Theo Seifer

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Theo Seifer (* 8. September 1883 in St. Barbara in Trier , † 5. April 1946 in Hannover ) was a German entrepreneur , mechanical engineering - engineering and geologist , mainly the oil production in Lower Saxony devoted.

Life

Theo Seifer was born in the German Empire as the son of the mill entrepreneur Peter Ernst Seifer , called Wilhelm Seifer (1841-1923). He attended one of the grammar schools in Trier and Metz before he went to Berlin to the then Technical University of Charlottenburg to study mechanical engineering, chemistry and geology.

Until the First World War , Theo Seifer “paid particular attention to the German oil works in Alsace ”. There is no more detailed information about his work during the war, if one of his biographies says: A “terrible shortage of fuel and lubricating oils in the World War” brought the mechanical engineer and practical geologist to Hanover at the beginning of the Weimar Republic , after he had previously worked until 1919 "He managed the mill works in Trier and mines in Zinnwald , which he owned," in order to then "study and further develop the Lower Saxony oil region".

In 1920 Theo Seifer supposedly became a partner in the Elwerath union . According to the ... chronicle of an oil company (see literature), however, the lawyer Otto Falk and Seifer's father Wilhelm each acquired 50 Kuxe from the union in 1920 and then transferred the leadership of the union to Theo Seifer. According to this chronicle, Theo Seifer worked as a mine director from 1922 to 1946 .

Together with Theo Seifer, the Elwerath union acquired promotional concessions from the Hanover oil works , the company run by the merchant " Hermann Fiedler , Charlottenburg", which had acquired exploitation rights in the " Forstort Brand " between 1909 and 1910 , which were transferred to the Elwerath union in 1920. The concessions of "some other companies in Nienhagen " also went to the Elwerath union. As a result, Seifer's union acquired additional properties and secured the right to mine property. On Theo Seifer's initiative, the union was able to conclude an “oil production contract” for the forest location Brand with the Prussian state forest administration for a term of 30 years.

While previously other mining companies were only looking for oil at shallow depths in the crude oil deposits that were distributed around the later Hanover region and discovered up to then "in the disturbed mountains near the edge of the salt dome ", the Elwerath union, headed by Theo Seifer, sank up to 1000 meters and more , also pushed into undisturbed layers off the side of the salt dome and was able - with the aid of scientific geology - to tap into the previously unknown productive oil horizons of the marine Lower Cretaceous.

With the introduction of new drilling methods and shortening of the previously usual drilling times, Seifer achieved its first success in oil and gas production from the layers of the Lower Cretaceous in 1922 with the "EH 32" well. Soon other prospective areas of northwest Germany were opened up by the Elwerath union, which in 1931 founded the German oil refinery DEURAG together with the Preussische Bergwerks- und Hütten AG (Preussag) in Misburg for the purpose of raw processing .

Just a few months after the seizure of power by the National Socialists was Theo Seifer on 18 November 1933, the presentation of the Karmarsch Medal of Hannover Institute of Technology awarded.

The refinery was expanded in 1935 with a newly built plant for the production of lubricating oil ; the union “Neue Erdölraffinierie” ( NERAG ): “In the scientific thinning of the processing operations under the direction of Theo Seifer, other researchers in Germany also received new ideas.” But the systems built by 1937 on the branch canal of the Mittelland Canal to the Misburg harbor were already among the war-important ones Aspects and doubled in capacity by the beginning of the Second World War .

Even after the beginning of the war, NERAG continued to develop; The facilities of the - later - DEURAG-NERAG were bombed fourteen times in the course of the air raids on Hanover from May 1940 . After the heaviest attack on July 20, 1944, immediate reconstruction actions were forcibly carried out by prisoners of war and other concentration camp inmates in the summer of the same year, “the Misburg outer location of Neuengamme, which was built out of the ground ” .

Theo Seifer died almost a year after the end of the war during the British military government on April 5, 1946 in Hanover. After his death, the ownership of the companies he managed or owned, including the Wilh company, changed . Seifer & Cie , which was then continued as Ehranger roller mill by Seifer's heirs.

literature

  • Life and work of Mr. Theo Seifer , typescript , attachment to the letter to the members of the board of trustees of the Karmarsch memorial coin dated February 13, 1932
  • Announcements of the Hannoversche Hochschulgemeinschaft , issue 15, Berlin: 1934, p. 90f.
  • Fritz-Erdmann Klinger: The petroleum storage facility in the Brand Forest near Nienhagen (Hanover) (= The Forstort Brand Oil Field near Nienhagen (Hanover, Germany) ) (= Archive for Storage Research of the Prussian Geological State Institute , No. 70), Berlin N 4, Invalidenstrasse 44: [sales office of the] Prussian Geological State Institute. ISBN 978-3-510-96579-3 , 1939; Preview over google books
  • Helmut Fahrion (text), Karl-Heinz Grothe (design): The Elwerath union. Chronicle of an oil company 1866–1969 , (Ed.): BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH Hannover: Druckerei Grütter, 1987
  • Rainer Ertel (edit.), Antje Doll, Gunther Mühge (edit.): Theo Seifer / engineer, entrepreneur , in this: The bearers of the Karmarsch memorial coin. 1925 to 2011. A foray through German scientific and economic history , ed. from the Freundeskreis der Leibniz-Universität Hannover eV, Hannover: Verlag der Hahnschen Buchhandlung, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7752-6163-0 , p. 26f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oV : Seifer, Theo in the database Niedersächsische people (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the processing of 29 February 2012 last downloaded 25 July 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Rainer Ertel (edit.), Antje Doll, Gunther Mühge (edit.): Theo Seifer / engineer, entrepreneur , in this: The bearers of the Karmarsch memorial coin. 1925 to 2011. A foray through German scientific and economic history , ed. from the Freundeskreis der Leibniz-Universität Hannover eV, Hannover: Verlag der Hahnschen Buchhandlung, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7752-6163-0 , p. 26f.
  3. ↑ Entry on Seiferstrasse (Ehrang-Quint) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on August 11, 2017.
  4. ↑ Compare Petroleum: Journal for the entire interests of the petroleum industry and the mineral oil trade , Volume 5, issues 1–12, Industrieverlag von Hernhaussen K.-G., 1910, p. 28; Preview over google books
  5. ^ Archive for deposit research , volumes 31–40, Geological Service Berlin, 1925, p. 4; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ a b Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Deurag-Nerag. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 125.
  7. ↑ Kurt Pritzkoleit : Who Owns Germany? A Chronicle of Property and Power , Munich; Vienna; Basel: K. Desch, 1957, p. 528f .; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Seifer, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oil and gas geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Barbara near Trier
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1946
Place of death Hanover