Otto Schulze (Wasserbauer)

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Otto Schulze (born August 13, 1868 in Wriezen , † June 7, 1941 in Danzig ; full name: Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Schulze ) was a German hydraulic engineer and university professor . He taught as a professor of hydraulic engineering and port at the Technical University of Danzig , was temporarily rector of the university and senator of the Free City of Danzig .

Otto Schulze studied hydraulic engineering at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . During his studies he became a member of the Free Burschenschaft Ottonia Berlin in 1887 and a member of the Hevellia Berlin Burschenschaft in 1889 . After graduating, he worked in the Prussian hydraulic engineering administration. In 1896 he won the Schinkel competition of the Berlin Architects' Association . In the same year, after having passed the 2nd state examination, he was appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration). From 1902 he worked in the Prussian Ministry of Public Worksin Berlin. Since 1904 he was a hydraulic engineering inspector .

In 1904 he was appointed professor of hydraulic engineering and land at the Technical University of Danzig. From 1919 to 1923 he was rector of the university. In 1921 he was one of the founders of the Society of Friends of the Gdansk Technical University . As chairman of the VaB Danzig, he organized the DB Boys' Day in Danzig in 1924 and was given the honorary ribbon of the Danzig fraternity, Markomannia.

Otto Schulze belonged to the Danzig DNVP , which became the strongest parliamentary group in the election for the constituent assembly in Danzig in 1920 . From 1920 to 1924 he was an honorary senator in Senate Sahm I without a business area. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

In 1924 Technische Hochschule Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing. E. h.).

Otto Schulze was married to Katharina Schulze geb. Listen and had two children, a son and a daughter. He died in Danzig on June 7, 1941.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 362-363.
  • Ernst Ziehm : From my political work in Danzig 1914–1939. (Autobiography) pp. 57-62.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 455.
personal data
SURNAME Schulze, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulze, Friedrich Wilhelm Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydraulic engineer, university professor and Senator of the Free City of Danzig
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Spices
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1941
Place of death Danzig