Karl Bodenstab

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Karl Bodenstab (also: Carl Bodenstab ; * June 20, 1866 in Hanover ; † August 6, 1935 there ) was a German business leader in the field of asphalt .

Life

Karl Bodenstab was born in Hanover a few years before the founding of the German Empire .

In 1911 he had developed a "process for the granulation of blast furnace slag and other melts using blast furnace slag", which he presented from his Hanover address at Wolfstrasse 11 in the journal Stahl und Eisen . In the following year, a description of the Bodenstab was published in the journal for applied chemistry and the central sheet for technical chemistry . He had also applied for a patent under the number DP 242943 .

Towards the end of the Weimar Republic in 1929 at the latest , he was both general director and a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Asphalt corporation of " Limmer and Vorwohler Grubenfelder ". From Hanover, Bodenstab was also responsible for the asphalt pits in Ahlem . Also in 1929 and at the addresses Arnswaldstrasse 34 and Callinstrasse 9 also as a representative of Section IX of the quarry trade association .

Bodenstab headed the company, which is even known in the USA for “German asphalt”, for a total of 23 years . He tirelessly advised the Technical University of Hanover and the one in Braunschweig . He succeeded in introducing chilled cast asphalt for the construction of driveways on a large scale.

In 1931 Bodenstab was given an honorary doctorate as Dr.-Ing. E. h. awarded by the Braunschweig Technical University.

Bodenstabstrasse

The traffic route, which was laid out in Ahlem in 1952 and initially named after the field name Büntestrasse and connects Richard-Lattorf-Strasse with Gartenstrasse, was renamed in 1978 after the general director of Deutsche Asphalt.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Helmut Zimmermann : Bodenstabstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 42
  2. ↑ a b c Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , p. 91 ( preview via Google books ).
  3. ↑ Stahl und Eisen , Vol. 31, Part 2, Verlag Stahleisen, 1911, p. 1188; Preview over google books
  4. ^ Journal of Applied Chemistry and Central Journal for Technical Chemistry ; Vol. 25, Part 1, Springer, 1912, p. 443; Preview over google books
  5. ^ Metall und Erz: Zeitschrift für Metallhüttenwesen und Erzbergbau , Volume 9, W. Knapp., 1912, p. 468; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ a b N.N. : Bodenstab / Karl in the list of street names to be retained (of the state capital Hanover), ed. by the Urban Remembrance Culture team under the working title Scientific analysis of eponymous personalities , downloadable from the hannover.de website in the version dated September 29, 2015
  7. ^ Albert Lefèvre: Asphalt , in ders .: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 24 (1970), p. 175 f.
personal data
SURNAME Floor stick, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Floor stick, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general director in the field of asphalt, engineer and honorary doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1935
Place of death Hanover