Carl Richard Petersen

Carl Richard Friedrich Wilhelm Petersen (born April 19, 1828 in Landau in the Palatinate , † March 20, 1884 in Eschweiler ) was a German engineer and chairman of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

Life

Carl Richard Petersen came from a family that produced clergy and civil servants over several generations. After attending school in Landau and Speyer, he studied law, first in Würzburg and later in Heidelberg . Since he was actively involved in the political unrest in the Palatinate, Petersen had to go into exile in France. During his stay in France, because of poor career prospects, he withdrew from law and turned to technical sciences, which he acquired as an autodidact. After working in the steel and rolling mill Quint near Trier and the Kölnische Maschinenbauanstalt in Bayenthal near Cologne, Petersen moved to Phoenix AG for mining and smelting operations in 1855 , where he first began as a draftsman, but was then employed as a production engineer. In 1859 he became the technical director of the Steinhauser Hütte in Witten , but three years later he moved to the Englerth & Cünzer machine factory in Pümpchen near Eschweiler as director of the ironworks . He stayed with this company until his death, in 1872 he was given the general management of the plants in Eschweiler.

In 1856 Petersen joined the Association of German Engineers. In 1860 he was a founding member of the Technical Association for Metallurgy, the predecessor of the Association of German Ironworkers . In 1868 and 1872 he was chairman of the Association of German Engineers. Petersen was one of the founders of the VDI district association Aachen.

Private life

Petersen had been married to Maria Förster since 1869, with whom he had four sons and two daughters.

Web links

Carl Richard Petersen in the German biography

Individual evidence

^ Affairs of the association . In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers . tape 1 , no. 1 , January 1857, p. 14 .
^ Marie-Luise Heuser , Wolfgang König : Tabular compilations on the history of the VDI . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 565 .
↑ Stefan Krebs: Genesis and structure of a technical science field. About the struggle of Aachen metallurgy for power and autonomy 1870–1914 . Dissertation. Aachen 2008, p. 39 .

personal data
SURNAME	Petersen, Carl Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Petersen, Carl Richard Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engineer and chairman of the VDI
DATE OF BIRTH	April 19, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH	Landau in the Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH	March 20, 1884
Place of death	Eschweiler

[1] Affairs of the association . In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers . tape 1 , no. 1 , January 1857, p. 14 .

[2] Marie-Luise Heuser , Wolfgang König : Tabular compilations on the history of the VDI . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 565 .

[3] Stefan Krebs: Genesis and structure of a technical science field. About the struggle of Aachen metallurgy for power and autonomy 1870–1914 . Dissertation. Aachen 2008, p. 39 .