Karl-Heinz Zieger

Karl-Heinz Zieger (born October 15, 1911 in Freiberg , † August 30, 1982 in Eisenhüttenstadt ) was a German ironworker .

Life

Karl-Heinz Zieger studied metallurgy at the Bergakademie Freiberg . In 1931 he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Freiberg . He completed his studies in 1937 as a Dipl.-Ing. from. In the same year he became a furnace engineer at Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen . After the Second World War he became head of the blast furnace at Maxhütte in Unterwellenborn , where he also founded the technical college for pig iron production . In 1950 he was entrusted with the planning of the steel and rolling mill in Brandenburg and the East German Ironworks Combine. Zieger became head of the blast furnace, smelter and production director of the East German Combine in Eisenhüttenstadt, which he significantly expanded in the following years by building more blast furnaces.

Awards

Awarded the National Prize of the GDR 1st class for science and technology, 1952 (collective award together with Rudolf Stoof and Horst König)
Posthumous honor at a state funeral of the GDR, 1982

literature

Zieger, Karl-Heinz . In: Adolf Berve, Herbert Dieter Nienhaus, Kurt Schröter, Gerhard Voigt, Karl Heinz Weber: Chronicle of the Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen, Part II - Corps Saxo-Borussia Freiberg i. Sa. 1842-1935 (1951) , main section II, pp. 280, 309

Individual evidence

^ New Germany , August 10, 1960
^ New Germany , October 28, 1960
^ New Germany , October 7, 1952

Remarks

↑ 1951 he became old man of the Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen

personal data
SURNAME	Zieger, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ironworker
DATE OF BIRTH	October 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH	August 30, 1982
Place of death	Eisenhüttenstadt

[2] New Germany , August 10, 1960

[3] New Germany , October 28, 1960

[4] New Germany , October 7, 1952

[1] 1951 he became old man of the Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen