Eugen Schilling

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Eugen Schilling (born August 14, 1861 in Munich ; † July 4, 1941 in Bad Kohlgrub ) was a German chemist and director of the gas lighting company in Munich, supervisory board of Lux'schen Industriewerke in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , supervisory board of Isaria -Zählerwerke in Munich, Committee member in the Polytechnic Association in Munich, committee member in the Deutsches Museum , gas technology department in Munich, as well as builder and manager of the Augsburg gasworks .

Life

Eugen was the fourth child (after the siblings Helene, Paul and Jakobine) of gas director Nikolaus Heinrich Schilling (1826-1894) and his wife Minna Franziska, née Tils (1822-1865). After the early death of his mother (1865), her older sister (aunt Helene) became a second mother, although his father married a second time in 1867 with the daughter of the Justice Minister Eduard von Bomhard (honorary doctorate from Munich University).

After attending primary school at Glockenbach in Munich, Schilling graduated from Maximiliansgymnasium in August 1880 . During his time as a high school student he learned to play the piano with Josef Giehrl, viola with court musician Anton Thoms, drawing and painting with the painter Hans von Bartels and played trios, piano and string quartets with his brother Hans and with father and son Aschenbrenner. After five years of studying at the Polytechnic in Munich, Schilling graduated with grade 1 in 1885 and became an assistant at the gas lighting company in Munich in autumn 1885. Schilling did his doctoral thesis with Hans Bunte on the subject of nitrogen content and the ammonia yield of hard coal, received his doctorate in Erlangen in 1887 and, in addition to his position as assistant, received the position of chemist at the gas works, which he held until 1891. During this time, in addition to his professional duties, he was trained in singing with his baritone voice from master Eugen Gura and appeared in larger societies with songs and arias, as well as in the choir under Levi , Fischer, Zumpe , Porges and Mottl , once with Othegraven at the Bavarian court .

On August 11, 1888 he married Thekla von Tubeuf (born May 23, 1867 in Amorbach ), the only daughter of the domain director widow Baroness von Tubeuf. The three children Claire (* December 14, 1889 - December 24, 1921), Elisabeth (* June 17, 1892 - August 28, 1947) and Hans (* August 25, 1895 - August 1, 1908) resulted from the marriage ). Until 1894 the family lived in a service apartment of the gas lighting company in Maistrasse in Munich. In 1897 Schilling acquired an estate, the Harrerhof in Bad Kohlgrub, and in the following years he set up a summer apartment there in his Schillingshof .

After the death of the director Lothar Diehl in 1892, Schilling became his successor and managed the Munich gas works until the concession agreement with the city of Munich was terminated in 1899. In 1899 he took over the management of the gas knife factory , whose company was sold to Friedrich Lux in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Schilling was appointed to the supervisory board of Lux'schen Industriewerke and was a member of the supervisory board of the new company Isaria -ählerwerke in Munich, which had bought back the electricity meter and gas meter factory of the Lux'schen Industriewerke in Munich in 1907.

In addition to these important supervisory board positions, Schilling exercised a wide range of activities as a civil engineer in advising city authorities on gas matters. Expert reports, arbitration tribunals, construction and operational inspections alternated with literary works and those for the gas specialists' association. For the gas journal, which was edited by Hans Bunte, he made occasional contributions and, from 1902, published the specialist calendar for the gas and water sector. In the Polytechnic Association, Schilling had been a member of the committee since 1895, and in the Deutsches Museum, whose committee he had been a member since its foundation, he set up the gas technology department .

Schilling's greatest and most important work was the building of the Augsburg gas works , the plans of which he designed and carried out with the construction company Gebr. Rank. In 1917 he also managed the company, which opened in 1915, for a year.

After the end of the First World War , Schilling finally moved to Bad Kohlgrub and devoted himself to his family, his Schillingshof estate, music and, above all, painting. He died on July 4, 1941 and found his final resting place in the bell tower of the Paulus Church in Bad Kohlgrub.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The gas works historical data by year. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .