Heinz Ullrich

This article deals with the designer and inventor Heinz Ullrich. For other people see Heinz Ulrich .

Heinz Ullrich (right), 1960

Max Robert Heinz Ullrich (born April 8, 1908 in Erfurt ; † March 7, 1978 in Magdeburg ) was a German designer and inventor.

Life

Ullrich was born the son of the metalworker Karl Otto Paul Ullrich . From 1922 to 1926 he completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith and then from 1927 to 1932 attended the technical college for mechanical engineering in Erfurt, which he graduated with honors. From 1933 he was employed by Bergmann AG in Berlin , before he then worked as a test engineer for the company L. & C. Steinmüller in Gummersbach from 1936 to 1944 . He was then called up as a soldier for military service and after the end of the Second World War he was employed by the company Topf & Sons in Erfurt- Bischleben . In 1948 he went to apparatus and furnace constructionWeimar and took over the management of the plant there. In the period from 1950 Ullrich worked on the preparation of the production of ship boilers for freighters, which were intended for the Soviet Union . He developed a new scraper grate which, combined with the capacity control of the plant, enabled controlled coal charging.

In 1952 he became head of boiler construction at VEB Schwermaschinenbau "Karl Liebknecht" (SKL) in the Salbke district of Magdeburg . His tasks included preparing the steam generator for the Vockerode and Finkenheerd power plants . Based on the Schmidt-Hartmann principle , he developed a two-circuit small boiler in 1956, which made only minor demands on the quality of the feed water. For export to Egypt and China , in the mid-1950s, he developed a boiler that burned bagasse , a waste product from cane sugar production and automatically fed the fuel into the boiler mechanically. In other works he dealt with the combustion of toxic hydrogen sulfide . Here, too, he found new solutions to difficult technical problems that went far beyond what had been customary in this area up to that point.

He held the position of head of boiler construction until 1960. He then led the negotiations to set up the chemical plant construction of the SKL, in which basic equipment for the GDR chemical industry was manufactured. From 1965 he went back to apparatus engineering.

literature

• Ernst Roth: Ullrich, Max Robert Heinz. 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. 745.