Otto Wiethaus

Otto Wiethaus (born July 29, 1842 in Limburg ad Lenne ; † April 27, 1918 in Bonn ) was a German engineer, industrialist and politician.

education

Otto Wiethaus

Otto Wiethaus, son of the district judge Carl Wiethaus , studied mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe from 1859 to 1862 . There he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity in the winter semester of 1860/61 . For his further training he worked for a year free of charge in the machine factory of Fétu-Defize in Liège . Vollrath then worked as an operations assistant at John Cockerill in Seraing near Liège. In 1867 he moved to Phoenix in Ruhrort . First he was assistant to the operations manager, then production manager of the puddling and rolling mill. After five years he took over the technical management of theAachener Hütten-Aktien-Verein zu Rothe Erde near Aachen .

Westphalian wire industry

In 1874 Wiethaus became the technical director of the Westphalian wire industry in Hamm . He was accepted as a deputy member of the board. In 1894 he became a full board member and from 1894 to 1910 he was the sole director and general director of the company. As the technical director of the Westphalian wire industry, Wiethaus managed to reorganize the company. At that time the company was making losses and the annual output was around 35,000 t. After Wiethaus left the company, the company was in the black and annual production was greater than 226,000 t. The number of workers rose from 800 to over 2,200. After 1910 Otto Wiethaus joined the supervisory board and remained there until his death.

Business associations

Wiethaus was a member of the executive committee of the Deutsche Drahtwalzwerke Aktiengesellschaft . He campaigned for the creation of refinement associations for the wire trade, in which he was one of the leading men for many years. Since the founding of the Association of German Wire Pin Manufacturers in 1898, Wiethaus was deputy and from 1902 first chairman until the association was dissolved in 1906. He was also deputy and later first chairman of the wire rope association that existed from 1900 to 1905 . Wiethaus headed the domestic price convention for wire, wire goods and wire nails during the entire period of validity from 1909 to 1911 .

Volunteering and Politics

Otto Wiethaus worked for a long time on the board of the Association of German Iron and Steel Industries and the Association for Making the Lippe Navigable . He belonged to the Bezirkseisenbahnrat to Hannover and since 1910 the Board of Directors of Berliner Handelsgesellschaft on. Wiethaus was a city ​​councilor and district committee member in Hamm for many years . There he was involved in the establishment and expansion of the pool and thermal baths. And he worked for a long time as chairman of the district election committee of the National Liberal Party for the constituency of Hamm-Soest.

Web links

• Otto Wiethaus in the wiki of the city of Hamm

swell

• Stahl und Eisen, Volume 38, No. 21, 1918.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 375-376.