Heinrich Notz

Heinrich Notz (born December 6, 1888 in Kulmbach , † August 30, 1951 in Rheinhausen ) was a German engineer.

Life

After attending primary schools in Munich and Cologne , he graduated from the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Magdeburg . He then worked as a trainee at the R. Wolf machine factory in Magdeburg-Buckau , and Rudolf Wolf considered him particularly suitable for the engineering profession. After going through various positions in carpentry , blacksmithing , turning , boilermaking , assembly and pipe drawing , he began training at the Royal Mechanical Engineering School in Magdeburg in 1908 , which he completed in 1910.

Notz was then hired as technical director and senior engineer in Wolf's machine factory. The first essential task up to 1912 was the completion of a test field for locomotives , in which up to 9 machines up to 800 HP and 23 machines with outputs from 10 to 400 HP could be tested. The locomotives drove electrical generators , whose electrical energy was fed into the works network.

In 1920 Notz became director of Wolf's factory in Aschersleben , the former company Wilhelm Schmidt & Co. , which dealt with the mechanical use of superheated steam developed by Wilhelm Schmidt as well as the manufacture of large diesel engines and cell filters . Under Notz, the production facility was then relocated from Aschersleben to Magdeburg-Salbke , taking economic considerations into account , thus establishing the long-standing tradition of Salbker diesel engine construction.

Notz, who became director of the Salbker plant, was appointed to the board as a deputy technical member. His annual salary in 1928 was 30,000 Reichsmarks, plus a 1% share of the dividend to be distributed . In addition, he was a member of the board of directors of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) and worked as an expert in the steam boiler association. He was also involved in training issues and was instrumental in establishing a new training workshop for the company. In addition, from 1928 to 1935 was a member of the administrative body of the Magdeburg Mechanical Engineering School.

During the Nazi era , he was the second chairman of the committee. Although he was not a member of the NSDAP , he became a military economic leader of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War . In the final phase of the Second World War he was arrested by the Gestapo for making defeatist statements . There was also a sentence of several years in prison, which he no longer had to serve due to the end of the war and the collapse of the National Socialist tyranny. On December 29, 1945, he was dismissed along with other senior executives at the Buckau R. Wolf AG machine factory, which has since been confiscated by the Soviet military administration in Germany .

After the war, until 1947 he was the state commissioner of the state government of Saxony-Anhalt for the manufacture of plants for cement production . He was then accused of political unreliability because of his activities in the Third Reich, which led to his dismissal.

From 1949 to 1951 he was director of the Grevenbroich plant .

literature

• Werner Hohaus: Notz, Heinrich. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 521.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günter Hammerschmidt , Magdeburg company founder , Part IV, Magdeburg 2010, page 198
2. ^ Günter Hammerschmidt, Magdeburg company founder, Part IV, Magdeburg 2010, page 299