Ernst Rosenthal (industrialist)

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Ernst Rosenthal (born January 19, 1890 in Asch , Bohemia , † August 1969 in London ) was a German porcelain manufacturer.

Life

Ernst Rosenthal, son of the co-founder Max Rosenthal and nephew of the founder Philipp Rosenthal of the porcelain factory Philipp Rosenthal & Co.AG , studied chemistry and electrical engineering at the technical universities of Munich and Berlin-Charlottenburg after graduating from high school at the Holy Cross . In Munich he became a member of the Corps Vitruvia. In 1913 he completed his studies with a degree in engineering. In the following year he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD. He then joined Philipp Rosenthal & Co. AG , where he worked, among other things, in the isolator factory and its test field. After acquiring activities, he became operations manager of the Hennigsdorf porcelain factory of AEG , which was under the management of Philipp Rosenthal & Co. AG . In 1922 he became a board member of Philipp Rosenthal & Co. AG and was responsible for managing the sales organization of the isolator factories. He was also a board member of the Association of Ceramic Trades in Berlin and a member of the supervisory board of the United High Voltage Insulator Works in Berlin and the Sillimanit Isolatoren Vertriebs-GmbH in Berlin.

Because of his Jewish descent, Rosenthal emigrated from Germany to Great Britain in 1935 , where he became Managing Director of Rosenthal China (London) Ltd. , the exclusive sales agent of Philipp Rosenthal & Co. AG in the United Kingdom . After the Second World War he also became a member of the Board of Directors of Lawleys , of which he was a member until 1963.

Fonts

  • The technical properties of porcelain with special consideration of its use as an insulating material in electrical engineering , 1915
  • The solution to the putty problem in insulator construction , 1924 (together with Heinrich Luftschitz)
  • Porcelain & other ceramic insulating materials , Volume 1, Raw Materials, Manufacturing Processes, Testing and Characteristics , 1944
  • Pottery and Ceramics , 1949

literature

  • Rosenthal, Ernst. In: 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. 1564.
  • Rosenthal, Ernst. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 1866.
  • Dr. Jessica 75 . In: AJR Information (Bulletin of the Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain), Volume 20, No. 2, February 1965, p. 15. ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Globusfreund , No. 18–20, Vienna 1969–1971, p. 14.
  2. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 269.
personal data
SURNAME Rosenthal, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German porcelain manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Asch , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH August 1969
Place of death London