Otto Reuleaux

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Otto Hermann Karl Henning Reuleaux (born January 17, 1896 in Küstrin , † March 14, 1979 in Basel ) was a German engineer and industrial manager .

Life

Otto Reuleaux was a member of the Reuleaux family , who had become known through numerous technicians and engineers and came from the area around Aachen . Born in Küstrin in 1896, he grew up in the late founding years of the German Empire and was a grandson of the mechanical engineer and founder of kinematics and gear theory , but also the rector of the Technical University of Berlin , Franz Reuleaux .

After attending the Realgymnasium , specifically the Grunewald-Gymnasium in Berlin , Otto Reuleaux studied chemistry and metallurgy at the Technical University there in Charlottenburg , as well as law, economics and history at the University of Berlin and in Bonn at the university there . In 1922 he received his diploma as a graduate engineer and received his doctorate in the following year as a Dr.-Ing. on the subject of reactions and equilibria in the Cu-Fe-S system with a special focus on copper stone . In 1923 Reuleaux was still working for the metal company in Frankfurt am Main .

On behalf of Reuleaux as one of the first buildings erected by the architect Ernst Zinsser in Hanover: Building of the United Aluminum Works from 1935 on Göttinger Chaussee in Linden-Süd ; listed

Also at the time of the Weimar Republic , Otto Reuleaux took over the management of the United Leichtmetallwerke GmbH Bonn in Bonn in 1929 . Based on his work in Bonn "under his responsible leadership" at the time of National Socialism , he built a semi-finished product factory for the processing of aluminum and aluminum sheets in Hanover in 1935 on the premises of the disused Hannoversche Waggonfabrik (HAWA) in Linden . For the construction of the factory building on Göttinger Chaussee in Linden-Süd , Reuleaux was able to win over the architect Ernst Zinsser , who was still active in Berlin at the time and who soon afterwards permanently relocated his studio to Hanover. Because, also through Zinsser, Reuleaux had another alumnium processing plant built in Laatzen not far from Hanover , which quickly developed into one of the largest and most efficient light metal processing companies in Europe . Finally, Reuleaux, who made "special merits in the field of aluminum casting and plating processes" with the Laatzen plant, was appointed " Wehrwirtschaftsführer " and then used both the Linden and Laatzen factories to produce armaments in action for World War II .

After the war, on October 12, 1946, the Russian-born German metallurgist of Jewish descent Georg Sachs , an advocate for the industrialist Herbert Quandt , wrote in a letter to Friedrich Dörge :

“I very much regret that Reuleaux is back on top. If I can harm him in any way, I would like to do it. "

After the war, the Linden aluminum plant was only partially dismantled , while the Laatzen aluminum plant was completely dismantled under the British occupation forces in 1947 . Only a few halls remained in Laatzen, which - also in 1947 - were used for the first export fair . Nevertheless, the VLW soon developed again into an internationally active company.

In the meantime, however, Otto Reuleaux was - also in 1947 - elected chairman of the board of Kali Chemie AG in Hanover with the approval of the British military authorities . In the following years he was also appointed to the supervisory boards of other large industrial companies such as Solvay and Gerling International , as well as to the management board of Metallgesellschaft.

In 1953 Reuleaux was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Hanover. In the same year he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1957 Reuleaux took over the duties of consul of Italy .

On the initiative of Reuleaux, who was also a member of the Science Council founded on September 5, 1957 , and with the participation of, for example, Rudolf Schoen , the Society of Friends of the Medical Academy was founded on January 8, 1964 in the Hotel Luisenhof in Hanover , which later became the Society the Friends of the Hannover Medical School (MHH).

On October 31, 1964 Otto Reuleaux was awarded the Karmarsch Memorial Medal by the Hanover University Community. The award text for the medal paid tribute to Reuleaux,

"Who succeeded in making significant progress in the field of metallurgy of light metals , and who rarely knew how to combine technology and science and, together with scientific thinking, to lead them to success."

Otto Reuleaux died on January 14, 1979 in Basel, Switzerland .

Fonts

  • Reactions and equilibria in the Cu-Fe-S system with special consideration of copper stone, typescript, 98 pages with tables and figures, dissertation 1923 at the Technical University of Berlin, [oO, o. D .; Berlin, 1923]

literature

  • Helmut Plath , Herbert Mundhenke , Ewald Brix : United light metal works limited liability company , in this: Heimatchronik der Stadt Hannover (= Heimatchroniken der Stadt und Kreis der Bundesgebiet , Vol. 17), Köln: Archiv für Deutsche Heimatpflege GmbH, 1956 , P. 412ff.
  • CV in the documents of the Hanover University Community.
  • Who is who? Das deutsche Who's Who , Vol. 15 (1967), p. 1571.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia , 2nd edition, Vol. 8, Munich 2007, p. 339 (there with different life dates!)
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : United Aluminum Works (VAW). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 640.
  • Rainer Ertel (editing), Antje Doll, Gunther Mühge (editing): The bearers of the Karmarsch commemorative coin. 1925 to 2011. A foray through German scientific and economic history , u. a. with the imprint of a group photo of the metal company from the late 1930s with Otto Reuleaux and Alfred Petersen , ed. from the Freundeskreis der Leibniz-Universität Hannover eV, Hannover: Verlag der Hahnschen Buchhandlung, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7752-6163-0 , pp. 68–69.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i o. V. Reuleaux, Otto. In: Munzinger Online / Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/1956 from May 14, 1956
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g o. V .: Reuleaux, Otto in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek in processing on March 1, 2012, last accessed on June 8, 2017
  3. ↑ Wolfhard Weber :  Reuleaux, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 453 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Rainer Ertel (edit.), Antje Doll, Gunther Mühge (edit.): The bearers of the Karmarsch memorial coin. 1925 to 2011. A foray through German scientific and economic history , ed. from the Freundeskreis der Leibniz-Universität Hannover eV, Hannover: Verlag der Hahnschen Buchhandlung, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7752-6163-0 , pp. 68–69.
  5. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
  6. ↑ Ralf Haas: Lecture about Ernst Zinsser and the administration building of Continental AG at Königsworther Platz 1 in Hanover / October 28, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document), p. 2@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wiwi.uni-hannover.de  
  7. ↑ Compare Joachim Scholtyseck : The Rise of the Quandts. A German entrepreneurial dynasty, Munich: Beck, 2011m ISBN 978-3-406-62251-9 ; P. 320, 934; Preview over google books
  8. ^ A b Brigitte Lohff (arrangement), Lisa Schulz, Andreas Siegwarth (co-workers): The founding history of the Society of Friends of the MHH , in this: The Society of Friends of the Hannover Medical School and their prices. 50 years of the Society of Friends of the Hannover Medical School. 1964 - 2014 , 1st edition, Hanover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86525-384-2 , p. 9f.
  9. ^ Compare the yearbook of the Technical University of Hanover , Giersen 1953, p. 42; Preview over google books
  10. ↑ Who is who? Das deutsche Who's Who , Vol. 15 (1967), p. 1571
personal data
SURNAME Reuleaux, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reuleaux, Otto Hermann Karl Henning (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and industrial manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Küstrin
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1979
Place of death Basel