Georg Bilkenroth

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Georg Bilkenroth (born February 24, 1898 in Osendorf , today Halle , † April 20, 1982 ) was a German mining engineer and member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

Life

Bilkenroth studied at the Clausthal mining academy from 1919 to 1923 . From 1923 he was an operations assistant and from 1935 works director of the Kraft II lignite mine in Deutzen . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In 1940 he became technical director of the Salzdetfurth AG brown coal works in Berlin. In 1942 he was promoted to Dr.-Ing from the Bergakademie Freiberg. PhD ( pressure and pressure measurements in lignite briquetting ).

Bilkenroth was arrested by the Soviet NKVD in mid-1945 and initially held in the Borna District Court . On December 5, 1945 he was transported to the Soviet special camp No. 1 Mühlberg . In mid-1946 he was declared a prisoner of war and deported to a camp in the Soviet Union. In December 1947 he returned to his family, who meanwhile lived in Halle / Saale.

As Technical Director of the VEB Project Planning and Construction Office Coal , he was significantly involved in the development of the GDR's lignite industry . Together with Erich Rammler , he developed the technology of high-temperature lignite gasification for the production of lignite high-temperature coke at the Bergakademie Freiberg after 1949 , a scientific achievement for which Georg Bilkenroth was honored with the GDR National Prize in 1951 . In 1955 he was elected a full member of what was then the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . 1957 Bilkenroth became deputy chairman of the research council of the GDR . In 1958 he became chairman of the International Bureau for Rock Mechanics . In 1978 he received the honorary title of Great Scientist of the People .

He is the father of Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth , an honorary senator of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg .

honors and awards

Own works

  • The personal relationships between Georg Bilkenroth and Erich Rammler . In: A life for brown coal . TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2001, pp. 27–36.

literature

  • Honorary colloquium for the 65th birthday of Georg Bilkenroth . German Verl. Für Grundstofftindustrie Leipzig, 1965 (Freiberg research books; A 343)
  • E. Rammler: Obituary for Georg Bilkenroth . In: Neue Bergbautechnik 12 (1982) 9, pp. 490-491.
  • Herbert Krug, Karl Heinz Rentrop: The production of a high-strength, lumpy high-temperature lignite coke (BHT coke) in a one-stage process according to Bilkenroth-Rammler - a complex task . Bergakademie Freiberg 1991.
  • W. Naundorf, B. Meyer: Georg Bilkenroth - 100 years . In: Brown coal ISSN  1431-2719 . 50 (1998) 2, p. 204.
  • Klaus-Peter Meinecke:  Bilkenroth, Georg . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Bilkenroth: The power and water management as well as the rebuilt wet and dry service of the Kraft II mine near Deutzen . In: brown coal . 1938, issue 37, pp. 485-489
  2. ↑ See speech by Theo Schlösser at the 38th delegates' day of the Ring of German Mining Engineers on June 5, 2004, accessed on February 7, 2015. The information in “Who was who in the GDR?” Is incorrect.
  3. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 42.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Schuster: In the concentration camp 1945–1950 . Self-published, pp. 13 and 31, ISBN 3-8311-1582-6
  5. ↑ Anett Grzelak, Hannelore Naß: Verschollen in the home. Borna citizens in the NKVD camps. Borna, 1999
  6. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , 25./26. February 1978, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Bilkenroth, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German process engineer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Osendorf
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1982