Wilhelm check

Wilhelm Eduard Jodokus Wheaton Scheck (born April 15, 1877 in Hofgeismar , † after 1931) was a German engineer, mining manager and timber industrialist.

Life

Wilhelm Scheck, son of the Upper Government and Forestry Council and former forest and agricultural attaché at the German Embassy in Washington, DC A. Scheck, attended the Progymnasium in Hofgeismar and the Wilhelmsgymnasium Kassel . After graduating from high school in 1897, he first went to the Eisenbahneleve in Kassel, then began studying engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart , but immediately interrupted his studies to do his military service as a one-year volunteer with the Dragoon Regiment No. 5 "Freiherr von Manteuffel" in Hofgeismar afford to. He then became a reserve officer in the Schleswig-Holstein Dragoon Regiment No. 13 in Metz . From 1899 to 1902 he continued his studies at the Technical University of Hanover and became a member of the Corps Macaro-Visurgia Hanover . In 1900 he attended the World Exhibition in Paris . In 1902 he moved to the Technical University of Dresden , where he completed his studies in 1903, followed by practical workshop training and initial commercial training at the Jolly ironworks in Wittenberg , the Beck & Henkel company in Kassel and the Herkuleswerke GmbH in Kaufungen .

In 1904 Scheck went to the United States , where he first attended the Louisiana Purchase Exposition . In 1905 he received a bank training in Saint Paul (Minnesota) as well as with various companies in the American wholesale sector . From 1906 to 1912 he opened a mine for tungsten extraction in Spokene, Washington State , the Germania Mine, which he expanded until 1912, and became a partner as President and General Manager of the American Tungsten Consolidation Corporation in Spokene. With the outbreak of the First World War he returned to Germany in August 1914 and was initially as a patrol officer Rittmeister of the Landwehr cavalry in the Reserve Cavalry Division 51. Later he was adjutant of the 51st Reserve Infantry Division, then adjutant of the corps General Commands for Special Use No. 62 and economic officer in Kiev. In 1916, all of his US property was confiscated as enemy property.

After the end of the war he turned to the development and consolidation of the lignite deposits in the Hohe Rhön on both the Prussian and Bavarian sides and became mine director and chairman of the mining board of the Sankt Barbara union based in Kassel and Munich. In 1920 he founded the Helsa woodworks and in 1922 the Nord-West-Holz GmbH , wood wholesaler, sawmill, wood pipe construction, in Kassel, where he became managing director and later chairman of the supervisory board. He also ran an engineering office and a chemical laboratory to carry out scientific work in Munich.

Until 1926, Scheck was first chairman of the Northwest German Association for the Timber Trade and Industry in Kassel. He was also a member of the board of the Central Association of Associations of German Wood Interested Parties in Berlin and the wood specialist group in the Reich Association of German Industry . He was also a board member of the Lower Saxony-Kassel Business Association and a deputy board member in Section VIII of the North German Wood Trade Association . In April 1929 he became an advisor and shop steward for an Amsterdam financial institution and issuing house for industrial bonds. He was a member of the VDI , Munich District, the Deutsches Museum and the Hanover University Association .

Awards

• Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class
• Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
• Iron crescent
• Bulgarian Order of War Merit

Fonts

• Calculation in the wood industry
• Organization of the sawmill industry into purchasing interest groups and sales groups
• Business organization and business improvements in the sawing industry

literature

• Check, Wilhelm, Eduard, Jodokus, Wheaton. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1616.
• Check, Wilhelm Eduard Wheaton. 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. 1933.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 186.