Ehrhart Schott

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Ehrhart Schott (born July 31, 1879 in Heidelberg ; † April 19, 1968 there ) was a German chemist and entrepreneur .

Life

Ehrhart Schott, son of the chairman of the Portland Cement Works Heidelberg-Mannheim-Stuttgart A.-G Privy Friedrich Schott and the Emma born Fischer, high school graduate at the Humanities College in Heidelberg, devoted himself in the sequence from 1899 a mechanical engineering degree at the Technical University of Brunswick , then studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg before becoming a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . In 1899 he became a member of the Braunschweig Alemannia fraternity .

He took part in the First World War as a first lieutenant and battery leader and was awarded the Iron Cross .

Schott began his professional career in 1907 as director of the Portland cement works in Leimen , in 1910 he moved to the Portland cement works in Heidelberg as operations manager and director, and in 1917 he was appointed director and board member of the same company. In addition, he was appointed Vice President of the Heidelberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry. After Schott was dismissed from his office for political reasons in 1934, he set up a private chemical company despite difficulties with the National Socialist rulers . Due to his political attitude, despite his old age, he was sent to France to take part in the ski jumping hill in October 1944 . In 1945 Ehrhart Schott was called back to the management of the Portland-Cementwerke Heidelberg-Mannheim-Stuttgart A.-G, in 1954 he retired at the age of 75.

Ehrhart Schott has received numerous honors, including being made an honorary citizen of the community of Nussloch in the Rhein-Neckar district , being appointed honorary senator of the University of Karlsruhe, and being awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . In 2003 the trade school in Schwetzingen was renamed the Ehrhart Schott School.

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  1. Fraternity leaves . 80th year 1965, p. 174.