Carl-Justus Heckmann

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Carl-Justus Heckmann (born May 24, 1902 in Duisburg ; † October 7, 1993 in Leipzig ) was a German technical engineer and process engineer , company manager and university professor .

Life

Heckmann's father Reinhold was commercial director of the copper and brass works C. Heckmann , which his great-grandfather Carl Justus Heckmann had moved from Berlin to Duisburg in 1887 . His mother Amelie was the eldest daughter of Hermann Schumm, the technical director at the Deutz gas engine factory . Like his great-grandfather of the same name, he too wanted to become an engineer. After the pre-school of the humanistic grammar school in Duisburg, which he attended up to the lower secondary school , completed the other school years at the grammar school Adolfinum von Moers , where he passed his Abitur . He began his vocational training in the post-war years with a six-month internship at the Cologne-Deutz gas engine factory, where he worked in the molding shop , foundry and turning shop and got to know the assembly of marine engines .

This was followed by studies at the Technical University of Stuttgart with Professors Grammel and Regener . He also practiced fencing on the side . In 1925 he went to the Technical University in Breslau . There he took the subjects of heating systems , factory operation and chemical apparatus construction . In 1927 he acquired the degree of a graduate engineer . He then traveled to Paris and London to study language. In 1928 he visited the USA and Canada , where he got to know 45 industrial companies. In November 1928 he began his professional activity as a designer in the Berlin project planning office of F. Heckmann, Breslau-Berlin - founded in 1819 by his great-grandfather. In the years that followed, his company was fully occupied with the general development of large-scale chemical industry through new engineering developments.

With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Heckmann had to join the Wehrmacht as a Landwehr man . After a short time, however, he was able to return to his professional activity in Berlin. Heckmann reported that he won Professor Pöll from Vienna as an employee and, as a Jew, was able to protect him from being attacked by the Gestapo . In 1944 he began to publish his first articles in specialist journals , the number of which grew to around 40 by the 1960s. In January 1945, the Wroclaw factory equipment was evacuated from the approaching front with a special train of 60 wagons full of machines and 180 employees and moved to Nerchau , Riesa and Rudisleben .

After the liberation from National Socialism , the Soviet occupation authorities asked Heckmann and his employees to resume their work in the Soviet Zone . The new beginning took place in Wurzen with a small mechanical workshop and in Pirna with the apparatus construction. Heckmann reopened the old company in December 1945 under the name Heckmann-Apparate (Wurzen und Pirna GmbH) . In 1946, Heckmann became a member of the Chamber of Technology . With the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in the same year, a clear economic policy line became recognizable for him, so that in 1959 Heckmann took state participation in his company . For this, the VEB Leunawerke "Walter Ulbricht" was won as a partner. VEB Maschinen- und Apparatebau Grimma later took its place. In 1956, Heckmann gave a lecture at the Magdeburg University of Mechanical Engineering . In the field of chemical apparatus construction, he was to lead engineers for the upper level of this field of study. After a short time that became his main professional task. In the following years, 22 aspirants were awarded the Dr.-Ing. take the PhD A with him . Two others have with the Promotion B habilitation . They included students from the GDR, but also from other countries. As early as 1958 he was appointed director of the Institute for Chemical Apparatus and took on the planning and furnishing of a building for research and teaching at the Magdeburg University of Applied Sciences. During several decades of extensive and cooperative cooperation with industry-related companies at home and abroad, the Heckmann factory primarily supplied the Soviet Union with production systems for the heavy and processing industry there. In April 1959 he became a full professor and general partner with state participation. From 1962 to 1965 he was appointed to the Technical Advisory Board of the State Secretariat for Higher Education , and in 1963 he was appointed to the Senate of the university. In 1964 he became a professor with a chair in chemical apparatus engineering. From 1964 to 1966 he worked on the university's research council. From 1965 to 1967 he was appointed to working groups and expert groups of the Research Council and worked in the State Secretariat for Research and Technology in the Chemistry / Mechanical Engineering Commission. In 1965 he began working on the scientific advisory board of VVB Chemieanlagen and as deputy chairman of the "Chemical Apparatus Construction" group in the German Standards Committee , as well as a member of the Scientific Council of the Apparatus and Plant Construction Section of the Magdeburg University of Technology . In 1966 he was appointed chairman of the central working group "Heat and Material Exchange Technology".

In 1967 Heckmann retired . After 40 years of professional activity, Heckmann celebrated the 150th anniversary of his plant in 1969 together with around 700 employees. In 1972 the company, which had previously worked very efficiently, was transferred to public ownership.

On April 1, 1990, with Heckmann's consent, his former company, which had been publicly owned until then, was converted back into a private company.

In 1961 he took part in the 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly , which was organized by the Christian Peace Conference in Prague . He was elected to their advisory committee to continue the work. His brother-in-law Hans Joachim Iwand , a theologian of the Confessing Church and resistance fighter , had won him over for this collaboration.

Heckmann was married to Johanna Iwand, who came from Silesia . He had five children with her.

Honors

Aftermath

  • In 2002, on the occasion of his 100th birthday, an honorary colloquium was held at the Magdeburg Fraunhofer Institute . Building 15 of the Otto von Guericke University was renamed the Heckmann building .

Fonts

  • New world through technology , Stuttgart Kreuz-Verlag, 1954
  • 150 years of chemical apparatus and plant engineering , Pirna Heckmannwerk KG, [1969]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/uniarchiv/biographien/heckmann.pdf
  2. ^ GDR company: "We are an island in the country" . In: The time . No. 40/1990 ( online ).
  3. ↑ http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/unirep/UR2002/september2002/heckmann.html
personal data
SURNAME Heckmann, Carl-Justus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German process engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1993
Place of death Leipzig