Otto Friedrich Weinlig

Otto Friedrich Weinlig (born April 24, 1867 in Harburg , † September 14, 1932 in Bonn ) was a German industrialist .

"Neues Schloss" Dillingen, built for Weinlig at the beginning of the 20th century

Dillingen / Saar, Former director's villa "Neues Schloss" of Dillinger Hütte, rear

Life

Otto Weinlig was born as the eldest son of the mineral water manufacturer Eduard Weinlig and his wife Bertha Agnes Friedericke Küth. After attending the secondary school in Harburg, he studied at the technical universities in Hanover and Charlottenburg and, from 1887, at the mining academies in Leoben and Berlin . In Hanover he was a member of the Corps Alemannia . In 1905 he also received the ribbon of the Corps Teutonia Braunschweig . In 1889 he started working as an engineer at the public limited company for mining and smelting works Phönix in Duisburg-Ruhrort, then was the first steelworks assistant at the Hörder mining and smelting association and head of the Westphalian steel works in Bochum. From 1893 he worked as a chief engineer for Dillinger Hüttenwerke . In 1899 he became technical director and member of the board and initiated the extensive expansion of the factory facilities, the construction of new coke and blast furnace systems, the construction of an armored plate plant and steam-hydraulic forging presses.

At the beginning of 1907 Weinlig switched to the supervisory board and devoted himself to economic and legal studies in Bonn. In 1913 he was commissioned by the Reichsmarineamt and the Shantung Mining Company to assess the iron ore and coal deposits in the Chinese province of Shantung . The construction of a steelworks designed by him could no longer be realized due to the outbreak of the First World War. On August 1, 1914, he again took over the technical management of the Dillinger Hütte and converted the Dillinger plant to military service. After the end of the war, he was imprisoned and expelled from the Saar region by the French occupying forces in May 1919 for his national stance. Until 1923 he was again active in German industry.

Awards

Dr.-Ing. e. H. of the Technical University in Wroclaw
Honorary citizen and honorary senator of the Technical University of Hanover
Honorary citizen of the University of Bonn
Honorary citizen of Dillingen / Saar
Red Eagle Order 4th Class
Iron cross on a white ribbon
Cross of Merit for War Aid (Prussia)
Red Cross Medal (Prussia) 3rd class
Friedrich-August-Kreuz 2nd class on the red-blue ribbon
War Merit Cross (Saxony)
King Ludwig Cross
Iron crescent

literature

Otto Friedrich Weinlig † . In: Corpsstudentische Monatsblätter, January 1933, p. 34f.

Individual evidence

↑ Bernd-A. Kahe, Alfred Priemeier, Ernst Battmer, Nils Höpken: Corps lists of the Braunschweig Seniors' Convent in the WSC, Teutonia, No. 90. Braunschweig, 1990
↑ AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke (ed.): 325 Years of Dillinger Hütte 1685–2010, volume Menschen, Dillingen 2010, p. 209.
^ Memorandum for the 50th anniversary of the kk Berg-Akademie in Leoben 1840-1890, p. 228, no. 1590

personal data
SURNAME	Weinlig, Otto Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Harburg
DATE OF DEATH	September 14, 1932
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Bernd-A. Kahe, Alfred Priemeier, Ernst Battmer, Nils Höpken: Corps lists of the Braunschweig Seniors' Convent in the WSC, Teutonia, No. 90. Braunschweig, 1990

[2] AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke (ed.): 325 Years of Dillinger Hütte 1685–2010, volume Menschen, Dillingen 2010, p. 209.

[3] Memorandum for the 50th anniversary of the kk Berg-Akademie in Leoben 1840-1890, p. 228, no. 1590