Carl Arnhold

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Robert Carl Arnhold , also Karl Robert Arnhold , (born December 18, 1884 in Elberfeld , † October 5, 1970 in Witten ) was a German engineer and university professor .

Life

He came from a family of craftsmen and was born as the son of insurance officer Carl Arnhold and his wife Lydia Charlotte née Schäfer in Elberfeld.

After attending primary and secondary school, Carl Arnhold completed a practical year and then went to the Royal Higher Mechanical Engineering School and the Technical University. He became a designer and production engineer. He returned from the First World War in 1920 as a first lieutenant in the reserve and actively fought against the Spartakusbund . In 1923 he was betrayed into French solitary confinement for sabotage. He served his imprisonment in Düsseldorf and Mainz .

In 1925 he founded the German Institute for Technical Work Training (DINTA), which he managed himself. This institute was incorporated into the German Labor Front (DAF) in 1933 . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP .

From 1935 to 1940 Carl Arnhold headed the Office for Labor Management and Vocational Education of the German Labor Front. Subsequently, until the end of the Second World War he was general advisor for vocational education and performance improvement in the Reich Ministry of Economics .

Arnold was a board member of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and headed the Reichswirtschaftsmuseum in Düsseldorf . He also held a teaching position for organizational business design at the Technical University of Aachen .

After the end of the war he was interned for two years. He then appeared in public through lectures and consultations and in 1953 took over the management of the wood technical school in Bad Wildungen .

Honors

The Technical University of Dresden appointed him Dr.-Ing. hc and awarded him an honorary professorship in 1936.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Berlin 1935, p. 35.
  • Fiedler Martin: Carl Arnhold (1884–1970) , in: Weber, Wolfhard (ed.): Engineers in the Ruhr Area (= Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien, Vol. 17), Münster 1999, pp. 318–343.

Individual evidence

  1. German-speaking psychologists 1933–194, 2017, p. 14f.