Otto Polysius

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Victor Gottfried Otto Polysius (born September 27, 1863 in Dessau ; † May 3, 1933 ibid) was a German engineer and industrialist and an honorary citizen of Dessau.

family

He was the first son of the master locksmith and safe manufacturer Gottfried Polysius and Louise Amelang. On August 18, 1891, he married Christiane Kämmerer (born June 22, 1870), daughter of the soap manufacturer Carl Gustav Kämmerer in Dessau. They had three children: Gustav (* May 23, 1892 in Dessau), Otto (* January 22, 1895 in Dessau; † August 13, 1944 there), and Walter (* June 27, 1898 in Dessau; † February 14, 1931 in Berlin).

Life

Resting place in the historical cemetery in Dessau

Otto Polysius attended high school in Dessau and worked for a long time practically in his father's company, more likely to study mechanical engineering first in Munich, then in Berlin. He became a member of the Corps Franconia Munich and Guestphalia Berlin . After the death of his father in 1886, at the age of 22, he had to take over the management of the G. Polysius iron foundry and machine factory . In order to finish his studies first, he gave his mother general power of attorney to continue the company.

Until 1896 he managed the company alone. Then his younger brother Max Polysius also joined the management. Otto Polysius introduced the transmission construction and the production of hard crushing plants, especially for cement factories . At the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893 , complete systems for cement production for export were presented for the first time. At the turn of the century, the production of ball and tube mills began . From 1899 the company manufactured rotary kilns for cement production.

In 1906 Otto Polysius was appointed to the Ducal Anhalt Commercial Council. In 1907 he set up a patent office and founded a chemical laboratory in 1909. When it was converted into a stock corporation, Polysius joined the company's board of directors with his brother Max in 1928. Otto Polysius was active in a number of specialist bodies in his branch of industry. In 1928 he was made an honorary senator of the Technical University of Charlottenburg, and in 1929 he received the Dr.-Ing. honorary. Also in 1929 he became an honorary senator of the Technical University of Dresden.

literature

  • Polysius (1859-1959). From vice to large machine construction. Polysius, Neubeckum 1959.
  • Dessau - portrait of a city (= German city portraits. Vol. 2). Verlag Janos Stekovics, Dößel 2006, ISBN 3-89923-135-X , pp. 106, 301-303.
  • German biographical encyclopedia publisher Rudolf Vierhaus, KG Saur Verlag Munich 2007, page 21
  • 200 semesters of Munich francs . [Munich] 1936, p. 293f. (No. 478)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Munich Francs as at the end of the winter semester 1971/72 . P. 391 (no.867).
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 108/462
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 4/197
personal data
SURNAME Polysius, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Polysius, Victor Gottfried Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and industrialist, honorary citizen of Dessau
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1933
Place of death Dessau