Heinrich Freiberger

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Heinrich Freiberger (born August 21, 1900 in Munich ; † September 9, 1990 ) was a German graduate engineer.

Life

Freiberger attended the Rupprecht and Luitpold secondary school in Munich, interrupted by a period in military service towards the end of the First World War . After graduating from high school in 1920, he studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich and obtained his diploma in 1924. He began as a designer and patent processor at Süddeutsche Motoren AG in Munich and at Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart , and then worked as an examiner and developer at Brown, Boveri & Cie. AG in Mannheim and as laboratory manager and head of metrology at Bewag . In 1933 he submitted his dissertation to the TH Berlin on the subject of "The electrical resistance of the human body to technical direct and alternating currents" on the first systematic measurements of body resistance . The work was published in book form in 1934.

From 1936 Freiberger worked as chief designer and board member at Voigt & Haeffner in Frankfurt am Main . During the Second World War Freiberger was involved in the reorganization of the European lamp industry in the German-occupied countries. Head of the special group "Lighting technology, light bulbs, coals and brushes" (RMfRuK) and jointly responsible for the "hunter program" within the Osram Group. Together with Hans Heyne from the "Jägerstab" responsible for the underground construction project of the Osram Group as part of the "Jägerprogramm" in Leitmeritz.

From 1947 to 1956 he was the founding managing director and chairman of the Association of German Electricity Companies in Frankfurt am Main. From 1950 to 1956 he was technical director of the Hamburger Elektrizitätswerke , then a member of the management and then until 1967 chairman of the management of Osram GmbH Berlin- Munich. He was a member of the board of directors of Bergmann Elektrizitätswerke AG in Berlin and Munich and was managing director of P. Gossen GmbH in Erlangen . In 1957 he became a member of the Association of the Bavarian Metal Industry , in 1960 he became its deputy chairman, before he was chairman from 1962 to 1973 and then honorary chairman. From 1964 to 1973 he was President and then Honorary President of the Association of Employers' Associations in Bavaria , he was also Deputy Chairman of the General Association of Metal Industry Employers' Associations, member of the Presidium of the Federal Association of Employers' Associations and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Munich Trade Fair and Exhibition Company . From 1970 to 1975 he was a member of the Bavarian Senate and from 1974 to 1984 he was a member of the administrative board of Bayerischer Rundfunk . Freiberger was an honorary senator of the University of Karlsruhe .

He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on December 7, 1964.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.seefunknetz.de/hist30.htm
  2. ↑ Heinrich Freiberger: The electrical resistance of the human body to technical direct and alternating current . Springer, Berlin 1934 (Ed. With the support of the Association of the German Employers' Liability Insurance Association, Employers Liability Insurance Association for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering, Berliner Städtische Elektrizitätswerke AG).
personal data
SURNAME Freiberger, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and senator (Bavaria)
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1990