Life

Polarized as a son of a bank buyer of huguenot descent in Magdeburg one bore. Its he spent child and youth years however in Weimar, where he completed his Abitur at the material High School.

1867 stepped the technically interested polarized a position on as a draughtsman into the Magdeburger engine works of Hermann Gruson. It carried then its military service out at the Magdeburgi engineer battalion 4 off and participated in the French-German war 1870/1871 and the FE storage of Paris.

Between 1872 and 1874 polarized at the trade academy Berlin studied. In the age of 26 years polarized 1875 the position transferred upper engineer in the company Gruson. Chief work area was the arms technology and in particular the use of explosives.

In the year 1885 polarized, supported from the entrepreneur Rudolf wolf acquired, a Magdeburger armature factory. Became first 23 if persons employ, the number of the employees trebled itself within two years. The break-through to a large-scale enterprise succeeded polarized, when the Prussian war Ministry assigned it the supply of 40 million for the then new army rifle 98. Pole width unit enterprise became one of the largest ammunition producers of Germany. For the processing of the large order invested polarized in a new production building, new machines and the training of skilled workers. Developed for the increase of the efficiency an automated supply from workpieces polarized to the machines. Also by it a new rolling procedure was created, with which rolling balls the rolling procedure took over. Polarized created various precision machines and whole production lines to the production of projectile cases and belongs in such a way to the pioneers of automated manufacturing.

Honours

1903 took place its appointment as the royal Kommerzienrat. In the year 1909 the technical university Berlin Charlottenburg, the former trade academy Berlin, lent to it honour for the sake of the title Dr. - engineer, for its scientific work in the area of the weapon technology. The city Magdeburg designated occasionally it in honours a road as polarizing race.

Literature/source

• Manfred Beckert, Magdeburger biographic encyclopedia, 2002, Magdeburg, ISBN 3-933046-49-1
• Martin Wiehle, Magdeburger personalities, 1993, Magdeburg, ISBN 3-910146-06-6

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