Walter Dyckerhoff
Walter Dyckerhoff (born December 27, 1897 in Biebrich am Rhein ; † June 8, 1977 in Wiesbaden ) was a German industrial and technical manager of the Portland cement factory Dyckerhoff & Sons .
Life
Dyckerhoff studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich after the First World War . Here he joined the Corps Franconia . In 1924 he was at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main to Dr. phil. PhD.
On January 1, 1925, he joined Dyckerhoff & Söhne and in 1931 took over the technical management of what was now Dyckerhoff-Wicking AG. After the Second World War, he first emigrated to Switzerland and then to Argentina. There he was director of Tyngatu SA in Buenos Aires and was a partner in CADIO, a factory for optical products.
Dyckerhoff was the inventor of white cement. The brand name "Dyckerhoff Weiß" is still used beyond the borders of Germany as a synonym for white Portland cement . In 1931 he signed the petition from the Economic Policy Association in Frankfurt am Main , which called for the NSDAP to participate in government .
In a lecture on October 16, 1931 with the title “To the Volksgemeinschaft!” In front of the DINTA , he demanded that the entrepreneur “close the social divide by creating the factory community, which will expand into a Volksgemeinschaft ”.
Walter Dyckerhoff was President of the IHK for Rheinhessen from 1938 to 1944.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 38 , 860
- ↑ Walter Dyckerhoff: On the course of mineral formation when heating mixtures of lime, silica and clay , University of Frankfurt, natural science dissertation 1924
- ^ Walter Dyckerhoff: To the national community! . In: Arbeitsschulung, Heft 3 1932, p. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dyckerhoff, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biebrich on the Rhine |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1977 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |