Alfred Schack

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Alfred Schack (born June 10, 1895 in Eisenberg , East Prussia , † March 22, 1978 in Meerbusch ) was a German inventor and entrepreneur . In 1931 he founded Rekuperator KG Dr.-Ing. Schack & Co. in Düsseldorf.

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Schack was the son of the Protestant pastor Albert Schack and had 5 siblings. He attended high school and developed an interest in physics , mathematics and electricity while still at school .

From 1914 to 1918, Schack served as a volunteer at the front in the First World War . Shortly before the end of the war, he was captured and spent a year in English captivity. After his release he began to study physics at the Albertus University in Königsberg and from 1920 at the Technical University of Danzig . During the last semesters he was an assistant at the Physics Institute in Danzig, where he passed his diploma in technical physics in 1920 .

In 1922 Schack moved to Düsseldorf and one year later he became an employee of the warming department of the Association of German Ironworkers . In the same year he married Dorothea Schuhmacher. From this marriage there were three children.

His dissertation “On the radiation of fire gases and their practical implementation” was carried out in 1924. The core piece was the proof that the heat transfer in furnaces takes place neither through radiation nor through contact. This theory was strongly doubted by the experts at the time, a refutation was not possible, however, and Schack gained notoriety among experts.

In 1929 the basic work The Industrial Heat Transfer appeared. This first textbook aimed at the needs of a practical engineer was continuously revised and expanded in the following years.

On July 14, 1931, Schack founded the company Rekuperator KG Dr.-Ing. Schack & Co. with the support of Demag AG. After some initial difficulties caused by the economic depression, the Röchling-Werke commissioned him in 1935 to build a system that went down in the history of technology as the largest steel recuperator . Other important plants followed, including the world's first Siemens-Martin furnace with recuperator heating and in 1939 the world's first hot blast furnace .

Schack completed his habilitation in 1951 at the Technical University of Aachen and was a private lecturer there for more than 15 years . In 1959 he was appointed adjunct professor .

In 1970 Alfred Schack appointed his son Kurtreiner Schack as the sole managing director of his company. In 1995 the Rekuperator KG Dr.-Ing. Schack & Co. with Schmidt'schen hot steam company mbH to form SHG Schack GmbH . After Kurtreiner Schack resigned as managing director, the company is now active worldwide under the name Schmidtsche Schack - ARVOS .

literature

  • Rekuperator KG: 50 years of Rekuperator KG, Dr. Ing Schack & Co., Düsseldorf 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Schack: The industrial heat transfer: For practice and study with basic numerical examples . Stahleisen MBH, Düsseldorf 1969.
  2. ↑ Dr. Herbert Sinz: 25 years of recuperator K.-G. Dr.-Ing. Schack & Co. 1931-1956 . Ed .: Hoppenstedts Wirtschaftsarchiv GmbH. Darmstadt 1956.
  3. ↑ Rekuperator KG: 50 years of Rekuperator KG . Ed .: Dr. Ing Schack & Co. Düsseldorf 1981.
  4. ↑ Company history on the SCHMIDTSCHE SCHACK | website ARVOS GmbH. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ | of Schmidt's SCHACK site ARVOS GmbH. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schack, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German inventor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenberg
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1978
Place of death Meerbusch