Ferdinand Max Georgi

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Ferdinand Max Georgi (born April 1, 1854 in Grimma ; † February 26, 1940 in Dresden ) was a secret mountain ridge, mining pioneer and director of the Zauckerode Royal Coal Works .

Life

Max Ferdinand Georgi was born on April 1, 1854 in Grimma, as the son of the Garrison Administration Chief Inspector Wilhelm Ferdinand Georgi and his wife Henriette Ernestine, née. Goat skin, born. From the age of 10 he attended grammar school in Grimma and from 1866 the Kreuzschule in Dresden, where his father had been transferred. In 1868 he moved back to the Princely School in Grimma. In Unterprima , Georgi left the Princely School in 1872 and took lessons at the Zittau Building Trade School . After passing the entrance exam, he began studying metallurgy at the Bergakademie Freiberg at Easter 1873 and made a good friend in Professor Clemens Winkler . Since the chances of advancement in the iron and steel works were bad, he passed the exam as a mining engineer on the advice of Professor Albin Weisbach . In December 1877 he passed the exams as a mining engineer and mine separator . On the subsequent work course on the underground mining shafts of the Erzgebirge Coal Association in Zwickau , he acquired knowledge of the sinking of shafts. During this course, Georgi was appointed to the Zauckerode Royal Coal Works. But before he even started, the Glückauf scholarship awarded to him by the Mining Authority gave him the opportunity to study coal mining in the Prussian state mines in Saarbrücken for a few weeks . In August 1878 he started as a steiger in Zauckerode and took over the supervision of a crosscutting operation in Porphyrite, where the hydraulic drilling machine according to Brandt was used for the first time . Georgi was soon promoted to Obersteiger and on July 1, 1879, he was appointed to the civil service as a mountain administrator . On August 14, 1879, he married Margarethe Hesse, the daughter of the royal mountain factor, in Freiberg. After Director Förster was appointed to the Ministry of Finance as an unskilled worker in 1886, Georgi was given responsibility for the management and he moved into the director's apartment on Oppelschacht . In 1893 he was given the title of Operations Director. When Förster was finally appointed to the Saxon Ministry of Finance in 1898, Georgi took over the position of director at the Zauckerode Royal Coal Works. After the death of Professor Carl Gustav Kreischer , Georgi was to take over his professorship at the Bergakademie Freiberg, which he had to decline because of a throat ailment and frequent hoarseness. When the Royal Coal Works celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1906, Georgi was named a mountain ridge. He retired on April 1, 1920. While he was still preparing to move to Emser-Allee 21 (today Goetheallee), his wife suffered a stroke that confined her to a wheelchair until her death on June 29, 1925. After her death, he moved to his daughter Gertrud at Elisenstrasse 1. Ferdinand Max Georgi died on February 26, 1940 as a result of a stroke and was buried on March 1, 1940 by Zaucker or miners in parade attire at the Trinity cemetery in Dresden in double grave 2C1,24 .

Services

Georgi founded the scientific association "Vorwärts" during his studies at the Freiberg Mining Academy and in 1875 the scientific association "Glückauf", which in 1898 was converted into a fraternity . Under Georgi's direction, "Glückauf" soon achieved a respected position at the Bergakademie. Georgi's constant endeavor was to implement advances in technology in mining operations. So he made various experiments and wrote articles about them in the yearbooks for mining and metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony, for example about the investigation and testing of new explosives, the use of the diamond drill with electric drive, water insulation and concrete construction when sinking the shaft, electrical signaling devices in mine operations, lubrication devices on mining vehicles, the use of electrical power transmission in mine operations and combating the risk of coal dust and rock pressure. In 1901 he arranged for the recovery of the six dinosaur skeletons found on November 19, 1901 in the pit of the Queen Carola Shaft , which Professor von Huene described in 1925 as Pantelosaurus saxonius . Under Georgi's direction, the new construction of the Döhlener wash was built in 1892/93 , the cable car for the stockpile fall at Oppelschacht in 1892, electrical central units at Albertschacht in 1898, at Oppelschacht in 1899 and at Carolaschächten in 1906 and coke ovens on Döhlener wash. The König-Georg-Schacht in Weißig was sunk in 1902/09 and the additional coal dust firing system was introduced in 1913, safety lamps in 1902 and stationary electrical incandescent lamp lighting in the pit from 1911. Of particular importance in 1909 was the procurement of an electric hoisting machine based on the Ilgner system with Leonhard circuit for the König-Georg-Schacht.

Georgi paid special attention to social issues. In 1889, for example, he had cooking facilities built on the shafts and the laundry, in 1895, in collaboration with the company doctor Moritz Fernbacher, a team shower and in 1896 a spa near the Oppelschacht.

Georgi held several honorary positions. For 25 years he was the church mayor in Oberpesterwitz and chairman of the conservative association in Plauen. In 1903 he took over the chairmanship of a committee for the construction of the King Albert monument on the Windberg , at the inauguration of which he gave the Weiherede on August 18, 1904.

Awards

Georgi received the Albrecht Order 1st Class in 1900 , the Order of Merit 1st Class in 1904, the Officer's Cross of the Albrecht Order in 1916 and the Saxon War Merit Cross in 1917.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walther Fischer: Grimmaic ECCE . Ed .: Theodor Kühn. Dresden 1940, p. 24/30 .
  2. ^ Address book for Dresden and suburbs . Dresden 1922.
  3. ^ Address book for Dresden and suburbs . Dresden 1938.
  4. ^ Cemetery book of the Trinitatisfriedhofs . Dresden 1940.
  5. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 141.
  6. ^ FM Georgi: Results of the use of newer explosive materials at the Royal Coal Works. In: CG Gottschalk (Hrsg.): Yearbook for the mining and metallurgical industry in the Kingdom of Saxony . Freiberg 1882, p. 135-144 .
  7. ↑ FM Georgi: The diamond drill with electric drives at the Royal Coal Works in Zauckerode. In: C. Menzel (Hrsg.): Yearbook for mining and metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony . Freiberg 1890, p. 95-119 .
  8. ^ FM Georgi: Water damming and concrete expansion in the König Georg shaft of the Zauckerode Royal Coal Works. In: C. Menzel (Hrsg.): Yearbook for mining and metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony . Freiberg 1904, p. 97-106 .
  9. ^ FM Georgi: About lubricating devices on trams. In: C. Menzel (Hrsg.): Yearbook for mining and metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony . Freiberg 1894, p. 28-35 .
  10. ↑ FM Georgi: The application of electrical power transmission in the mining operations of the Royal Coal Works in Zauckerode. In: C. Menzel (Hrsg.): Yearbook for mining and metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony . Freiberg 1892, p. 40-63 .
  11. ↑ R. Bull Market: A mass grave of dinosaurs in the sub-Rothliegende of Döhlener brazier in Plauen'schen basically near Dresden . In: C. Menzel (Hrsg.): Yearbook for mining and metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony . Freiberg 1902, p. 25-50 .
personal data
SURNAME Georgi, Ferdinand Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1940
Place of death Dresden