Kurt Möbius

Kurt Möbius (born May 21, 1908 in Mulda ; † December 17, 1993 ) was a German chemist who worked as a fire protection and fire department specialist. He worked in the private sector and in the public service, most recently as Hessian state fire director.

Life

Möbius attended school in Mulda and Pirna , where he graduated from high school in 1927. After military service in the Reichswehr, he studied mechanical engineering at the Dresden Technical University from the summer semester of 1928 , where he became a member of the Corps Albingia . For the winter semester 1930/1931 he moved to the University of Marburg , where he studied chemistry, physics and biology. In Marburg he became a member of the Corps Irminsul . He also did boxing and was a German college champion in boxing . Möbius finished his studies in 1934 with the first state examination in physics and biology at the Technical University of Dresden. In 1935 the main diploma examination in chemistry followed. He was briefly an assistant at the chemical institute of the Technical University and at the Leuna-Werke in Merseburg and in 1936 joined the fire police in Berlin. This made him the first chemist in Germany to work in the fire department. In 1938 he passed the great state examination.

In 1939 Möbius was drafted into military service in the Wehrmacht. He was a reserve officer, most recently a major and regimental commander of fire protection pioneer units. After the war he was temporarily given a position as plant manager at the peat works in Ekelmoor . In 1948 he became head of department at the Total fire extinguishing device factory in Ladenburg . In 1953 he returned to the public service as fire director and head of the professional fire brigade in Wiesbaden .

In 1956 he became regional fire director in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior. Möbius played a major role in rebuilding an operational professional fire service organization in Hesse. In 1967 he retired and devoted himself to the publication of the manual on preventive fire protection , which developed into the standard work in his field.

literature

• Harald Ortwig : Kurt Möbius. In: Deutsche Corpszeitung , Vol. 95 (1994), pp. 185f.