Carl Still

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Carl Still (* 2. August 1868 in Struthütten , † 8. August 1951 in Recklinghausen ) was a German mechanical engineering - engineering and business owners , who in the development of coking technology emerged.

Life

From 1882 to 1883 Still attended the mechanical engineering school in Betzdorf and from 1888 to 1890 the mechanical engineering school in Holzminden , from which he graduated with honors . After completing his studies, he first worked at the Baum machine factory in Herne and later went to the Dahlhausen- based plant engineering company Dr. C. Otto & Comp. After Still quickly reached his professional limits with his analytical approach, he set up his own engineering office. This led on May 1, 1898 establishing the company Carl Still in Recklinghausen.

In the founding year, he and his company implemented a large-scale test facility at the König Ludwig colliery in Recklinghausen.

In 1899 Still built a benzene production plant at the Lorraine colliery in Gerthe . In this way he managed to make a name for himself in the field of carbon recovery for benzene factories, raw gas condensations, ammonia factories and tar distillations in a very short time . In 1906, the Still company began building coke ovens . In this field, it achieved world fame through the development of new processes that made it possible to build ovens up to six meters high instead of the two-meter-high coke ovens that were previously used. This coking technique became known as System Still .

His scientific interest brought him into contact with physicists and mathematicians, so friendships developed with Max Born , Max Planck and Richard Courant . In 1943, Still offered Max Planck and his wife accommodation in his manor near Rogätz Castle , when their house in Berlin was no longer habitable due to bomb damage. The work of the mathematician Heinrich Behnke was financially supported by Still.

1918 Still was from the Technical University of Aachen , the honorary doctorate (h when Dr.-Ing. E..) Awarded. In 1929 he donated the Carl Still Prize , which was intended to encourage students at the Petrinum Recklinghausen grammar school in their scientific development.

After his death in 1951, his son Karl-Friedrich Still (* 1911) continued to run the now internationally operating group. After several company acquisitions and consolidations in the German steel industry in the 1980s, the Still family sold their company to the Thyssen Group .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description
  2. ↑ Ulrike Kohl: The Presidents of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism. Max Planck, Carl Bosch and Albert Vögler between science and power. Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08049-X , p. 58. ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Uta Hartmann: Heinrich Behnke (1898–1979). Between mathematics and its didactics. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58860-4 , p. 194. ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Carl Still Prize ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the high school @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.petrinum.de
personal data
SURNAME Still, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Strut huts
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1951
Place of death Recklinghausen