Oskar von Petri

Oskar Wilhelm Petri , since 1910 Ritter von Petri (born February 24, 1860 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), † May 26, 1944 in Nuremberg ) was a German civil engineer and industrial manager .

Life

The son of a high school teacher studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and the Technical University of Charlottenburg . In Karlsruhe he joined the Teutonia fraternity in 1878 . He later worked as a government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration) in Cologne , Dortmund and Magdeburg and then went to the German embassy in Washington as a technical attaché . Has worked for the Hanover Railway Directorate since 1891. In 1894 he took over the management of the Schuckert subsidiary Continentale Gesellschaft für electrical companies in Nuremberg , which u. a. built the Wuppertal suspension railway and quickly gained international renown under his leadership. In 1902 he became a member of the management board of Siemens-Schuckert-Werke , was temporarily general director and in 1919 moved to the company's supervisory board as deputy chairman . In 1920 he became a member, in 1927 chairman of the supervisory board of Siemens & Halske AG and was chairman of the supervisory board of MAN as well as a member of the board of directors of the Bavarian Industrial Association.

Petri was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown by Prince Regent Luitpold in 1910 . With the award the elevation to the personal nobility was connected and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Petri after the entry in the nobility register .

Together with his wife Elisabeth, Petri donated the Nuremberg Art Gallery at the Marientor , which was inaugurated in 1913 under the name "Art Exhibition Hall ". He was also one of the 24 founders of the Künstlerhaus Nürnberg and was a member of the administrative board of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in 1916/44 . From 1916 to 1940 he was a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE)
• Georg Kirschner: Directory of members of the Karlsruhe Burschenschaft Teutonia. 1966.
• Gerhard Neumeier:  Oscar von Petri. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 264 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 369.
2. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria for the year 1911. Munich 1911 p. 27.