Adolf Pirrung

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Adolf Pirrung (born July 13, 1878 in Bexbach / Pfalz, † April 14, 1965 in Ochsenhausen ) was a German engineer and electricity economist.

Life

Adolf Pirrung, one of eight children of Johann Jakob Pirrung (1845-1935), an owner of a leather tannery and a winery, attended high school in Landau. He studied mechanical engineering and electrical engineering at the TH Munich and the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg with a degree in electrical engineering . He was a member of the KDSt.V. Borusso-Saxonia Berlin in the CV .

He first worked for the municipal electricity company in Munich and the construction company for technical systems in Augsburg. From 1908, as a project engineer for the Stuttgart company Reisser, he had built around 50 power plants in southern Germany and founded numerous subsidiaries. After the First World War he was appointed to the board of Reisser-Elektrizitäts -versorgung-AG. In 1924 he switched to the Oberschwäbische Elektrizitätswerke (OEW) in Biberach an der Riss . In the 1920s, with the introduction of the basic price tariffs, it was groundbreaking for all of Germany. On April 10, 1933, OEW director Pirrung was "on leave until further notice" as an opponent of National Socialism. On April 1, 1939, the OEW merged with Elektrizitäts -versorgung Württemberg AG (EVW) and other special-purpose associations for Energy-Supply Schwaben AG (EVS).

During the Third Reich, he ran a successful expert office for the energy industry and the use of hydropower in Berlin. Here he was friends with Eugen Bolz , who was imprisoned in late 1944 and executed soon after.

Soon after the end of the war he was commissioned by the French to take care of the energy industry in their zone of occupation. Until his retirement in 1953, he was general director and chairman of the board of Energie -versorgung Schwaben AG, Stuttgart. From 1953 to 1965 he was a member of the supervisory board of Energie -versorgung Schwaben AG.

On April 5, 1946, he was a founding member of the CDU in the Biberach district. In 1948 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Biberach an der Riss , where a street is named after him.

In 1956 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in Cologne on December 8, 1956 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He belonged to the Ravensburg Commandery. He was later appointed Grand Officer of the Order.

He married Kunigunde Strohhöfer in Altötting in 1904 ; the marriage remained childless.

honors and awards

Publications

  • German electricity industry: According to e. on d. Annual meeting d. Commercial u. Industrial Advisory Councils d. German Center Party to Berlin on March 18, 1931. Lecture
  • Electricity tariffs: Investigations into the design of basic tariffs for small consumers ; 1932

literature

  • Rudolf Dzierzon: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eh Dipl.-Ing. Adolf Pirrung - A life for the electricity industry. 1970.
  • Fred L. Sepaintner: Baden-Württemberg biographies. i. A. of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg, ISBN 978-3-17-014117-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biberach-riss.de
  2. ↑ Kulturhof-alte-gerberei.de
  3. ↑ Baden-Württembergische Biographien, Volume 2, p. 352
  4. ^ German biographical encyclopedia, p. 678
  5. ↑ Institutions from the local community introduce themselves - Zweckverband Oberschwäbische Elektrizitätswerke. Municipal Day Baden-Württemberg, 2013, archived from the original on December 30, 2013 ; accessed on May 10, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Adolf Pirrung in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  7. ↑ J. Hösle: And what will happen now ?: Story of a youth ; P. 82
  8. ↑ cdu-biberach.de
  9. ↑ AAS 50 (1958), n.15, p. 756
personal data
SURNAME Pirrung, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and electricity economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Bexbach , Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1965
Place of death Ochsenhausen