Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth

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Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth (born August 11, 1933 in Deutzen ; † November 22, 2019 in Hohenmölsen ) was a German graduate mining engineer , honorary professor for opencast mining technology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and top mining manager . His main areas of work were lignite opencast mines in central Germany. He is considered an excellent representative of the mining sciences in practice and theory.

Life

Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth was born in the central German open -cast mining region as a child of a family with an old mining tradition. The father Georg Bilkenroth had studied at the Clausthal mining academy and was works director of the Kraft II lignite mine in Deutzen from 1935 , technical manager of the Salzdetfurth AG lignite works in Berlin from 1940 and did his doctorate at the Freiberg mining academy. He was significantly involved in the development of the GDR's lignite industry . Along with Erich Rammler he developed in 1949 at the Freiberg the technology of lignite high temperature gasification to produce Braunkohlenhochtemperaturkoks (BHT-coke), for which he in 1951 with the National Prize of East Germany was appreciated. On BHT-base also were low shaft in Calbe (Saale) built for pig iron production. In 1955 he was elected a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW). His son Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth acquired the professional qualification from the bottom up. After graduating from high school and basic mining training, he studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony , where he became a qualified mining engineer in 1953 .

Here he continued his academic education continues his doctorate in 1962 for Doktoringenieur (Dr.-Ing.) And habilitation is below 1966. Subsequently Bilkenroth Technical Director of the lignite plant Deuben , later the United plant Deuben / Profen , and finally he was appointed as chief engineer in charge for the entire central German lignite mining industry. Many mining problems were resolved under his leadership.

At the same time, Bilkenroth participated in the Bergakademie Freiberg in the academic training of mining engineers. In 1980 he became an honorary lecturer there and in 1983 an honorary professor for opencast mining technology .

The German reunification of 1990 hit the lignite industry in Central Germany particularly hard. Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth was one of the few who campaigned to make lignite mining in the Central German district economically and ecologically justifiable. In June 1990 he was appointed as the authorized managing director for the transformation of the state-owned coal operations into corporations. In December 1990, the supervisory board of Mitteldeutsche Braunkohle-AG appointed him chairman of the board of MIBRAG . The viable part of the farms was privatized in 1994. From 1994 to 1996 Bilkenroth was the management spokesman and managing director for technology at Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH. After it was merged with the corresponding redevelopment company for the Lusatian lignite mining area to form the LMBV with its headquarters in Senftenberg , Bilkenroth acted as an advisor to the LMBV for mining and redevelopment issues and then as a member of the MIBRAG supervisory board .

Memberships and honors (selection)

  • The learned society Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin elected him as a member in 2000. The title of his inaugural lecture was "Energy in the 21st Century - Shaping the Energy Future". This marked the beginning of a period of more than ten years, during which Bilkenroth actively campaigned for the further, contemporary promotion of the mining sciences within the framework of this learned society. Here he was a member of the working group "Geo-, Mining, Environmental, Space and Astro Sciences". This working group regularly prepares publications and in particular conducts scientific colloquia; his long-time spokesman was Heinz Kautzleben .
  • In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth awarded in December 2000, the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class. In the laudation it says: “Prof. Bilkenroth has done a decisive part in ensuring that the Central German lignite mining industry has successfully survived difficult times and that it is today a significant economic factor in the form of MIBRAG mbH and ROMONTA in the area. "ROMONTA has been extracting raw montan wax since the 19th century bituminous lignite in the Oberröblingen district .
  • Like most representatives of the mining sciences in the GDR, Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth was associated with the Freiberg Mining Academy all his life. Today's Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg (TU BAF) honored his “outstanding services in promoting the Bergakademie Freiberg as a university lecturer, industrial partner and honorary post” with his election as an honorary senator . The honorary senator status is the highest honor awarded by the TU BAF.
  • In 1990/91 Bilkenroth was one of the re-founders of the association “Friends and Sponsors of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg e. V. “and since then has been a member of the association's board. In 2009, the board of directors presented its highest award, the St. Barbara Medal of Honor , to Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth for his many years of service to the association and to the TU Bergakademie.

Publications (selection)

  • Problems of multi-seam opencast mines. German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1963.
  • Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth (Scientific Director): Lignite in research and teaching at the Bergakademie Freiberg. Published on the occasion of the 125th birthday of Prof. Dr. eh Karl Kegel on May 19, 2001. Association of friends and sponsors of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg e. V., Freiberg 2001.
  • Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth: Traces in Central German lignite. Open pit technical conference on the occasion of the award of an honorary doctorate from the TU Bergakademie Freiberg to Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth, April 20, 2005. Ed .: TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Professorship of opencast mining 2006.
  • Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth (co-author): Bitterfeld lignite mining and industrial history, geology of the Goitsche lignite and amber deposit. District Office Bitterfeld, Bitterfeld 2007.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth: Problems of multi-seam opencast mines. Dissertation, Bergakademie, Faculty of Mining and Metallurgy, Freiberg 1962. Bergakademie. Born in 1962, no. 4/5.
  2. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Bilkenroth: Investigations into the cheapest design of the train mine. Mining Academy, Faculty of Mining, Habilitation thesis, Freiberg 1966.
personal data
SURNAME Bilkenroth, Klaus-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining engineer, honorary professor and mining manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Deutzen
DATE OF DEATH 22nd November 2019
Place of death Hohenmölsen