Karl-August Zimmermann

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Karl-August Zimmermann (born September 17,  1927 in Duisburg , † February 17,  2004 in Voerde (Niederrhein) ) was a German ironworker and manager of the German steel industry.

Life

Karl-August Zimmermann studied metallurgy at the Clausthal mining academy . In 1950 he became active in the Corps Montania Clausthal . In 1954 he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. From the Faculty of Mining and Metallurgy at the Clausthal Mining Academy. PhD. He then joined the Thyssen Group , where, after positions in production, he was promoted to a board member responsible for the technology department. The commissioning of what was then Europe's largest blast furnace in Hamborn and the elimination of acoustical problems that arose during commissioning took place in the early days of his position on the board . After an internal conflict with Dieter Spethmann in 1984 , he lost his department and was a member of the board with no competencies.

Zimmermann was a member of the supervisory boards of Rasselstein AG and AEG Aktiengesellschaft. He was also a member of the iron and steel industry employers' association. From 1989 to 1994 he was chairman of the steel institute VDEh .

Awards

  • Dr.-Ing. E. h.
  • Honorary member of the steel institute VDEh, appointed in 1995

Fonts

  • The carbonate Bülten ore as a coolant in the Thomas process , 1954
  • Planning of a program-controlled universal slab mill , 1963 (report of the rolling mill committee of the Association of German Ironworkers, No. 293)
  • Preparation of heavy profiles , 1965 (report of the rolling mill committee of the Association of German Ironworkers, No. 309, together with Siegfried Robert)
  • Influencing the blowing behavior in the oxygen top-up converter , 1966 (report of the steelworks committee of the Association of German Ironworkers, No. 830, together with Joachim Koenitzer)
  • Increase in the output of the foundry in an oxygen-blown steelworks by shortening the casting times , 1967 (report of the steelworks committee of the Association of German Ironworkers, No. 854, together with Rudolf Hammer, Joachim Koenitzer)
  • Operational experience in the production of low-carbon steels for flat steel production using the oxygen blowing process , 1969 (together with Gerhard Bauer, Joachim Koenitzer)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl August Zimmermann's obituary notice
  2. ^ Directory of Weinheimer Corps Students 1990, p. 533
  3. ↑ The monster roars again , articles in the period March 30, 1973
  4. ↑ Bill open , article in Der Spiegel of March 30, 1987
  5. ↑ Major Companies of Europe 1991-1992 Vol. 1, pp. 366, 561
  6. ↑ 150 years of the VDEh Steel Institute, a selection chronicle
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Karl-August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ironworker and manager of the German steel industry
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 2004
Place of death Voerde (Lower Rhine)