Johann Wilhelm van Heys

Johann Wilhelm van Heys (born July 13, 1871 in Berg und Tal bei Kleve ; † February 5, 1960 in Kleve) was a German civil engineer who worked as a ministerial advisor in the Reich Ministry of Transport and was an early proponent of wind power for generating electricity.

Life

As the son of the landowner Johann Wilhelm van Heys and his wife Margarethe Katharina van Heys born. Becker attended grammar school and obtained his Abitur on March 9, 1891 . He then studied civil engineering from 1891 to 1895 at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . On November 9, 1893, he passed the state preliminary examination. The first state examination followed on November 24, 1895 and the second state examination on June 22, 1899.

He then worked as a government architect ( Assessor ) in the state railways and was on 1 April 1906 railway - inspector promoted. In this capacity, he wrote several examination books on the operation of locomotives . On April 28, 1912 he was promoted to government and building councilor. From 1910 to 1919, in addition to his professional activity in Kassel, he was active as a city ​​councilor in local politics.

On July 1, 1916, he was released from civil service at his own request and headed the Große Casseler Straßenbahn AG as director . He then worked from January 6, 1920 as a self-employed civil engineer . On April 26, 1921, he was appointed to the Reich Ministry of Transport as Ministerialrat.

From December 31, 1921, he was a member of the supervisory board of Rhein-Main-Donau AG , and from January 17, 1926, also of the supervisory board of Lahnkraftwerke AG . He also held a position on the board of directors of the Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Hydropower at Walchensee . He was also a member of the editorial team of the specialist journal Deutsche Wasserwirtschaft .

In the 1930s he wrote a book about the use of wind power to generate electricity, which was reprinted several times over the next twenty years and also reissued in expanded form. In it he also showed wind turbines with several blades.

Since April 12, 1901, he was married to Elisabeth Nanny Auguste Ballauff, the daughter of senior building officer Theodor Ballauff. The couple had three children. In Berlin, the family lived in Groß-Lichterfelde .

Fonts

• The electricity. Their creation and use in a generally understandable representation. Berlin 1906.
• The exam to become a train driver and stoker. Part 2: the locomotive. Berlin 1909.
• The exam to become a train driver and stoker. Part 3: The cars and the brakes. Berlin 1910.
• Concise guide to the locomotive heater exam. (= Siemenroth's examination books for railway workers , Volume VI.) Nieder-Ramstadt 1911.
• The new power station in the royal seat of Cassel. Kassel 1912.
• Germany's electricity industry. Dresden 1931.
• What every German should know about wind power. 1933.
• Wind and wind turbines. Berlin 1947.

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? 10th edition, Berlin 1935.