Fritz Medicus (engineer)

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Fritz Medicus (born February 12, 1869 in Deutenhofen (Hebertshausen) , † October 17, 1945 in Höllriegelskreuth ) was a German engineer and manager of the energy industry.

Life

Fritz Medicus, son of the founder of the Munich-Dachauer AG for machine paper manufacture Gustav Medicus, attended the secondary school in Munich. After graduating from high school, he studied mechanical engineering and electrical engineering at the Technical Universities of Munich and the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 1890 he became a member of the Corps Germania Munich . In Darmstadt he was a student and private assistant to Erasmus Kittler . As a one-year volunteer, he served in the Royal Bavarian 3rd Field Artillery Regiment "Prince Leopold" . He then began his industrial career in the central department of Elektrizitäts-AG formerly Schuckert & Co. in Nuremberg . As a result, he moved as a production engineer to the Straßenbahn AG Nürnberg , as an operations inspector for the railway department of AEG in Berlin , as head of the AEG branch back to Nuremberg and in Hanover as branch manager of the Elektrizitäts-AG formerly W. Lahmeyer & Co. He became chief engineer 1910 Head of the Hanover branch of the AEG headquarters. In 1912 he moved to Elektrizitätswerk Westfalen AG , Bochum, where he was the Münster district office for overland supply in the Münsterland . In 1922, as a senior engineer and head of operations in Münster, he became director and board member of the United Electricity Works Westphalia (VEW), which had emerged from the Electricity Works Westphalia AG .

Medicus was a member of the Association of German Engineers and the Association of German Electrical Engineers . Since 1900 he was married without children.

literature

  • Medicus, Fritz. 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 , pp. 1216–1217.
  • Medicus, Fritz. 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. 1450.
  • Hans Herpich and Hans Schmuck: 100 Years of Corps Germania in Munich, Festschrift on November 14, 1963 , Ingolstadt 1963, p. 66, (No. 164 of the Germania Corps List 1863–1963)