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Ernst Kuss (born November 4, 1888 in Riesenburg , West Prussia , † June 16, 1956 in Duisburg ) was a chemist, smelter and social politician.
Life
Kuss studied chemistry in Berlin and Breslau. In Berlin he joined the student union Turnerschaft Brandenburgia (today Turnerschaft Berlin im CC ). In 1914 he was with the paper "On the reaction between gaseous Borwasserstoffen and bases" doctorate . From 1918 to 1922 he was Alfred Stock's assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem .
From 1938 to 1955, Kuss was director of Duisburger Kupferhütte , a subsidiary of IG Farbenindustrie AG . The Duisburg copper smelter was confiscated from 1945 to 1952 and placed under the supervision of a British control officer. However, Kuss succeeded in preventing dismantling and, despite considerable war damage, got the plant going again within a short time. From 1953 he pushed through the abolition of time clocks and the payment of earnings to employees at the end of the year. In this way he implemented a form of employee participation in company profits. He spread this concept under the title “Just Wages”.
Kuss received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Karlsruhe and the universities of Munich and Münster. He was visiting professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn . Kuss was a recipient of the DECHEMA Medal (awarded in 1954), the Carl Duisberg Plaque and the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany's Order of Merit (awarded in 1955).
A street was named after him in the Buchholz district of Duisburg.
literature
- Greiling, Kurt Horalek: 75 years of Duisburger Kupferhütte 1876–1951 . Duisburg copper smelter, 1951
- Wilhelm Klemm: Kiss, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 341 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Ernst Kuss in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- This is not a gift of grace . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1951 ( online - Just Wage Declaration).
- Mathematical scrambling . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1949 ( online - introducing fair wages).
Individual evidence
- ↑ staedte-info.net accessed on January 4, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kiss, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kiss, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Giant castle |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1956 |
| Place of death | Duisburg |