Carl Dichmann
Carl Dichmann (born January 12, 1859 in Riga , Livonia Governorate , † November 20, 1937 in Inowrocław , Poland ) was a German-Baltic iron smelting expert .
Dichmann attended high school in Riga and studied commercial science and chemistry at the local polytechnic . He worked first in a chemical factory in Riga and then mainly in steel works in Poland as an assistant, works manager and finally in setting up new steel works according to the Bessemer and Siemens-Martin processes . From 1899 to 1905 he was responsible for the steelworks in Jurjiwka in southern Russia, where he further developed the Bertrand-Thiel process from 1894/95 so that the steelworks were operated with liquid pig iron from a blast furnace. From 1905 he was a consulting engineer at steelworks in Gliwice , and then went back to Jurjiwka as general director, which he remained until 1907. He was a consulting engineer in Riga, from 1912 to 1918 head of the B. Hantke steel works in Częstochowa , then chief chemist at a machine factory with an iron foundry in Poznan and from 1928 to 1930 chief chemist at the Milowitz ironworks in Sosnowitz, Upper Silesia .
In 1911 he received the Karl Lueg medal.
Fonts
- The basic hearth furnace process. Springer, 1910 (2nd edition 1920, also translated into English and Italian, Archive.org ).
literature
- Winfried Pötsch u. a .: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch 1989.
Web links
- Hugo Racine, NDB 1957
- Literature by and about Carl Dichmann in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dichmann, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic iron smelting expert |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga , Livonia Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1937 |
| Place of death | Inowrocław |