Richard Peters (engineer)

The name of Peters on the column of the monument that was erected for the 75th anniversary of the VDI

Richard Peters (born July 1, 1835 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 13, 1869 in St. Johann ) was a German engineer and founding member and chairman of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

Life

After graduating from high school in Cologne in 1852, Richard Peters went to the Royal Industrial Institute , where he studied chemistry and metallurgy. In July 1855 he finished his training. In 1855 he was chairman of the academic hut association , and one year later he worked as an engineer at Henrichshütte in Hattingen . In the same year he founded the Association of German Engineers (VDI) with like-minded people in Alexisbad and became a member of the board. In the same year he chaired the constituent meeting of the Lower Rhine District Association of the VDI on August 24th in Düsseldorf. In the following year, Richard Peters initiated the founding of the Westphalian district association of the VDI. After a short stay near Trier , he became director of the Actien-Hüttenwerke Lenne-Ruhr in Altenhundem in autumn 1859 . Four years later he became director of the Steinhauser Hütte in Witten. Richard Peters was chairman of the VDI in 1866 and 1867. During his tenure as chairman of the VDI, he campaigned for a move away from state monitoring of steam boilers to monitoring by monitoring associations. In June 1866 he became director of the coal preparation and coke oven plant of Dupont & Dreyfus near St. Johann . He held this position until his death. He was a member of the editorial team of the journal of the Association of German Engineers in 1868; with the exception of 1865, he had been a permanent member of the board of the technical association for iron and steelwork since 1862.

Richard Peters died of tuberculosis a few days after giving birth to his fourth child . He was a brother of Theodor Peters , who was director of the VDI from 1891 to 1908, and the father of the medical doctor Albert Peters .

Web links

Richard Peters in the German biography

Individual evidence

^ Theodor Peters : History of the Association of German Engineers . Based on papers left by Th. Peters - Published on behalf of the board and completed by 1910. Self-published by the Association of German Engineers, Berlin 1912, p. 145-146 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Richard Peters . In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers . tape 14 , no. 3 , 1870, p. 185-192 .
↑ ^a ^b Erich Kothe : On becoming and working of the VDI . In: VDI-Z. tape 98 , no. 14 , May 11, 1956, pp. 638 .
↑ Lars U. Scholl : The engineer in training, profession and society 1856 to 1881 . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 15 .
^ Extract from the minutes of the constituent assembly of the Lower Rhine District Association of German Engineers . In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers . tape 1 , no. 1 , January 1857, p. 9 .
^ Marie-Luise Heuser , Wolfgang König : Tabular compilations on the history of the VDI . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 565 .
↑ Peter Lundgreen : The representation of technical expertise "in the interest of the entire industry in Germany" by the VDI 1856 to 1890 . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 77-78 .
↑ Peters, Theodor. In: German biography. Historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, accessed on February 13, 2019 .
^ Antje Krause, Hans-Jürgen Mende: New Rostock Cemetery - Remarkable graves . Ed .: Hanseatic City of Rostock. Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-036945-2 , pp. 63 .

personal data
SURNAME	Peters, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engineer as well as chairman and founding member of the VDI
DATE OF BIRTH	July 1, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	October 13, 1869
Place of death	St. Johann (Saar)

[1] Theodor Peters : History of the Association of German Engineers . Based on papers left by Th. Peters - Published on behalf of the board and completed by 1910. Self-published by the Association of German Engineers, Berlin 1912, p. 145-146 .

[ZdVdI-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Richard Peters . In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers . tape 14 , no. 3 , 1870, p. 185-192 .

[VDI-Z-3] Erich Kothe : On becoming and working of the VDI . In: VDI-Z. tape 98 , no. 14 , May 11, 1956, pp. 638 .

[4] Lars U. Scholl : The engineer in training, profession and society 1856 to 1881 . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 15 .

[5] Extract from the minutes of the constituent assembly of the Lower Rhine District Association of German Engineers . In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers . tape 1 , no. 1 , January 1857, p. 9 .

[6] Marie-Luise Heuser , Wolfgang König : Tabular compilations on the history of the VDI . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 565 .

[7] Peter Lundgreen : The representation of technical expertise "in the interest of the entire industry in Germany" by the VDI 1856 to 1890 . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 77-78 .

[8] Peters, Theodor. In: German biography. Historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, accessed on February 13, 2019 .

[9] Antje Krause, Hans-Jürgen Mende: New Rostock Cemetery - Remarkable graves . Ed .: Hanseatic City of Rostock. Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-036945-2 , pp. 63 .