Oskar Protz
Oskar Jean Leopold Walter Protz (born June 27, 1905 in Deutsch Eylau ; † February 11, 1990 in Kiel ) was a German engineer and manager of the German shipbuilding industry .
Life
Born as the son of a major , Oskar Protz attended the city high school in Stettin , where he obtained the general university entrance qualification in 1924 . After a six-month industrial internship in Szczecin, he began studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Danzig in the winter semester of 1924/1925 and in 1925 became a member of the Corps Borussia Danzig. At the end of 1928 he completed his studies as a Dipl.-Ing. from.
In early 1929 he joined Berlin in the Siemens-Schuckert and was there in Dynamowerk to 1934 as a design engineer and then as a production engineer operates. At the same time, he passed the diploma exam in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg in mid-1931 . In May 1938 he moved to Werner & Pfleiderer in Stuttgart as deputy operations manager . In February 1944 he took a position as deputy manager at Kieler Howaldtswerke AG, Kiel . In 1946 he received power of attorney . In 1954 he was appointed to the company's board of directors. After his retirement in April 1968, he worked in an advisory capacity for various companies and bodies.
Protz made numerous patented inventions. He and Hermann Stieghorst achieved nationwide fame in 1954 through successful negotiations with the Soviet Ministry of Economic Affairs for the delivery of a total of 24 fish factory ships with fully automatic manufacturing equipment for a total purchase price of 200 million Deutschmarks. Here they were successful against six British rival companies.
Honorary positions
Oskar Protz volunteered as an engineer, corps student and Rotarian. From mid-1966 to mid-1969, he was a member of the board of the Association of German Engineers and from May 1964 to May 1968 he was second chairman of the Weinheim Association of Old Corps Students . In 1969 he was the founding commissioner of the Rotary Club of Kiel-Eider in Rotary International and held the office of governor in what was then the 149th district from 1971 to 1972.
Honors
- Honorary Boy of the Corps Baltica-Borussia Danzig zu Bielefeld (1983)
literature
- Hans Nehlep (Ed.): Album Academicum des Corps Baltica-Borussia Danzig 1860-1970. Berlin 1973, revised and supplemented by Degenhardt Müller, Hans-Wolfgang Nehlep and Jürgen Protz, Essen 2000.
Web links
- Russian orders - Cocom wants to ban . In: DER SPIEGEL 28/1954, July 7, 1954.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Protz, Oskar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Protz, Oskar Jean Leopold Walter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and manager of the German shipbuilding industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | German Eylau , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1990 |
| Place of death | Kiel |