Johannes Adolph

Johannes Adolph (born April 17, 1882 in Kiel ; † November 9, 1958 ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur .

Life

After attending secondary school in Kiel, he studied electrical engineering and mechanical engineering at the technical universities in Berlin-Charlottenburg , Munich and Aachen . Adolph received his doctorate in Aachen and then worked in industry and municipal administration as a project engineer and as a machine engineer. From 1924 he became director and member of the board of the Berliner Städtische Elektrizitätswerke / Berliner Kraft- und Licht AG (BEWAG) and lived in Berlin-Nikolassee . He lived there at Rehwiese 3 since 1924 and in 1935 had the company's in-house architect, Hans Heinrich Müller , build a new building next to it, which is now a listed buildingerecting the standing house Adolph . In the Nikolassee villa colony, this building is "one of the few individually planned single-family houses that were newly built during the Nazi era ".

After the Second World War , he lived in Hamburg in 1957 .

Johannes Adolph died in 1958 at the age of 76. His grave is in the Evangelical Cemetery Nikolassee in Berlin.

Works

• The development of the passenger tariff for an overland tram in the Rhenish-Westphalian coal district , Bochum, [1918]
• Shop window and advertising lighting. Lecture , Berlin, [1935]
• (with others): Expert opinion on the maintenance of reserves in power plants and line networks in the West German electricity supply , Frankfurt / M., 1952

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 9.
• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Berlin: Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag 1930, p. 9.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Documentation at the Landesdenkmalamt Berlin.
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 624.