August Boerner
August Boerner (1884-1938)
1938 Obituary [1]
August Boerner, a prominent figure in the German metallurgical and mining industries, died suddenly on November 27, 1937.
Born at Emmerich (Rhine) in 1884, Herr Boerner studied economics at the Handelshochschule, Cologne, before becoming secretary to William Merton, the former director of the Metallgesellschaft, Frankfort. Subsequently, he was appointed to the board of the Metallbank and of the Metallurgische Gesellschaft, of which he was the London representative in the years before the war.
During the war, he was employed on the erection of new factories for the introduction of special processes, and afterwards was engaged in restoring the foreign interests of his company.
In 1929, after 18 years with the Metallgesellschaft, Herr Boerner became director of the Krupp works at Berndorf in Austria, and four years later he was appointed to a similar post with the Ballestrem concern, where he proved himself of great value.
Herr Boerner's success lay in his tact and his natural technical ability; his early death is a great loss to German industry.
He was elected a member of the Institute of Metals on March 8, 1926.