Adolf Goerz
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Adolf Goerz (18 December 1857 in Mainz, Grand Duchy of Hesse - 28 July 1900 in Giessbach Switzerland)[1] was a German mining engineer who moved to areas in southern Africa under British control.[2] He emigrated to Cape Colony around 1888. He founded Adolf Görz & Co which later became the Union Corporation, which was one of the five original gold mining houses of South Africa.[3]
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ 'Deutsche Wanderung nach Südafrika im 19. Jahrhundert' by Werner Schmidt pp 175, 197, 215, 283, 287, 288, 326.
- ^ "South African Gold Rush: 1885". Archived from the original on 21 April 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
Categories:
- CS1 maint: archived copy as title
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from April 2022
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- 1857 births
- 1900 deaths
- Engineers from the German Empire
- Immigrants to the Cape Colony
- German mining engineers
- Emigrants from the German Empire
- Expatriates in Switzerland
- Businesspeople from Mainz
- All stub articles
- Mining stubs