Bruno Bruhn

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Bruno Bruhn (born March 9, 1872 in Sonderburg , Northern Schleswig ; † December 14, 1958 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German chemist and industrial manager.

Life

Bruhn visited the Katharineum in Lübeck . After graduating from high school, he studied chemistry and economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1892 he was in the Corps Hasso Borussia recipiert . As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1897 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . He then received commercial and technical training and took on various tasks in the chemical and cement industries, as well as the machine and steel industries. He was a member of the executive board of G. Polysius AG in Dessau for eleven years . For fifteen years he was on the board of directors and the supervisory board of the Fried company . Krupp in Essen. During the occupation of the Ruhr he was sentenced by a French court martial to a 10-year prison term, but was released from prison after just 7 months. He played a key role in the conclusion of the Western European steel cartel and the Franco-German trade agreement as well as the Avi agreements. He was a member of the supervisory boards of the steelworks association, the pig iron association and the shipbuilding steel office. From 1927 to 1930 he lived in New York City. After returning to Germany, he worked as a consultant to German entrepreneurs on issues relating to US industry and the financial sector. In 1936 he bought the villa of the Buchthal family in Berlin's Westend .

He took part in the First World War as a reserve captain and company commander. He was one of the founders of the Franco-German Study Committee .

Bruhn had a son Christoph Bruhn and four grandchildren. His grandfather was the administrative lawyer Christian August Thomas Bruhn , his niece 2nd degree was Johanna Quandt (née Bruhn).

Patents

  • US Patent 859166 (1906): Process for the Treatment of Blust-furnace Slags and other Silicate Mixtures for the Production of Cementitious Material therefrom.
  • U.S. Patent 1640528 (1927): Regulating Discharge from Containers.

Fonts

  • When does dry and when wet processing deserve preference in rotary kilns? 1909.
  • Experimental studies on the vapor tension at 0 ° C in aqueous solutions of sulfuric acid and sulfates. 1916.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Bruno Bruhn in the online version of the edition files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 32/122
  3. Dissertation: About some derivatives of benzylidene aniline and phenylanilidoacetic acid .
  4. Exhibition cat. "A crystal, hidden in a new objectivity: the discovery and renovation of Haus Buchthal in Berlin", AEDES Gallery, Berlin 2016