Joachim Krüger (Metallurgist)

Joachim Krüger (born June 16, 1933 in Eberswalde , Brandenburg ) is a German metallurgist and university professor . He comes from a Silesian family. His father was the engineer Max Krüger (1903–1971), who at the time worked for the Hirsch copper and brass works in Finow ( Finow brass works ). Joachim Krüger is married to Barbara geb. Pyrkosch (* 1936).

Career

After graduating from high school in 1951, Joachim Krüger completed a commercial apprenticeship at Boehringer in Ingelheim, then studied from 1954 to 1960 at the Institute for Metallurgy and Electrometallurgy (IME) at RWTH Aachen University with Helmut Winterhager . His doctorate in 1966 on the subject of vacuum metallurgy was followed by his habilitation in 1971 with a thesis on vacuum-technical extraction and refining of metals . From 1971 to 1977 Kruger was at the Metallgesellschaft belonging Lurgi active in Frankfurt am Main in the plant construction.

Initially a student of Helmut Winterhager , he became his successor in 1977 at the Chair of Metallurgy and Electrometallurgy (IME), which he held until his retirement in 1999. He headed the Metallurgy Institute with around 40 employees for around 22 years. His pupil Bernd Friedrich became his successor in 1999.

In 1978 and 1979, Krüger took over two professorial positions at the Montanuniversität Leoben ( Styria ). Furthermore, Krüger had given numerous lectures and lectures in Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, China, GDR, Finland, France, Great Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Turkey and the USA.

Joachim Krüger was awarded the Georg Agricola commemorative coin in 2004.

literature

• Joachim Krüger: Refining of technical vanadium in an electron beam furnace , Aachen 1966, Diss. Sept 12, 1966
• Joachim Krüger: Application of vacuum technology in the extraction and refining of metals . Aachen 1971
• Helmut Winterhager; Joachim Krüger; Hans J. Gottwald: Carbothermal and metallothermal reduction of refractory metals in a vacuum . Opladen 1973
• Helmut Winterhager; Joachim Krüger: Processing of copper end electrolytes by dialysis and electrodialysis . Opladen 1976
• Joachim Krüger (ed.). Elinor Rombach; Georg Rombach; Peter Winkler: 100 years of metallurgy at RWTH Aachen University. History of a chair / RWTH, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen ; IME, Institute for Metallurgy and Electrometallurgy. Aachen 1998

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Krüger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Vita in: Erzmetall , No. 55, 2001, p.43 (engl.)
• Brief portrait and list of publications on the IME website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ from GDMB - News in ERZMETALL issue 4/2008; ISSN  1613-2394 , in GDMB-Medienverlag, 38668 Clausthal-Zellerfeld
2. ↑ Bearer of the Georg Agricola commemorative coin