Otto Mecheels

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Otto Mecheels (* 1894 in Bönnigheim ; † June 3, 1979 ibid) was a German professor of organic chemistry and dyeing technology.

Life

Otto Mecheels was born in Bönnigheim in 1894 as the son of Johannes and Johanna Mecheels. After studying chemistry at the TH Stuttgart and completing his doctorate with William Küster , he completed practical years at the Amann & Sons sewing silk factory in Bönnigheim. In 1929 he accepted a professorship for organic chemistry and dyeing technology at the State Technical Center for the Textile Industry in Reutlingen . From 1935 to 1945 he was director of the Textile Engineering School Mönchengladbach-Rheydt, today the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, and the Research Institute for the Textile Industry, where he succeeded in combining fish protein and viscose wool into a new fiber, fish cellulose . Mecheels also served as President of the International Association of Color Chemists .

His first research in clothing physiology led to a sea rescue suit for downed airplane pilots. In 1944 the school and the research institute were destroyed in a bomb attack. Until then, the Rheydt Higher Textile School was one of the most renowned training centers in Germany. Otto Mecheels then returned to his home town of Bönnigheim.

In 1946 he founded the Hohenstein Research Institute in the Hohenstein district of Bönnigheim and expanded it into a leading testing institute by 1962. In 1962 his son Jürgen Mecheels took over the management of the institute.

Otto Mecheels died on June 3, 1979 after a short illness at Hohenstein Castle.

Publications

  • Otto Mecheels (Ed.): Reutlinger Jahrbuch der Textilveredlung: 1934/35 . Hutzler, 1934
  • Otto Mecheels: Factory equipment and operational monitoring in textile finishing . J. Springer, 1937
  • Horst Reumuth, Otto Mecheels: Contributions to the histology and pathology of the wool fiber . Volume 3 of communications from the German Research Institute for the Textile Industry M. Gladbach-Rheydt, 1938
  • Otto Mecheels: Internship in textile finishing . J. Springer, 1940
  • Otto Mecheels, Dieter Hessland: Repertory of the clothing industry . Eder, 1958
  • Otto Mecheels: Hygienic and physiological requirements for uniform cloth , Erpel / Rhein, 1958

literature

  • "Textile Worlds - The Success Story of the Hohenstein Institute", Josef Kurz and Stefan Mecheels, ISBN 978-3-9812485-0-0 .
  • "Craft web schools and practical universities", Stefan Mecheels, Herbert Vogler and Josef Kurz, Bönnigheim, 2013, ISBN 978-3-943868-01-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HK Rouette: textile barons . 1996, ISBN 3-87466-264-0 , pp. 448-449 .
  2. ↑ Madleine Gentlemen: Outwardly. . . an Innocuous Conference Authority: National Socialism and the Logistics of International Information Management in: German History , 20, No. 1 (2002): p. 80.
  3. ^ Anne-Marie Grundmeier: Excursion to the Hohenstein Institutes in: ph fr - Journal of the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg , 2, 2008, p. 49f.
personal data
SURNAME Mecheels, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bönnigheim
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 1979
Place of death Bönnigheim