Karl-August Wetjen

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Karl-August Wetjen (born February 7, 1925 in Hanover ; † January 25, 2014 ) was a German process engineer and member of the Board of Management of BASF AG from 1977 to 1987 .

Life

Karl-August Wetjen studied apparatus and process engineering in Bremen and Karlsruhe . He then worked as an assistant in Karlsruhe , where he received his doctorate in 1953. In the following year, he joined BASF, where he was promoted to the Board of Management in 1977 and stayed until 1987. His portfolio included the foam, polyurethane and composite materials divisions. He was also responsible for the country area Brazil as well as engineering technology and technical development. In 1979 he was appointed honorary professor in the chemical engineering department of the TH Karlsruhe .

Signed Wetjen 2001 twice in the Junge Freiheit printed appeal to the armed forces against the dismissal of conservative soldiers: the "case Götz Kubitschek " .

Wetjen married Maud Hedy Karst in 1955. Wetjen died after a short illness; he leaves five grown children.

Awards

Fonts

  • Heat transfer in the case of film condensation of flowing, air-containing water vapor on the vertical pipe. Dissertation. TH Karlsruhe 1953. DECHEMA Monographs, Volume 23. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim / Bergstrasse 1954, pp. 178-240.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Against the dismissal of conservative soldiers: The "Götz Kubitschek case". Archive of the newspaper Junge Freiheit from September 28, 2001 and September 14, 2001, accessed on August 11, 2010
  2. ↑ Die Zeit - Chronik of May 19, 1955, accessed on August 11, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Wetjen, Karl-August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wetjen, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and board member of BASF
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2014