Fritz Reinhard

This article deals with the engineer and industrial manager Fritz Reinhard. For the artist see Reinhard Fritz .

Fritz Reinhard (born July 9, 1889 in Paplitz (Baruth / Mark) , † February 18, 1974 in Neuwied ) was a German engineer and manager of the pumice industry .

Life

Fritz Reinhard, son of the Protestant theologian Wilhelm Reinhard and born Sophie Siegert, graduated from the Royal High School in Danzig . He then completed a six-month locksmith internship at the Haniel & Lueg machine factory in Düsseldorf. From October 1910 to September 1911 he served as a one-year volunteer with the 1st Rhenish Pioneer Battalion No. 8 in Koblenz . In the winter semester of 1911 he began studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich and became a member of the Corps Borussia Munich, which is now back in Clausthal . In 1912 he completed another internship at the main railway workshop in Gdansk. In the summer semester of 1913 he moved to the Technical University of Danzig and for the summer semester of 1914 he went back to the TH Munich. During the First World War he took part in the 2nd West Prussian Pioneer Battalion No. 23 and in the 1st West Prussian Pioneer Battalion No. 17 . In autumn 1914 he was taken prisoner by Russia. After an unsuccessful attempt to escape, he managed to escape from Siberia in the spring of 1918. As a lieutenant in the reserve, he last led a pioneer company on the western front until the end of 1918. In the winter semester of 1918/19 he continued his studies at the TH Danzig. From January to April 1919 he was a co-founder of the Linau volunteer student company in the Eastern Border Guard . The following month he joined the Corps Baltica Danzig . He was spokesman for the student committee of the TH Danzig. In February 1920 he graduated as a graduate engineer.

In April 1920 Reinhard took a position as authorized signatory at the Friedr pumice building materials plant . Remy Successor AG in Neuwied . From 1922 until his retirement in 1956 he was the company's technical director. In the first years of his activity he carried out the mechanization and rationalization in the pumice stone production. By adapting the products to market needs and developing special constructions such as slabs and stones made of pumice stone, he was able to increase the demand for Remy pumice building materials. To this end, he wrote numerous articles on pumice building materials that were published in specialist journals. In the Second World War he took part as a captain and department head at the armaments command in Koblenz.

Reinhard was a member of the board of the AOK Neuwied from 1927 to 1960 and chairman of the representative assembly. He was deputy chairman of the association for the protection of the economic interests of the Rheinische Bimssteinindustrie e. V. He was a member of the expert committee of the technical-scientific associations in the Higher Regional Court district of Koblenz. He was a labor judge and a member of the Koblenz Chamber of Commerce and Industry. From 1927 to 1934 he was a board member of the German National People's Party, a member of the Neuwied city council and a member of the district council of the Neuwied district. From 1945 to 1949 he was councilor in Neuwied. He was a member of the Evangelical People's Association e. V. in Neuwied. From 1951 to 1959 he was presbyter of the Protestant parish Neuwied and member of the Rhenish Provincial Synod. Since 1921 he was married to the staff officer's daughter Irmgard Hildenbrand, with whom he had four sons.

Awards

• Iron Cross 2nd class in the First World War
• Wound badge in the First World War
• Border Guard Eastern Abbey, 1919
• Cross of Honor of the World War , 1934
• War Merit Cross 2nd and 1st Class with Swords in World War II
• Friedrich Siegert commemorative coin, 1949
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class, 1954
• Freiherr vom Stein plaque (Rhineland-Palatinate) , 1962
• Coat of arms of the Neuwied district, 1964

literature

• Reinhard, 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 , p. 1502.
• Reinhard, 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. 1792–1793.
• Hans Nehlep (Ed.): Album Academicum des Corps Baltica-Borussia Danzig 1860-2000. Berlin 1973 revised and supplemented by Degenhardt Müller, Hans-Wolfgang Nehlep and Jürgen Protz, Essen 2000, pp. 164–165.