Eugen Piwowarsky
Eugen Piwowarsky (born November 10, 1891 in Leschnitz , Upper Silesia , † November 17, 1953 in Aachen ) was a German materials scientist and best known as a foundry specialist.
Life
Piwowarsky was born the youngest of ten children. The father, farmer and mill owner, was also the treasurer of the town of Leschnitz . Even if the family had a Polish-sounding name, he grew up in a German-influenced environment. Piwowarsky went to a Catholic boarding school in 1905 after finishing elementary school. In 1911 he passed the Abitur and enrolled at the Technical University of Wroclaw for iron and steel engineering . At the end of June 1915, after seven semesters, he passed the main diploma. Due to a heart defect, Piwowarsky was retired and thus escaped the battlefields of the First World War . So he stayed until January 1916 as an assistant at the Technical University at the chair for constructive metallurgy . Since there was a shortage of experts in industry due to the war, Piwowarsky was first assigned to the Queen-Marien-Hütte steelworks in Cainsdorf near Zwickau , and from October 1916 as a production engineer to the Bismarckhütte in Schwientochlowitz . On February 12, 1917 Piwowarsky married Clara Benke.
After a lung disease in the winter of 1917, which resulted in several months of treatment, Piwowarsky was unable to return to production and returned to Breslau as an assistant . He became head of the chemical laboratory in Wroclaw. On December 6, 1918, he passed the doctoral examination . Since his doctoral supervisor, Professor Dr. P. Oberhoffer, who moved to Aachen in 1920 , was Piwowarsky 's successor without having completed his habilitation. He made up for this in 1922 and in September of the same year he followed to Aachen, where he became the youngest professor at RWTH Aachen on July 4, 1923 . After Oberhoffer's death in July 1927, he succeeded him as professor of iron and steel engineering. In 1929 the chair and institute for general metallurgy and the entire foundry of ferrous and non-ferrous metals were created for Piwowarsky . From 1932 the foundry studies course was introduced .
Despite being a member of the NSDAP , Piwowarsky was initially classified as politically harmless in 1945 and began teaching in Aachen again in October. Thanks to a discharge file drawn up by employees of the Foundry Institute, a later reassessment, according to which Piwowarsky had been the local administrator of the NSLB until 1935, had no consequences. On March 1, 1947, he was finally confirmed in office.
On March 13, 1952, he achieved his great goal with the inauguration of the institute building. It awards the Piwowarsky Prize annually for outstanding scientific work in the foundry industry.
As a student in Breslau, Piwowarsky was an active member of the Zollern Catholic Student Union, in Aachen he also became an honorary philistine of the Carolingia and Wiking Catholic Union, all in the KV .
In April 1952 he founded AGIFA , the Aachen foundry family, and donated his house, which still serves as a clubhouse and student residence. His wife bequeathed her property to AGIFA in 1982. Eugen Piwowarsky found his final resting place in the Aachen forest cemetery .
literature
- Walter Kaiser: Piwowarsky, Eugen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 494 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Eugen Piwowarsky in the catalog of the German National Library
- AGIFA website
- http://www.gi.rwth-aachen.de/downloads/piwowarsky.pdf (PDF file; 3.09 MB)
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SURNAME | Piwowarsky, Eugene |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German materials scientist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1891 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leschnitz , Upper Silesia |
DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 1953 |
Place of death | Aachen |