Kurt Koloc

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Kurt Koloc (born May 14, 1904 in Dresden ; † December 2, 1967 there ) was a German university professor. He is considered to be the founder of business administration at the Technical University of Dresden , which he headed from 1949 to 1953 as rector .

Life

After primary school, Koloc initially completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith from 1918 to 1921, and also attended the municipal trade school. Then he ended up in the Ruhr area, where he worked as a miner until 1924. Then he returned to his Saxon homeland, where he found a job as a fitter in the Copitzer ironworks. In 1928 Koloc enrolled as a working student at the Technical University of Dresden, where he studied mechanical engineering and business administration. After the National Socialists came to power, however, he was expelled in 1933 for his work for the Socialist Student Union . He was only able to continue his studies in 1938, which he graduated with a diploma in 1939. Koloc then found a job at Rheinmetall-Borsig AG in Berlin-Tegel , where he worked as a standardization engineer. Since nothing is known about military service in publications about Koloc, it can be assumed that he was in this eminently important arms factory as UK . was asked. After the end of the war, Koloc found a job as a consultant for standardization and typing in the German Central Administration for Industry, which was founded in 1945 in the Soviet-occupied part of Berlin. When the reconstruction of the Technical University progressed in his hometown Dresden, it was of great interest to Koloc as well. After resuming teaching on October 1, 1946, he was appointed to the chair for general trade teaching and standardization at what was then the so-called Faculty of Local Economy. This was preceded by his doctorate in March 1946, for which he had submitted the dissertation on the best use of materials and auxiliary materials to Ewald Sachsenberg . Due to his field of teaching, Koloc was appointed to the advisory board of the State Labor Inspectorate and the board of the State Chamber of Technology in Saxony. Some time later he headed the Chamber of Technology as chairman for a few years. In 1948 Koloc was elected as a representative of the Kulturbund at the 2nd German People's Congress in the 1st German People's Council. In addition to him, the TH Dresden was represented by Hans Reingruber with another member of the People's Council. Under Koloc, the Institute for Industrial Management and Standardization was founded at the TH in 1949, which put the previously existing test field for packaging standards back into operation. There was no renewed appointment to the now 2nd German People's Council for the institute director. Instead, he was elected to succeed Werner Straub as the new rector of the university in autumn 1949 and was introduced to his office on November 10, 1949. This office led, among other things, to Koloc running again for parliamentary office as a representative of the Kulturbund in the fall of 1950, and he was again a member of the People's Chamber for an electoral term until 1954. Under Koloc's aegis, a gas engine , for which Nicolaus Otto and Eugen Langen received a gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1867 , was erected as a technical monument on the Zeuner building on the university campus. After Koloc had experienced the 125th anniversary of the university as rector, he was replaced by geodesist Horst Peschel in autumn 1953 . Subsequently, Koloc devoted himself mainly to teaching and research, in 1954 he became director of the newly founded industrial institute. From 1957 to 1960 he was also dean of the technology faculty.

After a long and serious illness, Koloc died in December 1967 in his hometown of Dresden.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Zeit , November 8, 1949, p. 6
  2. ^ Klaus Mauersberger: Machine parts as art objects . In: Universitätsjournal , Volume 7, No. 13, July 9, 1996, p. 3 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 5, 1967, p. 2
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , November 29, 1952, p. 5
  5. ^ Berliner Zeitung , October 7, 1957, p. 2

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personal data
SURNAME Koloc, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koloc, Kurt Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, rector of the TH Dresden, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1967
Place of death Dresden