Paul Esselmann

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Paul Esselmann (full name Karl Heinrich Paul Esselmann ) (born October 15, 1897 in Spradow , † July 16, 1981 in Bad Neuenahr ) was a German chemist and manager.

Life

After Paul Esselmann graduated from the Leibniz School in Hanover in 1916 , he took part in the First World War as a war volunteer . He was badly wounded and reached the rank of Vice Sergeant in the Reserve. In 1918 he began studying chemistry at the Technical University of Hanover . In the same year he became a member of the Cheruscia Hanover fraternity , which was merged into the Teutonia fraternity after the Second World War . On December 1st, 1920 he graduated as Dipl.-Ing. from.

On January 13, 1921, Esselmann joined the Premnitz factory of Cologne-Rottweil AG as a chemist and initially worked on adrenaline descendants . On May 24, 1922, he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD . As deputy manager of the carbon disulfide plant, he developed a new process for the production of carbon disulfide and worked on cellulose - regenerated fibers and rayon, since November 1927 as head of the scientific laboratory. After the integration of the Cologne-Rottweil AG in IG Farben, he was in March 1929 after Wolfen displaced, where he initially viscose - rayon farms reorganized. In addition, he was responsible for similar manufacturing process changes as in Wolfen in Premnitz, Rottweil , Bobingen , Dormagen , and Berlin-Lichtenberg . In 1930 he became an authorized representative and in 1932 an authorized signatory . From 1934 to 1936 he was responsible for the construction and management of the cellulose and pulp plants in Wolfen. The cellulose plant with 80 tonnes per day and the beech wood-based pulp plant with 100 tonnes per day were the largest plants in the world at that time. He played a key role in the large- scale manufacture of the world's first fully synthetic fiber based on post-chlorinated polyvinyl chloride , the so-called PE-CE fiber. In addition, he was involved in the test facility for the production of Perlon silk and Perlon fibers. In April 1937 he was appointed director.

In the summer of 1945 Esselmann was appointed director of the Wolfen film factory . He was the only pre-war director who stayed in Wolfen after the war. Under his leadership, Wolfen products developed into coveted export items of the young GDR in the early post-war period , both in the Eastern Bloc and in Western countries. Within a few years he reached the pre-war production level, where he succeeded in finding the balance between the partially unfulfillable orders of the Soviet General Directorate and the demands of the union and the SED factory party organization. In February 1950 he was nominated by the factory for the national prize . After refusing to accept the national prize, he and his family left for the West in March 1951 and went to São Paulo , where he worked in Santo Amaro for Indústrias Reunidas Fábricas Matarazzo (IRFM), the concern of the Conde Francisco Matarazzo Júnior, built an artificial silk factory.

On December 16, 1953, when Dynamit Nobel AG was released from Allied control, Esselmann was appointed to its board of directors and confirmed in 1958. Together with Fritz Gajewski , he inaugurated the new administration building designed by Paul Schaeffer-Heyrothsberge in Troisdorf in 1956 on Kaiserstraße / Kölner Straße, the first high-rise in the Siegkreis . When he reached the age limit, he retired in 1962. As a board member of Dynamit Nobel AG, he was a member of the supervisory board of Chemische Werke Witten GmbH in Witten and a member of the advisory board of Dynamit Nobel Saarwellingen GmbH in Saarwellingen and Dynarohr-Werk GmbH in Mülheim an der Ruhr .

family

Paul Esselmann was the son of Johann Peter Esselmann and Charlotte Emilie Caroline Esselmann geb. Brüggemann. On August 30, 1922, he married Dorothea Margareta Zastrow (1896-1992). The marriage resulted in three children, Jürgen Max Johann (1923-2006), Gisela Maria Karoline (1927-1935) and Helga Dorothea (1936-2019).

Fonts

  • About chloromethyl ketones of some naphthalene derivatives and phenanthrene , 1922 (dissertation at the Technical University of Hanover)
  • Process for the continuous purification of crude carbon disulphide , 1925, Patent US 1728686 A (together with Eberhard Legeler)
  • The sulfuric acid-sodium sulfate-water system . In: Journal for inorganic and general chemistry Volume 157, 1926, A. 290-298
  • Reduction of the swelling capacity of hydrated cellulose and the resulting product , 1928, Patent US 1737760 A (together with Claus Heuck)
  • Manufacture of artificial silk , 1934, Patent US 2059632 A (together with Karl Kösslinger)
  • Textile material , 1937, patent US 2246511 A (together with Joseph Düsing and Karl Kösslinger)
  • Process of treating textile materials , 1937, Patent US 2261240 A (together with Joseph Düsing and Karl Kösslinger)
  • Process of producing artificial staple fibers resembling wool , 1937, Patent US 2254777 A (together with Fritz Davidshofer)
  • Process of producing insoluble condensation products containing sulfur and nitrogen , 1937, Patent US 2208095 A (together with Joseph Düsing and Karl Kösslinger)
  • Synthetic resinous composition , 1938, Patent US 2220441 A (together with Joseph Düsing)
  • Production of resins from alkyleneimine with arylisocyanates , 1938, Patent US 2257162 A (together with Joseph Düsing)
  • Process for improving the dyeing properties of artificial fibers, foils, films, ribbons, and the like, and products obtained therefrom , 1938, Patent US 2231890 A (together with Joseph Düsing)
  • Crimping device , 1939, patent US 2156723 A (together with Karl Kösslinger and Paul Saffert)
  • Synthetic resin stable against dilute acids and alkalies , 1939, Patent US 2257163 A (together with Joseph Düsing)
  • Method for producing threads, tapes, films, hoses and similar structures , 1954, patent DE 1111339 B (together with Hermann Fischer, Michael Wienand, Adolf Ristau)

literature

  • Esselmann, Paul in Who is who? The German Who's Who , 14th edition, Volume 1, 1962, p. 317.
  • Esselmann, Paul in Who's Who in Germany - The German Who's Who. 4th edition. Who's Who Book & Publishing, Ottobrunn 1972, p. 344.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the FAZ
  2. ↑ a b c d e Personnel file in the archive of the Wolfen Industry and Film Museum
  3. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 109.
  4. ^ History of the Hanover fraternity of Teutonia
  5. ↑ Oscar Kausch: The carbon disulfide: Its properties, production and use , 1929, pp. 118, 119, 136, 137 ( digitized version )
  6. ^ John E. Lesch (editor): The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century , pp. 383-384
  7. ^ A b Manfred Gill: Filmfabrik / Part 10: The hardest chapter for the work began after the Second World War . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , April 25, 1992, p. 30
  8. ↑ Agfa films, again a coveted export article , in: Neues Deutschland , November 22, 1949
  9. ↑ a b Plastic Museum Troisdorf, Part III: 1945 to 1964
personal data
SURNAME Esselmann, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esselmann, Karl Heinrich Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Spradow
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1981
Place of death Bad Neuenahr