Alfred Forstmeyer

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Alfred Forstmeyer (born January 17, 1902 in Rheinau near Mannheim ; † August 11, 1989 in Greding ) was a German homeland researcher , engineer and Ministerialrat .

Forstmeyer was born as the son of the pharmacist and chemist Eduard Forstmeyer from Freiburg and his wife Anna. Lieberich was born in Grünstadt in the Palatinate. He attended the secondary school in Mannheim, graduated from high school and studied telecommunications technology at the TH Karlsruhe . In August 1926 he was employed by Siemens and Halske at the Gartenfeld cable works. There he calculated the wide area network for Deutsche Post and calculated how crosstalk interference can be eliminated by capacitor compensation. Later he was head of technical development for other types of cables.

In 1933 he was taken over by the Army Weapons Office as a speaker. On October 1, 1935, he was promoted to government building officer, on December 16, 1938 to senior government building officer and on November 6, 1942 to Ministerialrat. As a long-distance specialist he took part in the France and Africa campaigns and was taken prisoner by the Soviets . During his mission in Africa, he set the VDE temperature of 50 degrees in the shadow of El Azitia . He came through the Sagan camp in the Gulag archipelago in Melechowo near Vladimir and had to work in the limestone quarry. He returned to Germany in August 1945 because of salt poisoning and the subsequent dystrophy. He received a certificate stating that he was ill and unable to work for life and went to his family in Wilhelmsdorf .

From 1949 to 1955 he was director of the Vogel cable works. 1955 followed the dismissal as a bourgeois element. He switched to Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen and built cable plants in Rastatt , Mannheim , Nuremberg and Gunzenhausen . In 1961 he applied to the BWB Koblenz and was commissioned to look for a place for the Bundeswehr electronics center. He then prepared the construction of WTD 81 in Greding and became its first director in 1961. At the end of 1967 he retired and turned to local research. In 1979 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Greding. He was buried in Bergfriedhof II in Greding.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Greding: Lecture on Forstmeyer . In: donaukurier.de . November 19, 2013 ( donaukurier.de [accessed March 6, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Obituary. (PDF) Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Greding: In the beginning there was mistrust . In: donaukurier.de . June 3, 2011 ( donaukurier.de [accessed March 6, 2018]).
  4. ^ Ernst Baumgartl: History of the city of Greding . tape 5 , 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Forstmeyer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher, engineer and Ministerialrat
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinau , Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1989
Place of death Greding