Friedrich August Krantz

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Friedrich August Krantz (born May 20, 1863 in Annaberg ; † October 10, 1941 in Dresden ) was a German metallurgical engineer and university lecturer for accident prevention.

Life

Friedrich August Krantz obtained his Abitur at the Realschule in Annaberg in 1882 and studied metallurgy at the Freiberg Bergakademie . After graduating in 1886 and doing an internship at the Staatliche Hütten near Freiberg, he began his professional career at Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen and soon afterwards as an engineer in the laboratory of the blast furnace factory in Wissener Hütte. In 1890 he went back to Gutehoffnungshütte, where he became an assistant in the blast furnace.

In 1894 Krantz moved to the Prussian trade supervisory authority in Hagen in Westphalia. In 1899 he was promoted to trade inspector and in 1906 to the trade council in Katowice. In 1912 he was first appointed to the government council, later to the senior government council and lecturer council and state trade inspector in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. At the same time he became a lecturer in accident prevention at the Technical University of Dresden. In 1920 he was appointed Ministerial and Privy Councilor in the Saxon Ministry of Labor and Welfare and Chairman of the Technical Council in the Saxon Ministry of Economics. From 1920 to 1926 he was honorary professor for accident prevention at the TU Dresden.

Friedrich August Krantz was a member of the Corps Franconia Freiberg .

Publications

  • A Contribution to the Regulation of Physical Soil Properties, 1888
  • The development of the Upper Silesian zinc industry, 1911
  • Sunday rest for workers and employees in commercial enterprises, 1921

literature

  • Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 496.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corps list Corps Franconia in Freiberg, Saxony, March 5, 1838 to October 27, 1935, and Corps Franconia Fribergensis in Aachen since November 28, 1953, as of the 1985 summer semester, p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Krantz, Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German metallurgical engineer and university lecturer for accident prevention
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Annaberg
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1941
Place of death Dresden