Wilhelm Landmann

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Wilhelm Landmann in the Couleur des Corps Stauffia Stuttgart, Berlin 1895

William Landmann (* 25. January 1869 in the north (Ostfriesland) ; † 2. July 1945 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) was a German chemist and Director General of WASAG ( W estfälisch- A nhaltische S prengstoff- A ctien- G ompany ).

Life

Wilhelm Landmann came from an old East Frisian factory owner family. His father Ludwig Landmann (1826–1887) was a partner in the Norder Eisenhütte. After graduating from high school in 1889, he studied chemistry, metallurgy and mechanical engineering at first at the University of Breslau and from 1890 to 1892 at the Technical University of Stuttgart . In Stuttgart he joined the Corps Stauffia . After an internship at the Fürstlich Stolbergische Hütte in Ilsenburg in 1893, he continued his studies at the Technical University of Berlin and the Bergakademie Berlin , which he graduated as an engineer-chemist in 1895.

In 1895 he began his professional career as a laboratory chemist in the Coswig plant of WASAG , founded by Max Bielefeldt in 1891 , where basic chemicals such as sulfuric acid , nitric acid and glycerine were manufactured. In 1896 he was appointed industrial chemist and deputy works manager and one year later works manager of the Reinsdorf near Wittenberg plant . Here were dynamite , saltpeter , gun cotton , Westfalit, Sprengsalpeter and other explosive chemicals produced. In 1899 he was assistant director in the main administration and was granted power of attorney . From 1907 to 1936 he was General Director of WASAG as the successor to Max Bielefeldt . During this time he was also deputy chairman of the supervisory board of G. Neukranz AG, Salzwedel, Meyer & Riemann Chemische Werke AG, Hannover-Linden, Süddeutsche Sprengstoffwerke AG, Munich, and Zünderwerke Ernst Brün AG, Krefeld-Linn. After his work as General Director of WASAG, he was still a member of the Supervisory Board of WASAG-Chemie, which was spun off from WASAG in 1942.

In 1941 he determined his fortune to posthumously establish the Dr. Wilhelm Landmann Foundation to support needy employees of WASAG and WASAG-Chemie. The foundation started its activities in 1954 and was transferred to the WASAG Foundation for Study Support in 2009.

In addition to the economic and technical expansion of WASAG through the construction of new plants and the acquisition of existing companies, application-safe and weatherproof explosives were developed under the leadership of Wilhelm Landmann, which prevailed because of their frost, firedamp and coal dust protection as well as their low smoke content. In the laboratories and research institutes he directed, decisive contributions to the further development of the modern civil explosives industry were made, especially in the period after the First World War.

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His name is immortalized on the table in the five-member corner in the castle tavern of the Wachenburg .
  2. ^ Resolution of the Düsseldorf District Government of July 6, 2009 (PDF file; 152 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Farmer, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farmer, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and General Director of WASAG
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH North (East Frisia)
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1945
Place of death Berlin-Zehlendorf