Walter Lwowski

Walter Lwowski (born January 14, 1882 in Halle (Saale) ; † July 29, 1963 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German iron and steel engineer .

Life

Lwowski, son of machine manufacturer Victor Lwowski and brother Hermann Lwowskis , studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Hanover and the Bergakademie Berlin and received his doctorate in 1921 as Dr.-Ing. In 1910 he was one of the co-founders of the engineering reference work “Eisenhütte. Pocket book for ironworkers "and until 1961 was a long-time employee of the standard work" Hütte - Des Ingenieurs Taschenbuch ". From 1906 to 1913 he was a designer and rolling mill engineer in various companies, then rolling mill boss of the Hüsten trade union in Hüsten .

Professional activity in Japan

From 1921 he worked to set up a tinplate rolling mill at Nitto Seiko (Nitto Steel) in Kawasaki (Kanagawa Prefecture), and from autumn 1922 Lwowski took over the position of rolling mill director at the Imperial Japanese Steelworks in Yawata. During this time he acted as an expert for other Japanese rolling mills such as the Kawasaki shipyard in Kobe , where he was in demand as an appraiser for various operations in the shipyard and as an expert for large new buildings.

In 1924/1925, Lwowski prepared a report on the state of Japanese industry, especially the iron industry, on behalf of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Trade. As an expert in rolling mills, he held lectures in Tokyo and at Tōhoku University in Sendai .

Lwowski has made great contributions to tinplate production in Japan. 

Friedrich-Alfred-Hütte, Rheinhausen (Rheinhausen ironworks)

After a study trip through the North American iron and steel industry (1926), Lwowski returned to Europe and became operational director of the rolling mill at the Friedrich-Alfred-Hütte (Hüttenwerk Rheinhausen) .

Lwowski was director of the Friedrich-Alfred-Hütte from 1932 to 1946 and was a deputy member of the Krupp board of directors from 1943 .  

In 1932 Lwowski set up the first fully continuous semi-finished product line in Germany in the Friedrich-Alfred-Hütte .

After his release from a US internment camp , Lwowski worked as a consulting engineer for German metallurgical plants from 1946 to 1961. 

Fonts

• Investigations into the fate of the Hüsten trade union . Dissertation, Berlin 1921.
• Struggle for progress and its teaching. In: Stahl und Eisen 63rd year 1943, p. 451.

Literature and Sources

• History of Fukuoka Prefecture - Documents of the Modern Era, Documents on the "Imperial Japanese Steel Mill" in Yawata. Volume 1, Fukuoka 1995; Volume 2, Fukuoka 1998.
• Josef Kreiner, Regine Mathias : Germany - Japan in the interwar period. In: Studium Universale Volume 12 (series of publications University of Bonn), Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990.
• Steel and iron - magazine for the German iron and steel industry , 83rd year 1963, issue 24, p. 1604 (obituary).
• Susanne Lwowski: Our memories of Japan. Letters from the years 1921–1926. Private print, 1940.
• Nippon. Journal of Japanese Studies. Berlin and Tokyo 1936, issue 2.
• Report from the German Embassy in Tokyo to the Foreign Office in Berlin, June 10, 1926. Tokyo 1926.
• Report from the German Embassy Tokyo to the chairman of the supervisory board von Krupp, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , April 5, 1926. Tokyo 1926.
• Uwe Kessler: On the history of management at Krupp. From the beginning of the company to the dissolution of Fried. Krupp AG (1811-1943) . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06486-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} German Biographical Encyclopedia - Online Edition , Munich and Leipzig 2008. Doc-ID: 6-6156 and 6-6159. As of March 11, 2008.
2. ^ ^{A b c} Fritz Pudor, Walther Däbritz: Life pictures from the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area. Born 1962-1967. Baden-Baden 1977.
3. ^ ^{A b c} Wolfhard Weber: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien. Engineers in the Ruhr area. Volume 17. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-402-06753-6 .