Arthur Tix

Arthur Tix (born December 16, 1897 in Darmstadt , † February 7, 1971 in Mainz ) was a German industrialist.

Life

Arthur Tix was born on December 16, 1897 in Darmstadt. As a young artillery officer, he took part in the First World War. Tix then studied mechanical engineering, technology and materials science at the TH Darmstadt and became a member of the Corps Franconia Darmstadt . In 1922 he took up a position as an assistant at the Bochum association . In 1929 he became operations manager and in 1934 operations director of the rolling mills. In 1939 he became the head of all warming operations of the BVG, supplemented by the post of chairman of the board of Hanomag in Hanover from 1942. From April 1942 to September 1943 he was chairman of the main committee arms and military economics leader . Albert Speer wanted to use him as a works representative at Krupp in 1943 .

In the Nuremberg Trial of the Allies against the industrial elite he was one of the defendants. After the end of the Second World War , he was a member of the board of the Osnabrück steelworks from 1947 to 1950 , before returning to the Bochumer Verein as technical director.

Honors

July 1944: Knight's Cross for War Merit Cross with Swords
1957: Robert W. Hunt Medal (first award to a German)
1959: Honorary Senator of the TH Darmstadt
1963: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for the introduction of the vacuum casting and the LD process
1965: Carl Lueg commemorative coin
Dr. Ing. E. H. the TH Clausthal

literature

Michael Weeke: 40th anniversary of the death of Arthur Tix - a size of the steel industry in Bochum , WAZ.de, February 7, 2011.
Andreas Zilt: Historical innovation research - the introduction of the oxygen steel process in West Germany . In: Manfred Rasch, Dietmar Bleidick (Ed.) History of technology in the Ruhr area / History of technology for the Ruhr area. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2004, ISBN 3-89861-376-3 , p. 721 f.
Arthur Tix , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 12/1957 of March 11, 1957, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 106.
↑ Werner Abelshauser : Armaments smiths of the nation? The Krupp concern in the Third Reich and in the post-war period 1933 to 1951. In: Lothar Gall (Hrsg.): Krupp in the 20th century. The history of the company from the First World War to the establishment of the foundation. Siedler, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-88680-742-8 , p. 436
↑ Maier, Helmut / Zilt, Andreas / Rasch: 150 years of VDEh selection chronicle. In: 150 years of VDEh selection chronicle. Manfred, 2010, accessed July 25, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tix, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German industrialist and engineer in the coal and steel industry
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH	7th February 1971
Place of death	Mainz

[1] Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 106.

[2] Werner Abelshauser : Armaments smiths of the nation? The Krupp concern in the Third Reich and in the post-war period 1933 to 1951. In: Lothar Gall (Hrsg.): Krupp in the 20th century. The history of the company from the First World War to the establishment of the foundation. Siedler, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-88680-742-8 , p. 436

[3] Maier, Helmut / Zilt, Andreas / Rasch: 150 years of VDEh selection chronicle. In: 150 years of VDEh selection chronicle. Manfred, 2010, accessed July 25, 2017 .