Walter Gerhäuser

Walter Gerhäuser (born July 30, 1900 in Altengronau , † October 25, 1993 in Bad Brückenau ) was a German engineer and marble manufacturer .

Life

Walter Gerhäuser studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University Berlin-Charlottenburg and joined the Corps Saxonia-Berlin in the winter semester 1920/1921. After completing his studies as a graduate engineer, he joined his father's company, the Gerhäuser marble works in Altengronau, around 1925 , which he later took over. The company also had stakes in quarries for Lahn marble . Under the management of Walter Gerhäuser, the company acquired the majority shares in 1956 and all shares in the Cologne marble works in 1964.

After retiring from management, which he gave his son Dr. Entrusted to Christian Gerhäuser, he summarized his professional experience of working rocks from five decades in the text Contribution to the processing possibilities of different types of stone with diamond disks of different compositions . With this document he received his doctorate in engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich , making him one of the oldest doctoral students in Germany. In the course of these studies he and Carl Meyer Marktredwitz developed a band saw for cutting granite . A special feature of this development was the wobbling table.

Walter Gerhäuser was a member of the board and president of the German and the European Natural Stone Association for many years . Together with Hellmut Metzing , he was one of the leading personalities in Germany's natural stone industry in the 20th century. He was the father of five children.

Awards

Walter Gerhäuser was the recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . The award was presented to him in 1990 on his 90th birthday in recognition of his life's work by Barbara Stamm .

When he left active association work as 1st chairman and later president of the German Natural Stone Association (DNV) in 1970, he was appointed honorary president of the DNV.

literature

• Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967 , Aachen 1968
• A life for natural stone, 90, birthday party for Dr.-Ing. Walter Gerhäuser, July 29, 1990 . In Sachsenblatt 1990 , pp. 37-39.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} memorial Walter Gerhäuser . In: Sachsenblatt 1993
2. ↑ Thomas Kirnbauer: Nassauer Marble or Lahn Marble - a world-famous natural stone from Germany Nassau Marble or Lahn Marble - a famous Devonian dimension stone from Germany . In: Series of publications of the German Society for Geosciences, Issue 59 (2008), pp. 187–218, Hanover ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.8 MB) 
3. ↑ 125 years of Cologne marble works . In: Nachrichten des Bundes deutscher Baumeister, Architekten und Ingenieure eV, Landesausgabe NRW, Edition April / May 2010, p. 25, ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. 
4. ^ Walter Gerhäuser: Dissertation Technical University of Munich, 1974