Kurt Grunert
Kurt Grunert (born May 14, 1877 in Zittau ; † April 7, 1955 there ) was a German mechanical engineer, entrepreneur and inventor of a process for the production of spinnable staple fibers from artificial silk .
Life
From 1898 to 1901 Kurt Grunert studied electrical engineering and mechanical engineering at the Mittweida technical center . From 1910 he worked as a senior engineer at JP Bemberg AG in Barmen and from 1918 at Küttner in Pirna in the establishment of Zellstoffverwertungs AG (Zellvag), of which he was a board member from 1920 to 1925. In 1925 he founded the Grunert and Gianetti company in Turin for the manufacture of artificial copper silk . In the same year Grunert founded the Kruschwitz Textilmaschinenbau GmbH in Olbersdorf and manufactured the "Gru-Gru cutting machine".
From 1934 Kurt Grunert worked as a freelance engineer in Zittau. House 6 of the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences is named “Grunert de Jacome Bau” in his honor.
literature
- Jan-Peter Domschke, Sabine Dorn, Hansgeorg Hofmann, Rosemarie Poch, Marion Stascheit: Mittweida's engineers all over the world. Hochschule Mittweida (ed.): Mittweida 2014, p. 46 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grunert, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mechanical engineer, entrepreneur and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zittau |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1955 |
| Place of death | Zittau |