Emil Schrödter
Emil Schrödter (born February 26, 1855 in Düsseldorf , † October 31, 1928 in Mehlem ) was a German association functionary of heavy industry.
Life
Schrödter was the son of the Schwedt / Oder-born mechanic Alexander Emil Schrödter (1812-1858) and his wife Constanza Anna, née Bewer (1820-1899), from Düsseldorf. The famous painter Adolph Schroedter was his paternal uncle. Schrödter studied after obtaining his school-leaving certificate in 1872 at the Realschule on Klosterstrasse , from 1873 to 1875 mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic and metallurgy at the Berlin Business Academy . After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer in 1876, he worked as an engineer at the Ernst Schieß machine factory in Düsseldorf- Oberbilk and then switched to the iron industry at the S. Huldschinsky & Söhne tubular rolling mills in Gleiwitz .
Due to illness, Schrödter ended his industrial activities and joined the Association of German Ironworkers in 1881 . He was its managing director from 1885 to 1897 and headed the association as an executive board member from 1898 to 1916, which he expanded into a nationally and internationally respected interest group for the German iron and steel industry. In 1894 he founded the Upper Silesia Ironworks and in 1904 the Southwest German-Luxemburgish Ironworks (later Southwest Ironworks). Schrödter established international connections, such as with the technical associations of the then leading steel industries in Great Britain and the USA. From 1885 to 1910 he was responsible for the technical part of the worldwide publication Stahl und Eisen, published by the Association of German Ironworkers since 1881 . In 1908 he founded the Stahleisen publishing house, which still exists today .
Schrödter played a leading role in the establishment and management of various syndicates and associations. From 1887 to 1888 he was managing director of the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Roheisenverband, one of the forerunners of the steelworks association and the rolled steel association, and from 1914 to 1920 chairman of the association of German stainless steel works , the stainless steel association. He was also the managing director of the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange . Schrödter has supported the cooperation of several mechanical engineering companies on economic issues since 1888. In 1890 this culminated in the establishment of the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Maschinenbauanstalten Association, since 1892 the Association of German Mechanical Engineering Institutions (VdMA), whose management Schrödter was until 1909. He was also the managing director of the semi-finished products association (around 1900) and the Association of German Iron Portland Cement Works (1901–1918).
In addition, Schrödter was Düsseldorf city councilor for the Liberal Party from 1896 to 1918 , later at the same time as a representative of Düsseldorf and a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Rhine Province (1916–1918). He was also a member of the Expert Commission of the Imperial Statistical Office .
Honors
- Dr.-Ing. E. h. the RWTH Aachen (1903)
- Honorary Member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (1909)
- Honorary member of the Association of German Mechanical and Plant Engineering (1911)
- Honorary Member of the American Iron and Steel Institute (1912)
- Honorary member of the Association of German Ironworkers (1917)
- Golden Carl Lueg Memorial Medal (1906)
- Red Eagle Order II. Class
source
- Manfred Toncourt: Schrödter, Emil , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 23 (2007), pp. 580-581 online version
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schrödter, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schrödter, Alexander Emil Adolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German association functionary of heavy industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1928 |
| Place of death | Flour |