Rudolf Seidel (politician, 1862)

Rudolf Seidel (born August 23, 1862 in Hermsdorf , Waldenburg district , province of Silesia ; † January 7, 1937 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) was a German manager and politician ( DVP ).

Life

Rudolf Seidel was born the son of a mountain official. After attending the Realgymnasium, he learned the mountain subject at the University and the Bergakademie Berlin . In 1887 he became a mountain trainee in Breslau , then worked as a senior mining official and from 1895 worked as a smelter inspector in Gleiwitz . In 1897 he became mine and smelter director of the Aachener Hütten-Aktien-Verein Rothe Erde in Esch an der Alzette . After the company merged with Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (GBAG) in 1907 , he took on a board position in the newly formed stock corporation. In 1914 he became general director of the Lorraine and Luxembourg mining and blast furnace operations, which he managed until the end of the First World War . From 1915 he carried the title Kaiserlicher Bergrat.

Seidel, who had lost his position as General Director due to the Versailles Treaty , moved to Düsseldorf in 1920 and remained on the board of GBAG until he retired in 1926. In 1919 he joined the German People's Party (DVP), for which he was a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1921 to 1924 . From 1928 to 1936 he lived in Vaduz . He then moved to Bad Homburg, where he died a year later.

literature

• Office of the Prussian Landtag (ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag . Prussian publishing house, Berlin 1921, p. 305.

Web links

• Rudolf Seidel in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic