Heinrich Moritz (Metallurgist)
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Heinrich Moritz (born October 9, 1901 in Friedberg ; † after 1962) was a German metallurgist , for a time a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR and an official in the GDR CDU.
Life
Moritz attended elementary school and high school in Weilburg an der Lahn . After graduating from high school, he studied mining and metallurgy at the Bergakademie Clausthal from 1920 to 1926 and graduated as a graduate engineer. He then moved to the University of Freiburg , where he worked as an assistant in the Mineralogical Institute until 1936. During this time he was promoted to Dr. phil. nat. PhD.
In 1936 Moritz moved to Mansfeld AG in Hettstedt , where he worked under various rulers as head of spectrochemistry, the temperature monitoring office and the laboratory foundry in the Hettstedt rolling mill. He experienced the end of the war, the transformation of Mansfeld AG into a SAG company and the management of the company as a state-owned company. At the same time, he also worked for the Chamber of Technology in Halle from 1946. In the same year he joined the CDU block party in the Soviet occupation zone. The year 1950 was a turning point for Moritz both politically and in terms of work. He moved to Halle to the newly established Office for Materials and Goods Testing, which he directed and then led until 1953. At the same time, as a CDU member, he was honored with the title hero of work for a procedure to test the quality of the still liquid steel . He was one of the first 52 title holders in the GDR. Shortly thereafter, he was also elected to the People's Chamber as CDU representative , of which he remained until 1963. Furthermore, Moritz was a member of the main board of the CDU for a few years from 1953. In addition, he moved to Leipzig in 1953 , where he initially headed the spectrochemical laboratory at the Central Institute for Foundry Technology until 1957 . He then worked as the head of the physics department in the same facility.
Honors
- 1950 Hero of Labor
- 1956 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
Works and writings
- Operational Spectrochemical Analysis: practical advice for performing spectrochemical analyzes in the operational laboratory. Enke, Stuttgart 1946 and ²1956 (subtitle of the 2nd edition: ... with practical advice ... )
literature
- Federal Ministry for all German issues (ed.): SBZ biography. A biographical reference book on the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany , Bonn, Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1961, p. 237
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moritz, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and functionary in the GDR CDU |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1957 |