Hermann Potthoff
Karl Wilhelm Hermann Potthoff (born August 16, 1873 in Berlin , † March 19, 1951 in Hanover ) was a German mechanical engineer and university professor. He ran several locomotive factories .
Life
Potthoff became government building supervisor in 1899 and government building master in 1903 . After working as an assistant at the Technical University of Berlin, he obtained his doctorate in engineering in 1906 . and was active in the Prussian railway administration. In 1911 he became chief engineer of the Henschel & Sohn locomotive factory in Kassel, in 1917 general director of Rheinische Metallwaaren- und Maschinenfabrik Actiengesellschaft (later Rheinmetall ) in Düsseldorf and in 1924 board member of the Hohenzollern corporation for locomotive construction . During the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, when the occupying powers seized the railways, he and the general manager Hans Eltze were arrested on April 19 and in the " Ulmer Höh " together with u. a. the railway bomber Leo Schlageter detained. In 1928 he went to the Technical University of Hanover as professor for railways and motor vehicles , where he retired in 1938. On April 1, 1934, he was appointed Vice-Rector under Rector Horst von Sanden until 1936. As early as 1933, he made intensive efforts to be accepted into the NSDAP , but this did not take place until 1937. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .
Fonts
- with Otto Blum and Curt Risch : Tram and omnibus in the city center. Jena 1942.
literature
- Potthoff, (Karl Wilhelm) Hermann. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 8, de Gruyter Saur, Munich 2007, p. 46. (online)
- Michael Jung: “Our hearts beat to the Führer with great enthusiasm”: The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6451-3 . (partly online)
Single receipts
- ↑ ZBBauverwaltung 1903 ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ City history of Düsseldorf 1923
- ^ History of Rheinmetall
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Potthoff, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Potthoff, Karl Wilhelm Hermann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mechanical engineer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1951 |
| Place of death | Hanover |