Wilhelm Esser (Metallurgist)
Wilhelm Esser (born May 16, 1878 in Duisburg-Hochfeld , † January 25, 1932 in Duisburg ) was a German metallurgist and manager of the steel industry.
Life
Born as the son of the hut director Wilhelm Andreas Hubert Esser (1846–1930) and Fanny Clara b. Schneider, Wilhelm Esser studied metallurgy at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and became a member of the academic association "Eisenhütte", later the Corps Montania Breslau . After completing his studies, he took on various assistant positions in the metallurgical industry. In 1907 he was given the management of the Differdingen steelworks of the German-Luxembourgish Mining and Hütten-AG . In 1910 he switched to the Rheinische Stahlwerke in Duisburg-Meiderich as technical director and member of the board . Under his leadership, the Meiderich steelworks became a technically highly modern large-scale operation with integrated raw material and refining operations. After the founding of the United Steel Works , he was a member of the board of directors of the Ruhrort-Meiderich Hüttenwerke , which was created by the merger of the Rheinische Stahlwerke and Phoenix AG , which he formed into a large company technically integrated in the supply of raw materials, energy and steel production. When the Meiderich plant had to close in 1932 at the height of the global economic crisis , Esser committed suicide .
Esser was a member of the supervisory board of Schorch-AG in Rheydt , Thyssen Eisen- und Stahl-AG and Thyssen-Rheinstahl AG . He was also a member of the port advisory board of Duisburg-Ruhrorter Häfen -AG. He was also a deputy member of the General Board of the Metallurgy and Rolling Mill Trade Association and a member of the Board of Section II:
For the interests and goals of the iron and steel industry, he was involved in the Association of German Ironworkers and as a member of the board of trustees of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Iron Research . He was Catholic and married to the industrialist daughter Edith Falkenhahn.
Awards
- Dr.-Ing. E. h. of the Technical University of Wroclaw , 1922
literature
- Esser, Wilhelm. 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. 404.
- Esser, Wilhelm. 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. 571.
- Hugo Racine: Esser, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p 658 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 65.
- ^ Hüttenwerke Ruhrort-Meiderich (HRM) on www.industriedenkmal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Esser, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German metallurgist and manager of the steel industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg-Hochfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1932 |
| Place of death | Duisburg-Hochfeld |