Emmerich Pöchmüller

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Emmerich Pöchmüller (born July 7, 1902 in Linz ; † August 30, 1963 at the Walserberg border crossing ) was an Austrian chemical engineer .

Life

Pöchmüller was the son of a judge. After graduating from high school in Vienna in 1920 , he studied technical chemistry at the Technical Universities of Vienna and Graz from 1920 to 1928 . He completed his studies in 1927 as a graduate engineer . In 1928 he was promoted to Dr. tech. PhD . During his studies he became active in the academic fraternity of Upper Austrian Teutons in Vienna in 1920 . From 1928 to 1938 he was a university assistant for technical chemistry at the coal research institute in Halle an der Saale . He published numerous scientific papers on fuel technology and was the head of high-pressure hydrogenation in the Magdeburg plant of BRABAG (Braunkohle-Petrol AG). From 1938 to 1941 he worked in the control bank for industry and trade in Vienna and as a member of the supervisory board. He was also a board member in several Austrian industrial companies.

From 1942 to 1945 Pöchmüller was General Director of the Austrian Saltworks (then Alpenländische Salinen ). During this activity he played a key role in the recovery and rescue of a huge inventory of valuable cultural assets that had been stored in the Altaussee salt mine and in the salt mine in Lauffen (Upper Austria) to protect against bombing and could be saved from destruction there.

From July 1945 to January 27, 1947 Pöchmüller was supported by the American occupation forces in the camp Glasbach (at Elsbethen ) because of his membership in the NSDAP interned . From 1954 until his death from a heart attack (1963) he worked in the Krauss-Maffei Group in Munich in the technical and acquisition-related processing of processing machines for the plastics industry .

Publications

  • World art treasures in danger. Pallas Verlag, Salzburg 1948.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 154-156.
  • Eva Frodl-Kraft: Legacy at Risk. Austria's Monument Protection and Preservation , 1997, page 364, footnote 658 ( digitized version )
  • Harry Slapnicka: 550 key words, history of home , book publisher Franz Steinmassl, 2000, ISBN 3900943753 or ISBN 9783900943752 , page 208

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Morscher: Altaussee Salt Mine - The Mountain of Treasures , with a short biography and list of rescued art treasures ( online )
  2. ↑ Christian Reder: In the salt mine , in: Hans Michael Roither (ed.): Ausseer contributions to contemporary and cultural history , Styrian Institute for Contemporary History Bad Aussee, Bad Aussee 1985 ( PDF file )
personal data
SURNAME Pöchmüller, Emmerich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1963
Place of death Walserberg border crossing (Austria)