Carl Knott

Carl Knott (born June 16, 1892 in Munich ; † November 13, 1987 there ) was a German engineer and manager .

Life

Knott passed his school leaving certificate at the Oberrealschule in Munich in 1911 and was accepted as a military fox in the Corps Germania immediately after receiving it. Then he joined the 1. Royal Bavarian as a one-year volunteer . Foot Art.-Rgt. and then began studying electrical engineering at what was then the TH Munich . The studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914, followed by four years of military service on the Western Front, most recently as lieutenant and battery leader of a mortar battery.

After the war, Knott resumed his studies and graduated in 1920. He gained his first professional experience as a designer at Siemens-Schuckert-Werken (SSW) in Nuremberg. He then became the first assistant at the chair for electrical engineering (at that time Professor Ossanna) at the Technical University of Munich, where he also passed his doctorate in 1924. from. In 1925 Knott married the first German graduate engineer, Ilse ter Meer (1899–1996); the marriage gave birth to two sons.

Knott worked for the company Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co. in Aachen until 1929, most recently as technical director, after which his professional path led him back to the Siemens-Schuckert works, first in the mining department in Berlin, then as plant manager Erlangen and Nuremberg. In 1950, Knott gave up the management of the three Nuremberg plants and took over the management of the central plant administration in Erlangen. In this role he was responsible for all global production sites on the SSW board.

Awards

• Honorary Senator of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Honorary Counselor of the Conseil International de l'Organisation Scientifique
• Bavarian Order of Merit
• Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Medal Bene Merenti of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

Memberships

• Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Landesgewerbeanstalt Bayern (1942–1945) [1]
• German Atomic Energy Commission (founding member)
• Administrative board of the German Atomic Forum
• Bavarian Commission for the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Forces
• Rationalization Board of German Business (President from 1955 to 1963)
• Bavarian Academy of Sciences

literature

• Hans Herpich, Monumenta Germaniae II, memorial sheets of the Corps Germania zu Munich, Ingolstadt 1968