Ewald Sachsenberg

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Friedrich Eduard Ewald Sachsenberg (born June 16, 1877 in Roßlau , † July 14, 1946 in Berlin ) was a business scientist and university professor . He is considered the "father of German production technology".

Life

Sachsenberg building of the Technical University of Dresden

Ewald Sachsenberg was born in Roßlau in 1877 as the son of the engineer and commercial councilor Georg Sachsenberg. From 1900 to 1904 he studied shipbuilding and mechanical engineering at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg . He then worked as a designer at Friedrich Krupp AG Germania shipyard in Kiel . In 1907 he received his doctorate at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg with his thesis on the resistance of tow trains . For the next 16 years he worked in various companies such as Sachsenberg AG in Cologne, R. Frister AG in Berlin-Oberschöneweide or Reichstreuhandgesellschaft AG in Berlin. In 1920, Ewald Sachsenberg completed his habilitation at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and then worked as a private lecturer in the field of shipyard organization and shipyard operating procedures. He also worked as an editor for the magazine Der Schiffbau . In 1921 he was appointed full professor of business administration to the chair of business administration at the TH Dresden . He was in charge of building up the collection for business sciences (as part of the mechanical-technological collection of the TH Dresden), the establishment of the Psychotechnical Institute in 1922 and the establishment of the Institute for Machine Tool Investigations and Manufacturing Processes in 1923. Later, Ewald Sachsenberg was appointed dean of the mechanical department .

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the Freemason Sachsenberg soon came into conflict with the rulers. But in November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . After a leave of absence in 1939, he was recalled the following year. Ewald Sachsenberg died in Berlin in 1946 after a serious illness.

In 1996 the Technical University of Dresden gave the old Kutzbach building the name Ewald Sachsenbergs.

Works

  • About the resistance of tow trains. Berlin 1907 (Berlin, Technical University, dissertation, 1907).
  • Basics of factory organization. Springer, Berlin 1917.
  • Mechanical technology of metals in question and answer. Springer, Berlin 1924.
  • Economical packaging. Manual for daily use in trade and industry. VDI-Verlag, Berlin 1926.

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  1. ↑ See Die Welt , October 27, 1997
personal data
SURNAME Sachsenberg, Ewald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sachsenberg, Friedrich Eduard Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and business scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosslau
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1946
Place of death Berlin