Friedrich Eisenkolb

Friedrich Eisenkolb (5 January 1901 – 29 September 1967) was a German metallurgist.

Life

Eisenkolb was born at the start of the twentieth century in Warnsdorf, at that time a small German-speaking town in northern Bohemia. His father was employed in finance security. Eisenkolb passed his School final exams in 1919 and then, from 1919 till 1923, studied Chemistry and Metallurgy at the Prague Poly-technical Institute. He received his doctorate in 1924 and went to work for Eisenwerke AG at Rothau-Neudek, on the Bohemian side of the Western Ore Mountains. In 1931 he took over as head of Quality, Research and Testing at the AG Karlshütten steel mill in Leskovec. In 1937 he obtained a further academic qualification (habilitation) from the Prague Poly-technical Institute. His dissertation again concerned itself with the properties of sheet-metals. He now took a teaching professorship, and also headed up the Research and Testing institute at the Iron and Steel works at Thale in Saxony which is where he was evidently based from 1939. In the meantime the political landscape had changed, with a single-Party dictatorship established in Germany in 1933. Frontiers shifted and Bohemia was forcibly integrated into Germany, starting in 1938 with the predominantly speaking German-speaking borderlands and ending during 1939 with the entire province integrated into Germany. Friedrich Eisenkolb became a member of the country's ruling Nazi party in 1940.

Published output Friedrich Eisenkolb's name became widely known in the German Democratic Republic thanks to his multi-volume work, "Introduction to Materials Sciences" ("Einführung in die Werkstoffkunde").

Awards and honours 1959: National Prize of East Germany for Science and Technology: Class II 1961: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver