Otto Emicke

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Otto Emicke (born April 27, 1891 in Ratibor , † October 19, 1970 in Freiberg ) was a German metallurgist.

Life

Otto Emicke's grave in Freiberg

Emicke studied chemistry and metallurgy at the Technical University in Breslau . In 1922 he did his doctorate at the TH Aachen and completed another doctorate in 1933 at the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben .

In 1928 he became an associate professor at the Bergakademie Freiberg . Two years later he set up an experimental rolling mill for rolling light metals into sheets and strips. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . In 1940 he joined the NSDAP . In 1942, Emicke became a full professor for deformation science and director of the Institute for Metal Forming.

Emicke left the Bergakademie in 1947. Until 1949 he worked as head of research in the Soviet iron and metallurgy office in Freiberg. In 1949 he became director of the Freiberg research institute for non-ferrous metals.

From 1955 Otto Emicke was a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Emicke retired in 1956 and died in Freiberg in 1970. He was buried in the Donatsfriedhof .

Honors

Memorial plaque in Freiberg, Cottastr. 4th
  • Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1956)
  • Honorary Senator of the Bergakademie Freiberg (1961)
  • Labor Banner (1961)
  • Honorary colloquium on his 75th birthday in Freiberg
  • Memorial plaque at the Institute for Metal Forming of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Publications (selection)

  • About experiments with a chrome steel . Aachen, TH, Diss., 1922
  • Using graphic processes and their calculation documents to determine and check similar form calibrations of special steels, mild steels and non-ferrous metals . Leoben, Montanist. Hochsch., Diss., 1932
  • The rolling of light metals into sheets and strips . Mauckisch Freiberg, 1944
  • Nomograms for the practice of hot and cold rolling of steel, stainless steels and non-ferrous metals . Akademie-Verlag Berlin, 1962

literature

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. mont. Otto Emicke Honorary Senator of the Bergakademie Freiberg . In: Bergakademie . Akademie-Verlag Berlin, 13/1961/6, pp. 426-427
  • Georg Juretzek : Prof. Dr. Dr. Otto Emicke 75 years old . In: Neue Hütte 11/1966, p. 318
  • Honorary colloquium on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dr. O. Emicke . Bergakademie Freiberg, 1966
  • Werner Lauterbach : Otto Emicke . In: Famous Freiberger. Selected biographies of well-known and deserving personalities . Part 4. Freiberg, 2003, pp. 97-98. ISSN  1611-5759

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Emicke, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German metallurgist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratibor
DATE OF DEATH 19th October 1970
Place of death Freiberg