Wilhelm Dörr (politician)

Wilhelm Ernst Dörr (born June 24, 1882 in Solingen ; † March 21, 1954 in Überlingen ) was a German engineer , airship designer and politician ( DemP , FDP ).

Life

Wilhelm Dörr was born as the son of a secret student councilor and senior director of studies. After attending the high school in Solingen and the secondary school in Frankfurt-Bockenheim , he went on a study trip to England from 1897 to 1898 . He then attended the Klinger secondary school in Frankfurt am Main , where he graduated from high school in 1900. He completed a shipbuilding apprenticeship at the Vulcan shipyard in Stettin and did military service from 1901 to 1902 with the sailor artillery regiment of the 1st Marine Division . He then studied shipbuilding at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg. In the summer of 1909 he passed the examination as a graduate engineer and finally worked for one semester as an assistant to Oswald Flamm at the chair for theory and design of ships.

Dörr worked as a factory engineer at DELAG from 1910 and designed the airship port in Potsdam until 1911 . Since November 1911 he acted as an airship commander of LZ 10 "Schwaben" , in the fire of which he was injured in Düsseldorf in June 1912 . After that he was in charge of LZ 11 "Viktoria Luise" before he took over the management of the airship LZ 13 "Hansa" in August 1912 . After the outbreak of World War I , from 1914 onwards he managed the expansion of the Potsdam airship port into an airship shipyard. In 1915 he was appointed director by Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin and entrusted with the construction of another airship yard in Berlin-Staaken , which began operations in 1916. During the war, 17 zeppelins were built in Potsdam and 10 zeppelins in Berlin-Staaken under his direction. For his services he was awarded the Iron Cross on a White Ribbon , the Oldenburg Friedrich August Cross and the Swedish Wasa Order II. Class . From 1918 he worked together with Claude Dornier as managing director of the Zeppelin Werk Lindau GmbH . As such, he was involved in the design of the Dornier metal planes.

After the end of the war, airship construction was banned and the plant in Lindau was closed as part of the Versailles Peace Treaty , whereupon Dörr moved to the administration of the Zeppelin Group in Friedrichshafen in 1919 . In the summer of 1920 he accompanied the general manager of the zeppelin company Alfred Colsman to the United States , which he traveled again from 1923 to 1925 for business reasons. Subsequently, he was entrusted as a patent engineer with the management of the patent office responsible for foreign patents and foreign relations.

Dörr joined the Democratic Party in 1946, from which the state association of the FDP South Baden emerged in 1948. From 1946 to 1947 he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Baden .

Wilhelm Dörr died in 1954 at the age of 71. He was buried in the municipal cemetery in Friedrichshafen .

literature

• State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): MdL, The Members of the State Parliaments in Baden-Württemberg 1946−1978 , Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-911930-2 , p. 108

Individual evidence

1. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Wilhelm Dörr