Emil Schenck

Emil Schenck (born November 8, 1868 in Fulda ; † November 12, 1957 in Darmstadt ) was a German engineer and manufacturer .

Life

Emil Ludwig Stephan Schenck was born as the son of the Prussian officer Ferdinand Schenck (1831-1919) and his wife Marie. Brandis (1838–1908) born in Fulda. A few years later the family moved to Darmstadt. Emil attended the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt from 1877 to 1886 , where he graduated from high school in the spring of 1886. He then studied mechanical engineering at the TH Karlsruhe and the TH Charlottenburg . 1888 became a member of the Corps Franconia Karlsruhe . After graduating, he worked for three years at the machine tool factory formerly Joh. Zimmermann in Chemnitz . In 1894 his uncle Carl Schenck (1835–1910), whose only son Ludwig had died in 1893, took him on as a managing partner in the iron foundry and machine factory Carl Schenck AG in Darmstadt. Together with Georg Büchner , who married Marie Luise Therese Schenck, the youngest daughter of Carl Schenck, Emil Schenck determined the fate of the company over the next few decades.

In the 1920s and 1930s in particular, Schenck worked very closely with the Technical University of Darmstadt and, in particular, with the materials testing institute under the direction of Otto Berndt and his successor August Thum . The main focus was on the development of materials testing and the introduction of vibration engineering methods. For his services in these areas he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the TH Darmstadt in 1928.

He also earned great services in industrial vocational training. As early as the beginning of the 1920s, he developed guidelines for training and testing, which were the basis for further development in this area in Darmstadt and beyond.

Since 1911 he has been on the advisory board of the Darmstadt Chamber of Commerce. From 1920 to 1933 he was President of the Darmstadt Chamber of Commerce. During his tenure in 1929, the IHK acquired its own building for the first time at Wilhelminenstrasse 32. From 1932 to 1934 Emil Schenck was a member of the main board of the Association of German Engineers.

From 1912 to 1935 he worked as a commercial judge at the Chamber for Commercial Matters in Darmstadt. On March 31, 1936, at the age of 67, he retired from the management of Carl Schenck GmbH. After the American army marched into Darmstadt at the end of March 1945, he took over the office of IHK President again in May 1945, as the initially proposed Wilhelm Köhler only wanted to run for the office of deputy. However, he only held this office until June 4, 1945, when he resigned. Wilhelm Köhler was then elected as his successor. Schenck was then elected honorary president of the IHK.

Schenck was married to Christina Olga Weigt (1896–1974), who came from Chemnitz.

Emil Ludwig Stephan Schenck was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: IV C 87).

Awards

• 1928: Honorary doctorate from TH Darmstadt
• 1953: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

• 1917: Kriegerheimstätten, Darmstadt.
• 1938: Simprecht Schenck. The life picture of a Swabian reformer, Darmstadt.
• 1946: On the development and growth of the Carl Schenck factory, Darmstadt.
• 1952: Jörg Mager, the German pioneer of electro music research for memory, Darmstadt.
• 1960: Carl Schenck. A pioneer of car construction, Darmstadt.

literature

• Carlo Schneider, Die Friedhöfe in Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1991, p. 75.
• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1621.
• Ulrich Eisenbach (Ed.): From the beginnings of industrialization to the engineering region. 150 years IHK Darmstadt Rhein Main Neckar, Darmstadt 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Corps list of Franconia Karlsruhe 1839–1929 , No. 324