Oskar olives

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Oskar Oliven (born April 1, 1870 in Breslau ; †  January 13, 1939 in Zurich ) was a German manager in mechanical engineering and the electrical industry .

Life

Olivens parents were Jacob Olives and his wife Augusta Olives née. Scottish people . After studying at the Technical University of Hanover , he initially worked as an engineer at the German Electricity Company in Buenos Aires . He married Sophie Alice, the daughter of Isidor Loewe (1848-1910), co-owner of Ludwig Loewe & Co. AG and in 1894 co-founder of the Society for Electrical Enterprises (Gesfürel).

In 1904 he was appointed to the now three-person executive board of Ludwig Loewe & Co. AG and in 1906 to the executive board of Gesfürel. After Isidor Loewe's death, he was a member of the board of directors of both companies and, in 1923, director general on the Gesfürel board. He also held numerous supervisory board mandates. In 1929 the two companies merged to form the company for electrical companies - Ludwig Loewe & Co AG .

In 1930 olive presented his “general plan” for a European high voltage network. By using different providers in terms of time and region, losses in energy storage could be reduced. He envisaged a 10,000-kilometer-long power grid that was to connect, among other things, hydropower in Scandinavia, the areas of brown and hard coal deposits in northern France and western Germany.

In 1934 he retired due to old age and moved to the company's supervisory board. Isidor Loewe's son, Erich Loewe, took over the management. When Erich, like his brother Egon, had to resign in 1937 as a result of the " Aryanization ", Oliven resigned his supervisory mandate in protest. While the Loewe family emigrated to the USA, the Olives family moved to Switzerland. In 1941 her property was confiscated in the German Reich.

Oskar Oliven died in January 1939 at the age of 68.

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personal data
SURNAME Olives, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer and industry manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1939
Place of death Zurich