Robert Emil Caro

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Robert Emil Caro (born October 31, 1885 in Breslau , † February 26, 1974 in Orange , California ) was a German metalworker.

family

Robert Emil Caro came from an old Jewish industrial family. His father was the iron and steel industrialist Oscar Caro (1852–1931), his grandfather the Kommerzienrat Robert Caro (1819–75) and his great-grandfather the founder of the iron wholesale company MJ Caro in Breslau Moritz Caro.

His uncles were the industrialist Georg von Caro , the composer Paul Caro (1859–1914) and the writer Carl Caro (1850–1884).

Life

Robert Emil Caro studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Danzig from the winter semester 1904 to the summer semester 1907 . In 1905 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Danzig . He then received his commercial and technical training at the Baldonhütte ironworks in Katowice, at Oberschlesischen Eisenindustrie AG in Gleiwitz and at Mecfarlane & Robinson Ltd. in London. From 1912 to 1914 he was an authorized signatory at Deutsche Eisenhandel AG in Berlin. In 1914 he joined as a shareholder in the company Coutinho & Co. in Hamburg, the later company Coutinho, Caro & Co. , a leading German companies in the iron export trade, one. He took part in the First World War from 1915 to 1918 as a Landsturmmann. In 1925 he moved to the supervisory board of Coutinho, Caro & Co. 1927 he founded Spezialbronce GmbH as managing partner . He also took over the Herczka tube factory in Vienna, which was renamed the Caro tube factory .

Robert Emil Caro was co-owner of the family company MJ Caro & Sohn , member of the supervisory board of Linke-Hofmann-Busch-Werke in Berlin and AG Charlottenhütte in Niederschelden in Westphalia.

After the National Socialist seizure of power, he emigrated to the USA in mid-1933. In July 1934 he laid down his corps band.

literature

  • Caro, Robert. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 262.
  • Hans Nehlep (Ed.): Album Academicum des Corps Baltica-Borussia Danzig 1860-1970. Berlin 1973.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPJX-6CM
  2. ↑ Alfons Perlick :  Caro, Oscar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 153 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Caro, Robert Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German metal industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1974
Place of death Orange , California