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Gustav Wilhelm Richard Sorge (6 April 1852 – 1 December 1907) was a German mining engineer.
Sorge was the son of a surgeon who practiced in Schilda. His uncle was
Life
Sorge was the son of a surgeon who practiced in Schilda. His uncle was Friedrich Adolf Sorge
Friedrich Adolph Sorge (9 November 1828 – 26 October 1906) was a German communist political leader who emigrated to the United States, where he played an important role in the labor movement, including the foundation of the Socialist Labor Part ...
. He specialized in the field of coal mining in Wettin, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He studied mining conditions and material handling
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technology.
Convinced that coal mining prospects at the Wettin Coal Mine were poor, he changed his emphasis to oil exploration
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, studying for several years in the United States.
From there he traveled to the oilfields near Baku in 1877 to set up a drilling technology workshop for the ''Otto Lenz'' machine factory in Sabunçu, Baku
Sabunçu (also, Sabunchi and Sabunchy) is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 22,344.
History
Until the beginning of the 20th century, the Sabunçu region was producing 35 percent of Baku's oil. It was also ...
, concentrating on the field of deep drilling technology and the industrial equipment required for this purpose. In 1881 he founded his own company in his name.
He worked for Deutsche Petroleum-Aktiengesellschaft (DPAG) and the Caucasian oil company Branobel
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(of Robert, Ludvig
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and Alfred Nobel
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and others).
He married Nina Semyonovna Kobeleva, born in Baku on April 20, 1867, into a working-class family and became the father of the famous spy, Richard Sorge (1895-1944) along with eight other children.
After his health deteriorated and he lost his lucrative contract, the family moved to Berlin-Lankwitz in 1898. There he worked as a director for the Disconto-Gesellschaft which had founded the German-Russian Naphta Society. In 1900 he prepared a report on the Romanian oil industry.
Works
* ''Tiefbohrtechnische Studien über Ölgruben-Betrieb und Spülbohrung.'' Berlin, 1908. * ''The Theory of the Movement of the Flushing Streams in Bore Holes'' (Die Theorie der Bewegung des Spülstroms in Bohrlöchern). In: The Engineering Index Annual of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1969.See also
*Anton Raky
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(1868–1943), a pioneer in deep drilling and global oil exploration.
References
Bibliography
* . An early account by two leading British historians of the time. It is informed by their differing perspectives, Deakin being an authority on 20th century European history and Storry an authority on 20th century Japan. * Julius Mader: ''Dr.-Sorge-Report. Ein Dokumentarbericht über Kundschafter des Friedens mit ausgewählten Artikeln von Richard Sorge''. Militärverlag der DDR, Berlin 1986. * Joachim Mai: ''Das deutsche Kapital in Russland, 1850-1894''. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaft, Berlin 1970 (teilweise Habilitation, Universität Greifswald 1969). * ''Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte''. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1960. * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sorge, Gustav 1852 births 1907 deaths Engineers from Baku People from Baku Governorate People from the Province of Saxony People from the Kingdom of Prussia Mining engineers