| Hyman Herman | |
| Nationality: | British |
| Citizenship: | Australia |
| Birth Date: | 1875 8, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Bendigo |
| Death Place: | Melbourne, Australia |
| Discipline: | geologist and engineer |
Hyman Herman (August 16, 1875 – June 7, 1962) was a geologist and engineer, and was described as the 'father of Yallourn'. He was director of the Victorian Department of Mines and chair of the Government Brown Coal Advisory Committee. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Victorian State Electricity Commission taking a role as engineer for brown coal.[1]
Herman was born at Sandhurst (Bendigo) on 16 August 1875 to Polish father Solomon Herman from Konin, British mother Elizabeth, née Oxlake who migrated to Australia in 1864. He married Florence Leslie Ramsay Salmon 2 April 1902, had three daughters and died on 7 June 1962.
As chair of the Government Brown Coal Advisory Committee, which reported in September 1917, he recommended the establishment of an Electricity Commission to develop the brown coal reserves and construct a power station and transmission lines. In December 1918, a Bill was passed establishing the State Electricity Commission of Victoria.[2]
Gravel Hill State School (under scholarships),
Sandhurst Corporate High School,
Scotch College 1890,
D.Sc. (Melbourne, 1924) he submitted 'The Structure of the Bendigo goldfields',
University of Melbourne engineering 1891 -1896.
B.C.E., 1896
He was a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers and its president for the year 1914
for a photographic Portrait see Museum Victoria