Waldemar Scheithauer
Waldemar Scheithauer (born February 23, 1864 in Gaumnitz ; † August 13, 1942 in Naumburg (Saale) ) was a German industrialist and general director of Werschen-Weißenfelser Braunkohlen AG.
Life
Scheithauer, son of a landowner, attended the village school in Gladitz near Gaumnitz, the Prorealgymnasium in Naumburg and the Realgymnasium in Halle (Saale) , where he graduated from high school at Easter 1883. He studied chemistry in Halle and Heidelberg , where he was a member of the Corps Borussia Halle and Rhenania Heidelberg . After graduating as Dr. phil. in Heidelberg (1887) he began his professional career as an assistant at the Technical University in Karlsruhe . In 1888 he became a chemist in the mineral oil and paraffin industry in the province of Saxony , in 1898 technical director and member of the board of the Waldauer Braunkohlen-Industrie AG in Zeitz , in 1911 after their merger in the same capacity at Werschen-Weißenfelser Braunkohlen AG in Halle (Saale). Since 1917 he was its general director. In 1925 he retired.
Scheithauer was a co-founder of the Brown Coal Research Institute in Freiberg , member of the supervisory board of the Anhalt coal works (Halle), the oxygen works in Werschen , the Mitteldeutsche Verlags AG (Halle) and 1911-1918 board member of the Association of German Chemists . He died in Naumburg in 1942 and was buried there in the cemetery on Weißenfelser Straße (grave still available).
Awards
Scheithauer was Honorary Senator of the University of Halle, Dr.-Ing. hc from Bergakademie Freiberg and Dr. rer. nat. hc from Heidelberg University (1936). The German Brown Coal Industry Association in Halle (Saale) appointed him an honorary member on June 19, 1925, as did the Hallesche Bergwerksverein .
Works
- The manufacture of mineral oils and paraffin from carbon black and slate, as well as the manufacture of candles and oil gas (= Handbuch der chemical Technologie 1), Braunschweig 1895
- The lignite tar products and the oil gas . 1907, 2nd edition 1923
- The smoldering tar, its extraction and processing (= chemical technology in individual representations 2), 2nd edition, Leipzig 1922
literature
- Norman Fuchsloch: Scheithauer, Waldemar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 641 ( digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheithauer, Waldemar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist and general director of Weißenfelser Braunkohlen AG |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gaumnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1942 |
| Place of death | Naumburg (Saale) |