Wilhelm de la Sauce

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Wilhelm Karl August de la Sauce (born April 1, 1882 in Kedabek , † July 24, 1955 in Essen ) was a German mining technician and member of the board of directors of the German coal mining management in Essen.

Life

William de la sauce was the son of machinery engineer Martin de la Sauce, which for the brothers Carl and Werner von Siemens until 1885, the copper mine Kedabeg in today's Rajon gadabay district in the west of Azerbaijan headed.

After his father returned to Berlin, he first attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium and then the Luisen-Gymnasium , where he passed his Abitur in 1900. After a practical apprenticeship as a mining enthusiast at the Kedabek copper mine and in Upper Silesian coal and lead-zinc mines, he began his studies at the Bergakademie Berlin in 1902 , but interrupted it that same year to do his military service with the 4th Guards Regiment on foot in Berlin-Moabit .

After his military service, Wilhelm de la Sauce resumed his studies with a focus on geology and mineralogy with Franz Beyschlag , Paul Krusch , Hermann Rauff and Robert Scheibe , passed the mountain trainee examination in 1906 and completed his training for the higher civil service in 1910 with the mountain assessor -Examination from.

After a time as a mining engineer and technical consultant for German companies in the Caucasus , Turkey and the Crimea , he took over the management of the official test track in Neunkirchen (Saar) in the state mining company from 1912 to 1918 .

During the First World War he took part in the front as a lieutenant and first lieutenant. From 1916 he was initially employed as a police officer in the then Generalgouvernement of Warsaw and was then as captain d. R. active in the war ministry.

Wilhelm de la Sauce worked after the end of the First World War from 1919 to 1939, first as managing director and then as executive board member of the German Lignite Industry Association in Halle / Saale , whereby he made contributions to the Technical University in Berlin in the meantime in 1926 the manganese ore deposit of Chiaturi in the Caucasus to Dr.-Ing. received his doctorate .

During the Second World War he was a geological and mining consultant in Berlin. After the end of the war he was miner captain and head of the coal mining department of the east zonal central administration in Berlin in 1945/1946 and then took over the management of the mining department of the economic administration in Frankfurt am Main in 1948 .

Wilhelm de la Sauce was a member of the board of directors of the German Coal Mining Administration in Essen from 1950 to 1953.

He was a Rotarian , founding member in 1930 and, as the successor to Emil Abderhalden, from 1936 until it was banned by National Socialist legislation in 1937, he was the fourth president of the Rotary Club in Halle (Saale). After the war he was elected governor of District 97 and in May 1955 still attended the Rotary International Convention in Chicago .

From his correspondence, a letter from him from 1928 to the paleontologist Wolfgang Soergel and four letters from the period from 1928 to 1931 to the mineralogist Hans Schneiderhöhn have survived.

Honors

Wilhelm de la Sauce was made an honorary senator of the Bergakademie Freiberg in 1926 and became a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1932 .

In 1950 he became an honorary member of the German Geological Society .

In 1951 he was awarded the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal of the German Mineralogical Society .

Fonts

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the manganese ore deposit of Chiaturi in the Caucasus . Treatises on practical geology and mining economics, 8, Verlag Wilhelm Knapp, Halle (Saale) 1926

literature

  • Karl Oberste-Brink : Obituary for Wilhelm de la Sauce . In: Journal of the German Geological Society , 108, 1956, pp. 317-320
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. Volume 9. Saur, Munich 2008, p. 711 digitized

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1955 Proceedings: Forty-Sixth Annual Convention of Rotary International, Rotary International, Chicago 1955, p. 314 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Sauce, Wilhelm de la
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sauce, Wilhelm Karl August de la (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining technician
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Kedabek
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1955
Place of death eat