Georg Juretzek

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Georg Karl Juretzek (born August 11, 1905 in Kochlowitz , † January 19, 1977 in Freiberg ) was a German metallurgist and university professor.

Life

Georg Juretzek graduated from high school in Gliwice and then gained practical experience in the metallurgical industry for a year. From 1926 to 1931 he studied metallurgy at the Technical University of Breslau , after which he accepted an assistant position with Wilhelm Tafel at the Wroclaw chair for metallurgical machinery and rolling mills.

From 1932 he worked for two years as an assistant in the large coking plant of the Schaffgot'schen Werke in Odertal . In June 1934 he moved to the United Oberschlesische Hüttenwerke Gleiwitz, where he worked in the head office of the technical economic center. He later headed the business administration and heating department at the Herminenhütte rolling mill in Laband . In June 1935 he became a production engineer in the hot rolling mill. He worked for two years as operations manager and senior engineer in the ingot, medium and heavy iron rolling mill and in 1939 he became the rolling mill manager of the newly built rolling mill.

Georg Juretzek did his military service at the end of the Second World War . He was taken prisoner by the United States and was later unemployed for a while until he took up an assistant position at the ironworks institute of the Freiberg Mining Academy in 1947. In 1950 he went back to industry: in the steel and rolling mill in Hennigsdorf , he initially worked as a rolling mill manager, from 1951 also as production manager and from 1952 as deputy technical director. In 1953 he went to Brandenburg an der Havel to work in the local VEB steel and rolling mill in the construction of an 850 rolling mill.

In January 1954 he returned to the Freiberg Mining Academy. He became Professor of Metal Forming, Director of the Metal Forming Institute, and Head of Metal Forming Department. After the third university reform in the GDR and the dissolution of the institutes, Georg Juretzek was relieved of his duties as institute director and head of department in 1968. In 1969 he was appointed full professor for sculptural design. In September 1970 he retired.

Juretzek was from 1961 to 1965 chairman of the Society of German Miners and Hutsmen (GDBH). In 1964 he headed the GDR delegation in the section for scientific research of the Standing Commission on Black Metallurgy of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (RGW). He was a member of the Research Council of the GDR , belonged to the metallurgy section of the German Academy of Sciences and worked for years on the editorial board of the journal Neue Hütte .

Georg Juretzek died on January 19, 1977 in Freiberg. His grave is on the Donatsfriedhof in Freiberg .

Honors

literature

  • L. Eberlein , Th. Spittel: Professor Juretzek 65 years old . In: New Hut . 15/1970/10, p. 636
  • In memoriam of Prof. Georg Juretzek . In: New Hut . 22/1977/4, pp. 231-232
  • Hartmut Schleiff, Roland Volkmer, Herbert Kaden : Catalogus Professorum Fribergensis: Professors and teachers at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg 1765 to 2015. Freiberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86012-492-5 , p. 207

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b In memoriam of Prof. Georg Juretzek . In: New Hut . 22/1977/4, pp. 231-232
  2. ↑ a b c d e Hartmut Schleiff, Roland Volkmer, Herbert Kaden : Catalogus Professorum Fribergensis: Professors and teachers at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg 1765 to 2015. Freiberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86012-492-5 , p. 207
  3. ↑ Bergakademische professor graves in Freiberg cemeteries . Freiberg, 2006. ISBN 978-3-86012-285-3 , p. 63
personal data
SURNAME Juretzek, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juretzek, Georg Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German metallurgist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Kochlowitz
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 1977
Place of death Freiberg