Richard Zörner

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Portrait of Richard Zörner around 1900

Richard Zörner (born August 27, 1861 in Bruckdorf , † December 4, 1941 in Bensberg ) was a German secret mountain ridge . 1921, he was from the Technical University of Berlin in recognition of his contributions to the promotion of the mining and processing being the honorary doctorate as Dr. Ing. Eh awarded. In all written records his name is always found with the additions Bergrat and Dr. hc

Life

Zörner came from an old Mansfeld mining family. After studying natural sciences and law, as well as political and national economics in Halle and Berlin , as well as at the mining academies in Berlin and Clausthal , he began working as a mining assessor at the Royal Prussian Mining Directorate in Saarbrücken in 1889 . In 1892 he went to the König mine in Neunkirchen as a mining inspector . In 1895 he became mine director and member of the Saarbrücken mine management . Here he headed the trade and traffic department of the Saargruben. In 1901 he was appointed Royal Prussian Secret Bergrat. In 1903 he became general director of the Humboldt Cologne-Kalk mechanical engineering institute . For years, Humboldt was the main supplier of machines and plants for processing ore in the Bensberg ore district .

He lived in Bensberg on Milchborntalweg, was married and had two sons, one of whom fell in Flanders in 1917 and the other in Russia in 1941.

Show mine

Since 1929, Zörner has set up the show mine that is still in existence today in the so-called turret house of the Bergisches Museum for Mining, Crafts and Trades . As a result, the collection of everyday exhibits that had been on display in the former washroom of the cadet institution , which was housed in Bensberg Castle until 1918, was also gradually moved to the tower house since 1930. From then on, the house was generally referred to as the Bensberg Local History Museum .

Awards

Fonts

  • Mining in the vicinity of Bensberg , in: Bergische Heimat, monthly magazine for people, nature and art, issue 4, 1929, p. 83 ff.
  • Mining and metallurgy in the Bergisches Lande , in: Rheinische Blätter, Heft 4, 1936, p. 210 ff.
  • The district home town in Bensberg, guide to the local history museum of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis , Verlag Pilgram, Hoffnungsthal 1938
The tombstone bears the mining mark Schlägel und Eisen at the top.
This is followed by the inscription:
Resting place of the Bergrat family Dr. General Director Zörner

Tombstone

The Zörner tombstone is on the northern edge of the campus Memoriae of the cemetery in Bensberg.

The tombstone of the Zörner family was cleared from the Bensberg cemetery in 1984 and given to the museum in Bensberg. In the period that followed, it was carelessly stored at the Birkerhof and was there in an outdoor depot under a mountain of old stones and beams. The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported on this on January 22, 1988. This led to popular protests. On January 3, 1989, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported that the stone had been returned to the cemetery. There it is on the so-called Campus Memoriae, surrounded by old tombstones that are listed as historical monuments .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Lückerath, Michael Werling : Der Bensberger Friedhof, Grabdenkmäler und Geschichte , Bergisch Gladbach 2014, p. 134 ff., ISBN 3-932326-72-5
  2. ↑ a b The Bergisches Geschichtsverein Overath reports retrieved on March 30, 2015
  3. ↑ Chronik der Heimat , in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1971, pp. 160 ff.
  4. ^ Andree Schulte, Bergisch Gladbach, city history in street names , published by the Bergisch Gladbach city archive, volume 3, and by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 11, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 295, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
  5. ↑ Gravestone is located under rubble, accessed on March 30, 2015

literature

  • Bergrat Zörner 75 years , in: Metall und Erz, Zeitschrift für Metallwesen und Erzbergbau including processing, 33rd year, issue 17, September 1936, p. 479 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Zörner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secret mountain ridge
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruckdorf
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1941
Place of death Bensberg