Steel Institute VDEh

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The steel institute VDEh is the technical-scientific joint organization of the German steel industry based in Düsseldorf . It was founded in 1860 as the "Technical Association for Metallurgy" and a. by the Privy Councilor of Commerce Rudolf Haas , Friedrich Osann became the first managing director .

history

The "Technical Association for Metallurgy", founded in November 1860, joined the Association of German Engineers in November 1861 as a branch . This connection was terminated in 1880. On July 1, 1881, the first edition of the association magazine Stahl und Eisen appeared , which is still published today.

From 1880 to 2002 the name of the association was "Association of German Ironworkers (VDEh)", in 2003 the name was changed to "Steel Institute VDEh" - the abbreviation VDEh was adopted as part of the name. The association has around 6,600 members, plus around 160 supporting and cooperative member companies.

Friedrich Springorum , who has been in office since 1905, modernized the VDEh on an organizational and technical level. The activities of the two long-term managing directors Emil Schrödter and Otto Petersen were of great importance for the association's external impact. Springorum's successor was Albert Vögler († April 14, 1945) in 1917 . In 1936 Fritz Springorum took over the chairmanship, which he gave up in 1939 due to illness. Eduard Herzog, CEO of August Thyssen-Hütte since July 1945, became chairman of the VDEh in 1946.

The association promotes the further development of steel technology and the material steel through the technical, technical-scientific and scientific cooperation of engineers . He maintains his own educational offers and performs tasks in the area of ​​advice and assessment and representation of interests by participating in international bodies.

The association participates in the standardization work nationally through cooperation in DIN e. V. , but also by developing a separate series of technical rules, which are identified with the abbreviation "SEB". Over 270 SEB standards have appeared. Participation in DIN takes place through the " Iron and Steel Standards Committee (FES)" founded in 1947 , whose office is organized and financially supported by the association. The FES also works with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the European Committee for Iron and Steel Standardization (ECISS).

The steel institute publishes its own specialist publications, operates an extensive archive of images and films, and participates in research into the history of technology . It maintains the Betriebsforschungsinstitut (BFI) (founded in 1968 with founding director Karl Heinz Mommertz , non-profit GmbH since 1971). and is a partner of the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH (MPIE) together with the co-partner Max Planck Society .

Chairman - and at the same time president of the steel trade association - has been Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff since April 2008 . Peter Dahlmann has been the managing director since July 2010 .

Carl Lueg commemorative coin

As the highest award for services to the German steel industry, the steel institute awards the Carl Lueg commemorative coin named after the long-standing chairman of the Gutehoffnungshütte . So far, among others:

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  1. ^ Report on the effectiveness of the district associations and the branch association of the Association of German Engineers . In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers . tape 12 , no. 11 , 1868, p. 716 .
  2. ↑ Antek Schwarz: Stahl writes history . In: steel and iron . tape 137 , no. 4 , 2017, p. 107-108 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Zilt: Between armaments industry, "Zero hour" and economic miracle. Eduard Herzog and the Association of German Ironworkers . In: Helmut Maier et al. (Ed.): 150 Years of the Steel Institute VDEh , 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0051-6
  4. ↑ History of the VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH (BFI) ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfi.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 28, 2016).
  5. ↑ a b Antek Schwarz: Stahl writes history . stahl und eisen 136 (2016) No. 1, pp. 84–86.
  6. ↑ Antek Schwarz: Stahl writes history . stahl und eisen 135 (2015) No. 10, pp. 89–90.
  7. ↑ Maier, Helmut / Zilt, Andreas / Rasch ,: 150 VDEh selection chronicle . In: 150 VDEh selection chronicle, Essen. Manfred (Ed.), 2010, accessed July 25, 2017 .