Adolf Goerz

Adolf Goerz ( born December 18, 1857 in Mainz, † June 28, 1900 in Giessbach in Switzerland ) was a large mine owner and banker in South Africa.

Life

Adolf Goerz studied at the Mining Academy Freiberg. In 1877 he became a member of Corps Saxo - Borussia Freiberg and later the Corps Teutonia Freiberg. In 1879 he completed his studies with a diploma examination. In 1888 he came where he settled in the emerging financial hub and gold mining town of Johannesburg Transvaal, South Africa, United mine owner and director of the National Bank of South Africa was.

Among his most important undertakings were:

• Adolf Goerez & Co Ltd, financial services ( with a branch in Berlin)
• New Rietfontain and Wittcopjes Gold Mining Company
• Crown Reef Gold Mining Company & Mayer
• Charlton Gold Mining Company
• Rand Central Ore Reduction Company

With his assets acquired there he engaged socially, especially in his native town of Mainz. So he donated 40,000 gold marks for Mainz Liedertafel and 300,000 marks for charitable purposes.

To it, inter alia Görzsiedlung Mainz returns, also referred to as Görzstiftung. The local Görzstraße is after him and his brother, the Judicial Council Friedrich Gorizia, named the chairman of the Building and Savings Association in Mainz was.

There is also the Adolf Goerz Foundation - an ecclesiastical foundation under public law, established in Mainz. Purpose of the Foundation is to promote the educational work of the Evangelical kindergartens in Mainz.