading company in 1906 Duisburg , from which the later Klöckner & Co emerged. They paid particular attention to ailing companies in which they secured the majority of the capital before successfully restructuring them. These included, in particular, steelworks, coal mines and ore mines. So he earned the mocking reputation of the "Medical Council for Sick Works".

Klöckner-Werke AG share of more than 1,000 marks from February 1923 with facsimile signature from Peter Klöckner

As early as 1898 he was in charge of the Hasper iron and steel works . In 1900 he took over the management of the Lothringer Hüttenverein Aumetz-Friede , which was founded in 1897, and in 1917 he founded the Lothringer Hütten- und Bergwerksverein AG , a vertical merger of collieries , smelters and rolling mills (the Aumetz-Friede, Hauts-Fourneaus Lorrains de la Paix and the Fentsche Hüttenwerke in Kneuttingen ; Klöckner also owned the “General” coal mine near Bochum ). With the Treaty of Versailles , all coal mines and ore mines in Lorraine fell to France .

In 1923 he merged all of his stakes in steel in the Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein (Georgsmarienhütte), in the iron and steel works in Hagen-Haspe , in the Mannstaedt works in Troisdorf and in the iron and wire industry in Düsseldorf to form Klöckner- Works AG Rauxel-Berlin in Castrop-Rauxel . In 1926, Klöckner refused to bring his company into Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG . He preferred to remain independent.

In 1925, the Klöckner brothers succeeded in completely taking over the interest group from the Maschinenbauanstalt Humboldt AG and the Motorenfabrik Deutz AG , from which they created the Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG , a company that deals with the manufacture of engines , machines and vehicles ( tractors , Diesel locomotives , trucks ). In 1930 the Oberursel engine factory , which had been associated with Deutz since 1920 and which manufactured aircraft engines, was taken over and in 1936 CD Magirus AG was integrated in Ulm . The later commercial vehicle brand Magirus-Deutz went back to this merger. 1938 took place Organ contract AG between Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG and Klöckner-Werke. In the same year the headquarters of the main administration moved from Castrop-Rauxel to Duisburg.

Klöckner was a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft until 1933 .

In addition to his functions in industry, he was a member of the Prussian State Council for the Center Party from 1930 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Gottwaldt: The Reichsbahn and the Jews 1933-1939. Anti-Semitism on the railways in the pre-war period. Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86539-254-1 , p. 38.

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SURNAME Kloeckner, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1940
Place of death Duisburg