Emil Wood
Emil Holz (born April 10, 1840 in Stuttgart , † November 4, 1915 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German metallurgical engineer and industrialist. For more than two decades he worked in management positions at the Witkowitz ironworks .
Life
Emil Holz studied metallurgy at the Stuttgart Polytechnic and became a member of the Stauffia Corps . In 1861 he went to the Bergakademie Leoben with Peter Tunner for a year . In 1862 he passed the state examinations for mining, metallurgy and saltworks in Stuttgart. After practical work in the Königsbronn and Itzelberg plants of the Königliche Hüttenwerk Wasseralfingen , he passed the second state examination in June 1863.
He had his first employment in private industry at the Prague iron industry company in Kladno , from 1865 at the von Roll'schen Eisenwerke in Solothurn as director of the Choindez blast furnace and from 1867 at the Jünkerath trade union in Düsseldorf under Carl Poensgen . In 1870 he became the director of the construction and operation of the blast furnace works at Bethel Henry Strousberg's Dortmunder Hütte . After switching to the blast furnace plant of Sächsische Eisenindustrie AG in Pirna in 1872 , he became head of the Dillenburger Adolfhütte from Frank & Giebeler in 1875.
In 1878 he entered the service of the Witkowitz ironworks in Mährisch-Ostrau under Paul Kupelwieser . Initially head of the blast furnace, he became deputy general director and, in 1893, general director as successor to Kupelwieser. Holz built the Witkowitz ironworks with over 10,000 employees into the largest industrial company in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . He was the first to introduce the smelting of gravel burns, which he specifically produced in an ancillary facility of the ironworks. He isolated ammonia and benzene as valuable substances from the smoke from the coker . By introducing the combined process, he was able to significantly increase the profitability of steel production. After pre-blowing the liquid pig iron in the Bessemer pear, the steel making in the Martin furnace was completed. He expanded the ore base of the iron and steel works by acquiring the mining fields of Rudobanya-Telekes, the Kotterbacher-Poracser mines in Upper Hungary and the Koskullskulle-Gellivara in Sweden. His social commitment was to the welfare institutions and the care of the employees of the Witkowitz ironworks.
In 1901, Holz resigned as general director and moved to Berlin, from where he devoted himself to his family businesses and remained active in an advisory capacity. His son-in-law was the iron industrialist Wilhelm Hegenscheidt (1861–1895) in Ratibor .
Awards
- Awarded an honorary doctorate from a Dr.-Ing. E. h. of the Technical University of Stuttgart, 1910
- Awarded the Carl Lueg Medal by the Steel Institute VDEh , 1910
literature
- Alfons Perlick : Wood, Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 567 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Rainer Slotta : Masterpieces of mining art and culture in the German Mining Museum - No. 125, gift from the Witkowitz Mining and Ironworks Union to its outgoing general director Emil Holz (with biography of Emil Holz)
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Heydt: Chronicle of the Corps Stauffia zu Stuttgart , 1960, p. 28
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wood, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German metallurgical engineer and industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1915 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Charlottenburg |