Wilhelm Groß (mining scientist)

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Wilhelm Groß (born February 28, 1883 in Bruchsal ; † October 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German mining scientist.

Life and activity

Education and early career

Born the son of a businessman, Wilhelm Groß attended secondary school in Pforzheim and then served as a one-year volunteer in the field artillery regiment No. 66. He then studied at the Freiberg Mining Academy . In 1904 he became a member of the Corps Montania Freiberg . In 1906 he passed the diploma examination as a mining engineer and in 1907 as a mining engineer . Initially working as an assistant to Paul Wilski , in 1908 he went to the general management of de Wendel's coal mines in Klein-Rosseln in Lorraine as head of the mine surveyors and assistant to the general director . In 1911 he moved to the Marie-Luise union in Staffelfelden in Upper Alsace as works manager .

In 1913, Groß was appointed lecturer for mountain sciences at the Technical University in Breslau . He became a Dr.-Ing. PhD. In 1923 he was appointed associate professor and, in the same year, full professor for mining and processing at the Technical University of Wroclaw. He was the director of the reprocessing institute.

From 1926 to 1927 he was dean of his faculty. He published numerous papers, especially on the subject of processing, in specialist journals. He was a member of the Society of German Metalworkers and Miners and the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture. During the First World War , as a lieutenant in the Landwehr, he was the leader of an artillery squad.

time of the nationalsocialism

Because of his Jewish descent, Groß was deported to a concentration camp in Thuringia after the Reichspogromnacht . Due to the personal use of his colleague Ludger Mintrop , Groß was able to leave the concentration camp before Christmas 1938. On the mediation of Mintrop he was supposed to emigrate from Germany via Holland to the USA. Apparently he never left Holland for the USA (see below).

After his emigration, Groß was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police: in the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin - which mistakenly suspected him to be in Great Britain - then put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who were particularly dangerous to the NS surveillance apparatus important, which is why, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, they should be located and arrested by the special SS commandos following the occupation forces.

After the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940, Groß must have fallen into the hands of the Nazi persecution apparatus at some point between 1940 and 1944: one last sign of life from him in the form of a letter to one of his corps brothers from a concentration camp in 1944 Romania, where he was employed to manage the camp mail.

Groß and his wife Gertrud were finally murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in October 1944.

Afterlife

The Groß heirs reached an agreement with the Würth Collection on the whereabouts of a painting by Max Liebermann from the Carl Sachs collection, confiscated in 1939 and now restituted , an uncle of Gertrud Groß, nee. Sachs, in the exhibition.

family

From his marriage to Getrud? three children were born: the sons Carl (* 1919) and Nicolaus (1927) and the daughter Dorothea (* 1920). They managed to flee to England and Australia at the end of the 1930s.

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Blau, Gottfried Schilling: Chronicle of Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen , Part 1, Corps Montania Freiberg / Saxony 1798-1935 , 1977, p. 139
  2. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 141.
  3. ^ Technical University of Breslau 1910-2010 (in Polish)
  4. ^ Entry on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
  5. ↑ Gerhard Keppner: Ludger Mintrop: The man who looked into the earth - Die Eroberung des Untergrunds , 2012, pp. 145–146 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Würth Collection (6413); Max Liebermann: Boys after bathing
  7. ↑ Report at www.schlesischesammlungen.eu
personal data
SURNAME Great, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal
DATE OF DEATH October 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp