House of Technology (Essen)
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The Haus der Technik , HDT for short , is Germany's oldest independent technical training institute with headquarters in Essen and branches in Berlin and Munich .
The Essen head office, which was designed by Edmund Körner and has been a listed building since 1987, is located north of the Essen main train station and served the then Essen stock exchange until 1934 .
history
Before the building of the Essen Stock Exchange, today's Haus der Technik, was built, a sheet metal rolling mill from Schulz Knaudt & Co was located here on the eastern station forecourt . and residential development with small houses that were abandoned in the course of the redesign of the area in the early 1920s.
Headquarters of the Essen Stock Exchange
As early as 1855, the Essen Stock Exchange, which initially only existed for two years, emerged from a private exchange association as part of regular Sunday negotiations. At the instigation of the mining association, the Essen stock exchange was brought back to life on December 21, 1865. The official character applied for at that time was rejected in 1866. Shares in mining and steelworking companies, Kuxe , shares in the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and industrial bonds were traded . In 1880 the Essen Stock Exchange was placed under the supervision of the Chamber of Commerce, and it was given stock exchange regulations . The trade focus was on mining values .
At the turn of the century, in 1900, the industrial exchange was held in the Hotel Hartmann (called: Berliner Hof) in what was then then Rechtsstrasse 14. Coal, mining paper and industrial bonds were traded, among other things .
In 1905, the Düsseldorf and Essen stock exchanges formed an alliance. As a result, the regular stock exchange meetings were held in both cities since November of that year. With the beginning of the First World War , the stock exchange had to close at the end of July 1914. After replacement business with unofficial meetings on papers from the war goods industry ensured growth rates during the war years, stock exchange listings were resumed on January 1, 1918, with rising inflation leaving its mark.
In 1924/1925, the Essen stock exchange was relocated to the new stock exchange building specially constructed by the architect Edmund Körner , today's House of Technology. Construction of this building began in 1922.
In 1934 the Essen stock exchange was closed. The closure resulted from a decree by the Reich Minister of Economics, Kurt Schmitt , who had reduced the number of German stock exchanges from 21 to 9 in the interests of a functional German securities market. The Rheinisch-Westfälische Börse zu Düsseldorf took over the duties of the Essen stock exchange.
House of technology
The HDT was founded in 1909. At a meeting of the Rheinisch-Westphalian Society for Exact Sciences he founded , Heinrich Reisner pointed out the need for further training for engineers. In 1912 the company decided to set up a training facility in Essen for this purpose. But only through the Society for Science and Life in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area , which was founded in 1919 together with the Mayor of Essen Hans Luther , as well as the chemist Franz Fischer and the banker Wilhelm von Waldthausen and still exists today as the new umbrella company for the scientific community , cultural and economic endeavors , the desired training institute was set up as a house of technology in the building wing of the Essen stock exchange and opened on November 21, 1927. The association of the same name was founded on January 9, 1930. The sculptural jewelry created by the Essen sculptor Will Lammert fell victim to the destruction of the Nazis as Degenerate Art except for two heads protruding from the east wall.
During the Second World War , the HDT was completely destroyed in a bomb attack on March 5, 1943. The library and the patent literature office also fell victim to this destruction. Even before the building was rebuilt, the first lecture after the war took place on April 24, 1946. In the same year, RWTH Aachen set up a branch office here.
The actual reconstruction was carried out between 1951 and 1953. A storey was added and the visual design of the arcades was changed, which was not undisputed at the time. After the renovation of the old stock exchange building, the current building has over 40 seminar rooms and conference halls with capacities between 10 and 570 participants with modern conference technology.
In 2011, the bronze sculpture created by Jürgen Ebert and depicting founder Heinrich Reisner was placed on a bench on Heinrich-Reisner-Platz west of the house . After repeated vandalism, it was finally dismantled in August 2018.
Training institute
Haus der Technik is a cooperation partner of RWTH Aachen University in the legal form of a non-profit, registered association and annually organizes around 1500 seminars, conferences and congresses (some with exhibitions). Together with cooperation partners, the HDT also offers courses with a university degree. It cooperates with the partner universities Duisburg-Essen , Münster , RWTH Aachen and Westphalian University . . The HDT focuses on plant , electrical , energy , vehicle , manufacturing , building , medical and process engineering as well as construction , business management , fire protection , chemistry , IT , mechanical engineering , pharmaceuticals , quality control , radiation protection , environmental protection and materials science .
Managing directors
Members of the board of the Haus der Technik eV
- Chairman: Rolf Pohlig
- Deputy Chairman: Georg Schachner,
- Executive board member: Werner Klaffke
Former executive board members
- until 1951 Heinrich Reisner
- 1951–1964 Karl Krekeler
- 1964–1974 Kurt Giesen
- 1974–2004 Eberhard Steinmetz
- 2004–2014 Ulrich Brill
Publications
Reference book series
The publishing service of the series House of Technology textbook , the expert verlag Renningen held.
Technical notices (TM 2.0)
Haus der Technik also publishes the Journal for Research and Technology TM 2.0. The TM 2.0 is the digital continuation of the technical messages (TM), which were published in printed form for 100 years and which were published in Dortmund in 1907 by three professional associations, the Rhein.-Westf. Bezirksverein Deutscher Chemiker, the Elektrotechn. Association of the Rhein.-Westf. Industry District and the Westphalian District Association of German Engineers were founded.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tony Kellen: The industrial city of Essen in words and pictures. History and description of the city of Essen. At the same time a guide through food and the surrounding area. Fredebeul & Koenen, Essen 1902, p. 60 .
- ↑ Düsseldorf Stock Exchange - History
- ↑ Janet Lindgens: Figure does not return: art surrenders to vandalism ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 21, 2019
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - offline
- ↑ www.hdt-essen.de ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved March 26, 2013
- ↑ Members of the board of the Haus der Technik eV on the official website (accessed on November 16, 2015)
- ↑ Haus der Technik Publications ( Memento of the original dated August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved March 26, 2013
- ↑ About TM 2.0 ; accessed on May 10, 2017
Web links
- Website House of Technology
- Website of the House of Technology University
- Extract from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (PDF; 596 kB)
- Internet magazine TM 2.0 Technische Mitteilungen - Technical Reports
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 9 ″ N , 7 ° 0 ′ 54 ″ E