Rudolf Beyschlag

Rudolf Beyschlag (born May 9, 1891 in Berlin ; † August 24, 1961 in Heiligenkirchen near Detmold) was a German civil engineer .

Life

As the son of the President of the Prussian Geological State Institute Franz Beyschlag (1856-1935) in Berlin , Rudolf Beyschlag grew up as a Protestant and in 1911/12 became a miner at the Bonn Mining Authority . From 1912 he studied in Munich and Berlin and from 1914 was a war volunteer in Flanders and Russia . In 1917/18 he took on technical tasks for the fourth Turkish army in Syria and Palestine .

In 1919 he made the legal traineeship at the Oberbergamt Bonn and became a mountain trainee from 1919–1922. As a mining engineer, he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Munich in 1920 and successfully completed the Bergassessor exam in 1922. From 1922 he was initially a mining assessor at the Prussian State Geological Institute in Berlin , but in 1923 he was promoted to director of the East German lignite works. Two years later he worked as a department head in the Sauerbrey machine factory in Staßfurt near Magdeburg .

After successfully completing his habilitation (1927) at the Technical University of Berlin on the subject of coal refining, he taught there as a private lecturer and worked in the mining department of the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry from 1929 to 1934 and was appointed Oberbergrat in 1930. From 1933 he was a member of both the NSDAP and the SA . In 1934 he was appointed Ministerialrat and worked from 1934 to 1945 as a full professor for mining, processing and briquetting and processing, coal refining and deep drilling technology at the Technical University of Berlin . He initiated the mining collection or the permanent mining collection at the Technical University of Berlin, the whereabouts of which remained unclear after the Second World War .

From 1937 he headed the mining and metallurgy department in the Reich Research Council . In 1945 he was released and after the end of the war worked as a research assistant at the International Construction and Construction Equipment Company in Hildesheim . In 1948 he was declared unfit for work by the Detmold district administration's health department. In 1949 he was classified as "exonerated" by the Chamber for Political Review of Beneficiaries in Detmold and received pension payments in 1949. Finally, in 1957, he got the status of a full professor emeritus at the Technical University of Berlin . Rudolf Beyschlag died on August 24, 1961 in Heiligenkirchen near Detmold.

His brother was the entrepreneur Bernhard Beyschlag (1900–1980). His son was the Erlangen church historian Karlmann Beyschlag (1923–2011).

Works

• Economics and culture. Faust, Munich 1915.
• "More light!". Faust, Munich 1915.
• The demand for the redesign of the smoldering technology is based on its historical development. , Technical University of Munich 1920 (dissertation)
• New and old ways of smoldering lignite and slate. Ernst, Berlin 1920 (2nd extended edition of the "Development of the Smoldering Industry").

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 23.
• Press office of the Reich Ministry of Education (ed.): A day of honor for German science. The opening of the Reich Research Council on May 25, 1937, Berlin 1937, p. 37.
• Karl Hugo Strunz : From the Bergakademie to the Technical University of Berlin 1770–1970 , Berlin 1970.