Richard Hirsch

Richard Eduard Hirsch (born April 10, 1882 in Windischeschenbach ; † July 18, 1959 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) was a German politician , glassmaker and member of the glassmaker family of the same name .

Life

Born as the son of the glass manufacturer August Theodor Hirsch (1857–1937) and Amanda Franziska Minna Hirsch (1857–1922), Hirsch studied mechanical engineering at the technical college in Mittweida from 1900 to 1903 and then until 1905 metallurgy with a focus on glass technology at the TH Dresden . During his studies in 1903 he became a member of the Cimbria Dresden fraternity . He completed his studies as a Dipl.-Ing. and subsequently worked in various glassworks around the world, including setting up a window glass factory in Mexico on behalf of a Spanish company in 1907 . In 1911 he returned to Germany and worked for the Jena glass works Schott and comrades . There he became chief engineer and technical manager of the company.

At the First World War he took from 1914 to 1916 as a reserve officer of the Saxon army in part. As a first lieutenant in the Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 23, Hirsch was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Somme and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of St. Henry for his work on August 28, 1916 .

In 1919 he was appointed to the management by Otto Schott . In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 5,204,828). In 1938 he became a civil servant honorary councilor of the city of Jena. After the end of the Second World War , he was kidnapped by the Americans in the “We take the brain” campaign with other executives from the Jena plant and was technically involved in the reconstruction of the company in Zwiesel and Mainz . He was managing director of the new main plant in Mainz, which was built in 1952 under his technical direction. In particular, he further developed the melting technology of optical glasses. In the same year Hirsch was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit in recognition of his services to the reconstruction of the Schott works .

Hirsch had been an honorary member of the Dresden-Freiberg fraternity of Cheruscia zu Aachen since 1950.

literature

Richard Hirsch in the German biography
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 471-472.

Web links

The Hirsch family of glassmakers.

Individual evidence

↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736–1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 324.

personal data
SURNAME	Hirsch, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hirsch, Richard Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German glassmaker and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Windischeschenbach
DATE OF DEATH	July 18, 1959
Place of death	Heidenheim an der Brenz

[1] The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736–1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 324.