Ulrich Petersen (engineer)
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Ulrich Petersen (born September 29, 1907 in Breslau ; † June 2, 1992 in Düsseldorf ) was a German iron and steel engineer and manager in the coal and steel industry.
Life
Petersen studied at the Technical University of Wroclaw , the cabin compartment . Since 1928 he was a member of the Corps Borussia Breslau . As a graduate engineer , he joined Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG in 1935 . He began in Bous (Saar) , became head of the rolling mill in Remscheid in 1939 and returned to Bous in 1941 as chief engineer for the entire warming plant. In 1943 he took over the management of the Schönbrunn plant near Mährisch-Ostrau . After the Second World War , Petersen managed and modernized the main Remscheid plant. In 1955 he took over the technical management of what was then the largest and most technically demanding tube factory in Düsseldorf-Rath . Since 1957 on the board of the Mannesmann-Hüttenwerke AG, he was entrusted with the technical management of the metallurgical and rolling mills in Huckingen , Gelsenkirchen and Finnentrop . Petersen was appointed deputy member of the executive board of Mannesmann AG in 1959 and a full member in 1960. He was responsible for the technical support of all metallurgical, steel and rolling mills in the group.
Petersen developed the continuous casting for bulk steel, in 1959 operated the general license agreement of the German steel industry with Brassert Oxygen Technik AG on the use of the oxygen blowing process and ensured the construction of a joint large-scale transshipment facility for ore in Rotterdam .
Awards
- 1968: Dr.-Ing. E. h. of the RWTH
- 1975: Carl Lueg commemorative coin
literature
- Obituary, in: Stahl und Eisen 112 (1992) No. 7.
- Horst A. Wessel: Petersen, Ulrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , pp. 259 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Ulrich Petersen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 78/811
- ↑ Entry May 9, 1952 on Brassert-Oxygen-Technik AG in the Voest-Alpine timeline at www.geschichteclubstahl.at , accessed on August 28, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petersen, Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German iron and steel engineer and industrial manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd June 1992 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |