Heinrich Reisner

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Heinrich Reisner, bronze sculpture by Jürgen Ebert (2011), west of the House of Technology in Essen

Heinrich Julius Reisner (born July 19, 1881 in Schrimm an der Warthe , † August 12, 1969 in Essen ) was a German civil engineer and founder and director of the Haus der Technik (HDT) in Essen.

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After graduating from high school in 1900, the son of a farmer and brickworks owner studied construction and engineering , natural sciences and geology at the universities in Berlin, Eberswalde and Rostock . In 1906 he passed the exams to become a qualified engineer and was then employed in various positions in the private sector, including as a water manager and hydrologist . Its hydrological research on the Ruhr and its study The water in the Ruhr area were fundamental to the Memorandum of Karl Imhoff about the pollution of the Ruhr (written in 1910, in 1912 published as a book), which in turn pave the way for the 1913 adopted Prussian Ruhr pollution control law and the establishment of the Ruhr Association prepared.

In the course of these years, Reisner recognized the urgent need for continuous further training for engineers due to the rapidly developing progress, especially in the technical and scientific professions. For this purpose he founded the " Rheinisch-Westfälische Gesellschaft für die Exakten Wissenschaften zu Essen " in 1909 , which was supposed to organize further training for engineers. Three years later, he advocated the establishment of a corresponding official and recognized training institute based in Essen, both at the general meeting of this company and with the help of a publication in the publication “ Scientific aspiration in the Rheinisch-Westphalian industrial district ” - but a positive decision was initially made still postponed.

In the meantime, Reisner was taken over in 1915 as editor and full-time technical editor at the Essen “Girardet-Verlag” of the Wilhelm Girardet family of entrepreneurs , to which he belonged until 1933 and for the last three years as a freelance employee. He did not lose sight of his vision of a training institute and founded the “ Society for Science and Life in Rhenish-Westphalia ”, which still exists today, in 1919 together with the Mayor of Essen Hans Luther , the chemist Franz Fischer and the banker Wilhelm von Waldthausen Industriegebiet "as the new" umbrella company for scientific, cultural and economic endeavors ", into which his previous" Society for the exact sciences "has been taken over. Despite the help of these influential people, Reisner had to wait a few more years. In the meantime, in 1924, he was at the Dresden Technical University with a dissertation on water management Hydrological studies for hydropower plants doctorate .

Finally, the desired training institute was set up as a " House of Technology " in the building wing of the Essen Stock Exchange and opened by him personally on November 21, 1927 in his role as the first managing director of the HDT. Three years later he was appointed director of this institute, which is why he was only able to continue his publishing activities at Girardet-Verlag on a freelance basis. With the " seizure of power " by the NSDAP in 1933, Reisner was dismissed from all of his offices and duties for political reasons.

After the destruction of the building complex in the Second World War , Reisner took part in the rebuilding of the institute immediately after the end of the war as the re-appointed director. The RWTH Aachen showed interest in this institution and founded here in 1946 a new branch office. As a result of this cooperation, Heinrich Reisner was also taken on by RWTH Aachen University in the same year as an honorary professor with the subject " History and cultural significance of technology ".

After retiring from active professional life for reasons of age in 1951, Reisner was initially granted honorary citizenship of RWTH Aachen on May 25, 1951 for the successful collaboration between the HDT and RWTH Aachen, and ten years later he was made an honorary senator . As part of a ceremony to mark his 85th birthday, Heinrich Reisner, who was known as the “lawyer for engineers” and an extremely committed person with a high level of contact and integration skills, was awarded the city of Essen's golden seal.

Heinrich Reisner was among other things a member of the history committee of the Association of German Ironworkers, today's steel institute VDEh , and since 1953 in the German Society for the History of Medicine, Natural Sciences and Technology eV (DGGMNT). From 1948 to 1951 he was a board member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

He was buried in the Bredeney cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

  • The floods in July 1907 in County Glatz . In: Zeitschrift für Gewässerkunde , Vol. 9 (1909/1910), Issue 1, pp. 1–64.
  • The wolves . A hydrological study . In: Zeitschrift für Gewässerkunde , Vol. 9 (1909/1910), Issue 2, pp. 159–182.
  • The universities of technology in Europe . Girardet, Essen 1916 (= special print from Anzeiger für Berg-, Metall- und Maschinenwesen , year 1916).
  • Collection and promotion of scientific endeavors in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial district . Rhenish-Westphalian Society for the Exact Sciences in Essen, Essen 1919.
  • Guide through the hydraulic engineering and inland navigation exhibition, Essen 1922, March 31 to April 30 . Boeckling & Müller, Essen 1922.
  • Guide through the heat exhibition, Essen 1922, June 17 to July 16 . General Advertisements GmbH (Ala) / United Advertisement Companies Haasenstein & Vogler, Daube & Co., Essen 1922.
  • Hydrological and water management studies in hydropower plants . Dissertation, TU Dresden 1924.
  • The training questions in technology . In: Ruhr and Rhine. Business newspaper published by the chambers of industry and commerce in Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg-Wesel, Essen, Krefeld . Vol. 9 (1928), pp. 818-823.
  • Construction in the Ruhr region 1904–1929 . Girardet, Essen 1929.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ In August 2018 the sculpture was dismantled.
  2. ↑ See the entry of Heinrich Reisner's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Karl Imhoff: Keeping the Ruhr pure . CW Haarfeld, Essen-Ruhr 1912, p. 5.
  4. ^ Marie-Luise Heuser , Wolfgang König : Tabular compilations on the history of the VDI . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 590-591 .
personal data
SURNAME Reisner, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reisner, Heinrich Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer, technical editor and founder and director of the "House of Technology" in Essen
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Schrimm at the Warta
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1969
Place of death eat