Otto Heuer (chemist)

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Otto Karl Hermann Heuer (born July 8, 1877 in Hecklingen ; † 1960 ) was a German chemist and industrialist in the cement industry .

Life

After attending high school, he practically worked in brickworks and cement factories. Then he started studying chemistry and mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig . During his studies he became a member of the Thuringia Braunschweig fraternity in 1898/99 .

From 1902 to 1905 he worked as a chemist and works manager at the Württemberg Portland cement works in Lauffen am Neckar . He then became director of the Dornburg-Steudnitzer Kalkwerke Dr. M. Frenztel from 1906 to 1909.

In 1910 he became director and general manager of Portland-Cement- und Kalkwerke AG Schimischow in Upper Silesia , which he held until 1926. He accompanied the merger of the plants in Schimischow with the cement plants in Neukirch an der Katzbach, Giesel and Frauendorf in Silesia .

In business, he was active in the purchase of shares in the cement works Groß-Strehlitz and Groschowitz von Grundmann in the city of Opole , with which he became the founder of the Silesian cement company.

When he acquired Schütte AG for the clay industry in Minden , he switched to the heavy ceramics sector. At the end of the twenties, Schütte AG produced 50 million clinker bricks and roof tiles per year. The AG included plants in Heisterholz ( Petershagen ), Holtrup and in Dehme ( Bad Oeynhausen ) at Mindener Str. 10.

At the end of 1929 he became CEO of the Portland-Cementwerke Heidelberg-Mannheim. From March 1934 he was chairman of the German Cement Association in Heidelberg .

He held other offices as an honorary senator of the TH Braunschweig, as a member of the supervisory board of Excelsior Lebensversicherungs AG in Berlin and the Schlesische Portland-Cement-Industrie AG .

This year belonged to the NSDAP since May 1, 1933 . He belonged to the " Friends of the Reichsführer SS ".

literature

  • Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatic Publishing House , Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 .
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? 10th edition. Degener, Berlin 1935.
  • Gustav Füllner: Technician as business leader. Georg Knorr (1859–1911) - Otto Heuer (1877–1960). In: For the 150th anniversary of the German fraternity. Life and achievement. Continuation of the fraternity's curriculum vitae, Heidelberg 1921 (= representations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Volume 6). Winter, Heidelberg 1965, pp. 153-177.
  • General director Otto Heuer 75 years old. In: The brick industry. 1952, issue 14, p. 549.
  • Maurer trial, materials from the trial against SS-Standartenführer Gerhard Maurer . In: SS in action: A documentary about the crimes of the SS. Deutscher Militärverlag , (East) Berlin 1964, p. 50.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 200.
  2. ↑ Reinhard Vogelsang: The Himmler Circle of Friends. Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1972, p. 163.
personal data
SURNAME This year, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES This year, Otto Karl Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Hecklingen
DATE OF DEATH 1960