Philipp Pforr
Philipp August Pforr (born August 22, 1865 in Hersfeld , † December 18, 1949 in Berlin ) was a German industrialist .
Life
Philipp Pforr, son of master carpenter , church elders and councilors Reinhard Pforr (1835-1914) and his wife Maria Elisabeth born Göbel, turned to the High School to the study of mathematics , the natural sciences and of civil engineering at the University of Marburg and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In Marburg he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia in 1884 .
After Philipp Pforr had completed his practical master builder training at the Berlin Stadt- und Ringbahn after completing his studies in 1894 , he took up a position as an engineer at the Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (UEG) . The person who was appointed head of the rail projects department there in 1899 was primarily concerned with the introduction of electrical operation on mainline railways . After successful experiments with AC motors , he was able to win over the Prussian State Railways for his plans, which, with the help of the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) , which had since taken over the Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft, had been increasingly trying to electrify its lines since 1907. Philipp Pforr, who was elected a full board member of the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft in 1911, also played a leading role in the execution of his project. Philipp Pforr, appointed building officer in 1912, retired in 1932.
Philipp Pforr, who married Wilhelmine Sophie Karoline Hosbach (1868–1920), born in Hersfeld in 1897 and with whom he had two children, died in 1949 at the age of 84 in Berlin.
literature
- Pforr, Philipp. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1408.
- Deutsche Maschinentechnische Gesellschaft, Association of Government Builders of Mechanical Engineering "Motor.": Glasers Annalen , volumes 73-74, Georg Siemens Verlag, Berlin, 1949, page 39.
- Walther Rathenau , Hans Dieter Hellige, Ernst Schulin : Walther Rathenau-Gesamtausgabe, Volume 6, G. Müller, Munich, 1983, ISBN 3-7953-0505-5 , page 1044.
- Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 7, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , page 652.
- Karl Ernst Maedel: Lok-Magazin, issues 214-219, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, 1999, page 72.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 158 , 187
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pforr, Philipp |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pforr, Philipp August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hersfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1949 |
| Place of death | Berlin |