Joseph Schlink

Valentin Joseph Schlink (born July 18, 1831 in Trier , † August 14, 1893 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German engineer and ironworker .

Life

Joseph Schlink, son of a lawyer , studied chemistry and mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic from 1848–1852 after attending the Realgymnasium in Cologne . He then worked as an engineer first in the Royal Sayner Hüttenverwaltung and then at the mechanical engineering institute Kamp & Co. in Wetter (Ruhr) , in the German-Holland works in Hochfeld and in the Dortmunder Hütte .

In 1866 Schlink became the technical director of the Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The focus of his work was the construction of the blast furnace in order to develop the smelter into one of the most modern plants. Two blast furnaces were built, which were among the most efficient of the time. His series of essays on blower machines was considered a standard work.

Schlink was one of the founders of the Technical Association for Ironworks (1860) and then the Association of German Ironworkers (VDEh) (1880). He immediately pushed for the club magazine Stahl und Eisen to be published . In 1889 he was the initiator and co-author of the common description of the iron and steel industry , which was published again and again. In 1890 he campaigned for the establishment of the Association of Rhenish-Westphalian Mechanical Engineering Institutions , from which the Association of German Mechanical Engineering Institutions emerged in 1892 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralf Stremmel: Joseph Schlink (1831-1893) . In: Steel and Iron . tape 119 , no. 9 , 1999, p. 153 .
2. ^ Ralf Stremmel:  Schlink, Valentin Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 91 f. ( Digitized version ).
3. ^ Joseph Schlink: About blower machines . In: Annals for trade and construction . 1879.