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Paul Adolf Bamberg (born April 3, 1876 in Berlin; died 1946) was a German industrialist.
Life
[edit]Paul Adolf Bamberg was born the son of Carl Bamberg, a manufacturer of precision mechanics and optics. He attended secondary schools in Berlin, Eisenach and Coburg. After leaving school, he trained as a precision mechanic at the companies Max Hildebrand in Freiberg in Saxony and Carl Zeiß in Jena. He then studied natural sciences at the universities of Berlin, Munich and Strasbourg. In Munich, he became a member of the Corps Makaria in 1897.Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).In Strasbourg, he joined the Corps Palaio-Alsatia in 1898.[2] After completing his studies and subsequent longer trips abroad, he joined his father's factory Carl Bambergs Werkstätten für Präzisions-Mechanik und Optik, which he became the owner of in 1904. At the beginning of 1921, the company merged with Centralwerkstatt Dessau to form Askania Werke AG. Bamberg was appointed to the supervisory board of the new company and became its deputy chairman.
Paul Adolf Bamberg published numerous works on Saxon numismatics as well as family history treatises. He was a member of various scientific societies.
Awards
[edit]Paul Adolf Bamberg was awarded the Prussian Royal Order of the Crown, 4th class.
Writings
[edit]- Zwei wenig bekannte thüringische Pastoren-Medaillen, 1925 (Nachtrag 1927).
- Schaumünzen auf Carl Gottlieb Aster und das Ehepaar Georg Adolph Fischer, 1927.
- Schaumünze 1563 auf Cyriacus Schnauß in Coburg, 1928.
- Drei Pfarrer Johann Bamberg im Lande Weimar 1604–1708, 1931.
- Zur Münzgeschichte von Mansfeld, Magdeburg und Halberstadt, 1932.
- Schaumünzen auf Gothaer Personen, 1932.
- Der Blankenhainer Geburtsbrief Johann Georg Bambergs, dessen Vorfahren und Nachkommen, 1932.
- Münzsorgen der Stadt Gotha 1497, 1541 und 1549, 1933.
- Hieronymus Magdeburger, Peter Goldschmied und Jobst Leypold, 1934.
- Ein bisher unbekannter Berliner Münzmeister, Paul Blankenfelde 1510, 1935.
- Personen im Gebiete des Freiberger Bergbaues aus der Zeit von 1487 bis 1546, 1940.
- Beiträge aus sächsischen Archiven zur Münzgeschichte des Landes Braunschweig und seiner Städte, 1940.
- Die Münzmeister in Annaberg, 1942.
Literature
[edit]- Bamberg, Paul, Adolf. In: Robert Volz: Reichshandbuch der deutschen Gesellschaft. Das Handbuch der Persönlichkeiten in Wort und Bild. Band 1: A–K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB-IDN 453960286, S. 58–59.
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