Association for mining interests in the Dortmund District Mining Authority

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Administration building in 1903, according to plans by Eduard lens built
Administration building around 1913
Title page of a special print from Glückauf magazine , 1909

The Association for Mining Interests in the Dortmund Upper Mining District , or Bergbau-Verein for short , with its seat in Essen , was constituted on December 17, 1858 (after a preparatory meeting on November 20, 1858) as a business association and interest group in the Dortmund Upper Mining District .

history

From the foundation to the First World War

The association was founded against the background of the severe economic downturn after 1857 . The sales crisis of the 1860s intensified the demands for protective tariffs. After long internal discussions, the association contradicted the idea of ​​imposing an import duty on coal. The expansion of the railway network and the standardization of transport tariffs were initially more important for the association. The association took a strictly anti-union stance towards its employees, as had already been demonstrated by the miners' strike of 1872 . He then pleaded for the restriction of the right of association. Subsequently, too, the association stuck to this course, as demonstrated by the defense against the miners' strike of 1889 . The extremely rigid stance of the association isolated the association, for example during the miners' strike of 1905, even among employers and in public. The colliery association was founded in 1908 as an employers ' association in the vicinity of the association . The uncompromising attitude towards the workers was shown again during the miners' strike of 1912 .

In 1893 the Rheinisch-Westfälische Kohlen-Syndikat was founded, which achieved the goals of production and market control more effectively and curtailed its functional area.

From the First to the Second World War

During the First World War and later, the association again took on many organizational functions. In particular in the field of raw material management, he took on sovereign tasks. He was a central point of contact for the recruitment and allocation of workers.

After the war, the association concentrated again on its mining and economic tasks, especially during the wave of rationalization in the second half of the 1920s.

Because of its technical and scientific importance of the mining association lived after the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler in 1933 further by the 22 December 1934 Regional Group Ruhr as a specialized agency of the Economic Group Mining was established to represent the economic interests of the mining industry with the leading members of the association in the new governing bodies .

Ruhr Mining Association and Coal Mining Association

After the end of the Second World War , the Allies suspended the mining association on July 11, 1945. On May 15, 1952, the Ruhr Mining Association (UVR) was formed . On December 8, 1952 , the mining companies of the Ruhr area and the Aachen and Lower Saxony coal mines founded the Coal Mining Association (Stbv) , which resumed the technical and scientific research work of the former mining association. The old association for mining interests was reactivated on December 9, 1958 for asset management of various mining community organizations.

politics

The mining association financed and promoted extremely nationalist organizations during the Weimar Republic . The Hugenberg Group was financed by the trade association for the promotion of intellectual reconstruction forces. The all-German association , whose founding father was Alfred Hugenberg , and Deutschehilfe were also financed by the mining association. The right-wing Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung was also financially controlled by the mining association. The NSDAP was also supported. On September 20, 1932, the Ruhr mining liaison to the NSDAP, August Heinrichsbauer , wrote to Gregor Strasser that leading mining industrialists had campaigned for Hitler as Reich Chancellor. Heinrichsbauer wrote literally:

"That very authoritative gentlemen of the Revier campaigned very strongly in crucial Berlin offices that one entrust the Reich Chancellery to Mr. Hitler"

On January 29, 1933, one day before the seizure of power , the Deutsche Bergwerks-Zeitung wrote:

"The economy must be concerned that the strength gathered in the National Socialist movement, which not least represents a good part of enthusiastic German youth, is finally made usable for work on the state."

At the secret meeting of February 20, 1933 , at which German industrialists made available an election fund of 3 million Reichsmarks to the NSDAP and the combat front Schwarz-Weiß-Rot , Ernst Brandi and Hans von und zu Loewenstein participated as representatives of the mining association . The mining association contributed 600,000 Reichsmarks to this election fund.

Club facilities

The association's journal was called Glückauf - Berg- und Hüttenmännische Zeitschrift . Its first year appeared in 1865. Since then, several other specialist journals from the mining sector have been absorbed into it.

Today the association is, among other things, a partner in the Glückauf publishing house in Essen and the Glückauf housing company (now: Viva-West Wohnen GmbH), founded in 1951, originally based in Lünen-Brambauer .

Club management

Chairperson

(all chairmen were also chairmen of the mining association )

executive Director

literature

  • Stefan Przigoda: Business associations in the Ruhr mining industry. On the history of the mining association and the colliery association 1858-1933. German Mining Museum, Bochum 2002, ISBN 3-921533-86-4 . (also dissertation, Ruhr University Bochum, 2002)
  • Hans Meis: The Ruhr mining industry through the ages. Essen 1933. (Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the association)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr . Verlag Langewiesche Nachhaben, Königstein im Taunus, 6th edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 , p. 63.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Archives in North Rhine-Westphalia: Holdings 16 Association for Mining Interests (Mining Association), Essen (accessed on November 27, 2015)
  3. ^ Toni Pierenkemper : Trade and Industry in the 19th and 20th Century. Munich 2007, p. 79 f.
  4. ^ Toni Pierenkemper: Trade and Industry in the 19th and 20th Century. Munich 2007, p. 85 f.
  5. ↑ Henry Ashby Turner : The Big Entrepreneurs and the Rise of Hitler . Berlin 1985, p. 364.
  6. ^ Joachim Petzold: The demagoguery of Hitler fascism . Berlin 1982, p. 373 ff.
  7. ↑ Deutsche Bergwerks-Zeitung, No. 25, January 29, 1933. Quoted from Klaus Wisotzky: Der Ruhrbergbau in the Third Reich . Düsseldorf 1983, p. 20.