Josef Massenez

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Josef Massenez, photo 1890

Josef (Joseph) Massenez (born December 26, 1839 in Grünstadt , † December 24, 1923 in Wiesbaden ) was a German engineer and industrialist .

Life

Hörder Burg , eclectic administrative headquarters of the Hörder Mining and Hüttenverein , photo 2011
Historic villa at Humboldtstrasse 14 in Wiesbaden , residence of Josef Massenez from 1903, photo 2013

Massenez was the son of Ludwig Massenez († 1881), a French teacher at the Progymnasium Grünstadt (then part of the Bavarian Palatinate ), whose ancestors had immigrated from Alsace , and Franziska Behlen († 1892). Massenez attended high school in Speyer and initially studied law at Ludwig Maximilians University ; In 1858 he became active in the Corps Franconia Munich . As an inactive he switched - following his interest in mathematics and natural sciences - to mining and metallurgy at the Bergakademie Leoben ( Styria ), where Peter Tunner was one of his academic teachers.

In Ruhrort , Duisburg - Hochfeld , Nadja Hunya ( Transylvania ) and Salzgitter , he worked as a metallurgical engineer , especially in blast furnace construction . From 1874 to 1891, officially until 1893, he headed the Hörder Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein in Hörde near Dortmund , together with Hermann G. Beitter (1829–1875) until 1875, then with Gustav Hilgenstock (1844–1913). In this function he made a significant contribution to the development of the German iron and steel industry (→ steel production ). On April 26, 1879 - together with Gustave Léon Pastor from the Rheinische Stahlwerke in Meiderich - he initiated the patenting of the Thomas process in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Luxembourg. This opened the way to large-scale industrial steel production in the Ruhr area . On September 22nd, 1879, the first "Thomasstahl" was blown in Hörde and Meiderich at the same time.

In 1885 Massenez founded the Europäische Wassergas-Aktiengesellschaft , on April 13, 1889 the Rheinische Metallwaaren- und Maschinenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft in Düsseldorf , today Rheinmetall . Between 1876 and 1879 he campaigned for the reintroduction of pig iron tariffs (→ protective tariff policy ). In 1885 and from 1887 to 1891 he was President of the Dortmund Chamber of Commerce . Massenez was also the initiator of the Central Association of German Industrialists , which he was involved in founding in 1876, and a functionary of the Association of German Ironworkers (VDEh) , from whose board he resigned at the end of 1906. He was also a member of the Prussian Economic Council. In 1885 he joined the German Colonial Association .

Massenez spent his old age in Wiesbaden, where he had settled down as a civil engineer after de facto leaving the Hörder Verein in 1891 , and - after 1911 - at Gutenfels Castle above Kaub am Rhein . Together with his son Otto, Massenez acquired numerous patents in Germany and other European countries between 1903 and 1922; They also invested with the mining company Vivero Iron Ore Company Ltd. to the Mina de la Silvarosa near Vivero in Galicia . The Technical University of Charlottenburg honored him with an honorary doctorate in 1909 , and the city of Dortmund with a street name in the Hacheney district .

Publications

  • The Phönix zu Laar blast furnace and rolling mill near Ruhrort . In: The structures on the mining, smelting and salt works in Prussia (1864)
  • Some remarks on the iron tariff and tariff question (1876)
  • On the classification of iron and steel (1878)
  • Notices about the dephosphorization process in the converter (1880)
  • On the Elimination of Sulfur from Pig Iron (1891)
  • Thirty years of the Thomas Trial in Germany . In: Stahl und Eisen , special print (1909)

literature

  • Obituary in: Eisen und Stahl. Journal for the German iron and steel industry . No. 44, 1924, p. 216
  • 75 years of the Association of German Ironworkers. 1860-1935. Düsseldorf 1935
  • 100 years of Dortmund-Hörder Hüttenunion AG , Essen 1952
  • Paul Hermann Mertes: 100 years of the Dortmund Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Outline of the history of a Ruhr Chamber of Commerce 1863–1963 . Dortmund 1963
  • Barbara Gerstein: Massenez, Josef . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) , Volume 16, 1990, pp. 359 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Kita, Thomas Weichel (state capital Wiesbaden): Some facts about Wiesbaden . P. 18 ( online, file in PDF )
  2. ^ Sixth Congress of International Association for Testing Materials , New York 1912, Volume 2, p. 6, ( online )
  3. ^ Obituary in: Stahl und Eisen, Volume 44, Part 1, p. 216, Association of German Ironworkers; (Detail scan)
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 108 , 243
  5. ↑ This may be an error. Hunedoara (Hungarian: Vajdahunyad ) is known as a similar sounding mining and smelting location in Transylvania .
  6. ^ Lars Ulrich Scholl: Engineers in early industrialization: state and private technicians in the Kingdom of Hanover and on the Ruhr (1815–1873) . Studies on natural science, technology and economics in the nineteenth century, Volume 10, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 3-525-42209-1 , p. 378 ( online )
  7. ↑ Manfred Toncourt, Astrid Dörnemann: The Thomas method in Europe. Origin, development, end . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2009, p. 70
  8. ^ Otto Johannsen: History of Iron , Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1924, p. 200 ( online, file in PDF )
  9. ^ Steel and iron. Journal for the German Metallurgy of January 2, 1907 (No. 1, Volume 27), Verlag A. Bagel, Düsseldorf, p. 10 ( online, file in PDF in the portal delibra.bg.polsl.pl )
  10. ↑ Entry Dr. Ing.hc Massenez, Joseph in the portal dortmund-postkolonial.de , accessed on April 13, 2014
  11. ^ Robert R. Taylor: The Castles of the Rhine. Recreating the Middle Ages in Modern Germany . Wilfried Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 1998, ISBN 0-88920-268-0 , p. 362, footnote 32 ( online )
  12. ↑ Article Burg Gutenfels in the portal regionalgeschichte.net , accessed on April 13, 2014
  13. ^ Walter Robert Skinner, Walter E. Skinner: Mining Manual Containing Full Particulars of Mining Companies , Financial Times, 1913, p. 1165
  14. ↑ See article Mina de la Silvarosa in the Spanish language Wikipedia
  15. ^ Dortmund, Massenezstr. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the straßenfotos.de portal , accessed on April 13, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.strassenfotos.de
  16. ↑ Online reference in the books.google.de portal , accessed on April 13, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Massenez, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Massenez, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1923
Place of death Wiesbaden