Rudolf Berg (industrialist)

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Rudolf Berg (born May 26, 1881 in Eveking ; † March 6, 1955 there ) was a German industrialist.

Life

Rudolf Berg was the son of the Westphalian industrialist Carl Berg . After graduating from high school, he studied engineering at the Technical University of Munich , the Technical University of Karlsruhe and the Technical University of Charlottenburg . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Corps Saxonia . After graduation, he traveled to the United States in 1905 for further training . In 1906 he became technical director of Carl Berg AG in Eveking and in 1927 a technical board member of Berg-Heckmann-Selve AG , from which the United German Metalworks emerged in 1930 through the takeover of Heddernheimer Kupferwerk and Süddeutsche Kabelwerk AG .

Berg was also a board member of Kugel & Berg GmbH in Werdohl, chairman of the supervisory board of Altenaer Eisenbahn- AG and a member of the administrative board of Kupferwerke Böhmen in Prague. He was a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

During the First World War he served as Rittmeister of the Reserve in the Guard Dragoon Regiment 23 from 1914 to 1917 . Awards he received were the Iron Cross II. Class and the Hessian Medal of Bravery .

Berg was married to Ilse Freiin von Puttkamer from 1917 , with whom he had two daughters. In 1953, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Carl Berg AG , he handed over a selection archive of business and private events to the Westphalian Economic Archive Foundation .

literature

  • Berg, Rudolf. 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. 110.
  • Berg, Rudolf. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 159.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckhard Trox: Triumph of the luxury class. Selve, Maybach and the engine building traditions in the south of Westphalia. Lüdenscheid 2004, ISBN 3-929614-51-0 , p. 82.
  2. ↑ Stahl und Eisen 75, April 7, 1955, No. 7, p. 444.
  3. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 221.
  4. ↑ Vereinigte Deutsche Metallwerke AG, Carl Berg branch , inventory F 25 of the Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv foundation at www.archive.nrw.de
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Eveking
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1955
Place of death Eveking