Aleksander Schillak

Aleksander Schillak (born February 21, 1910 in Trzemeszno, March 25, 1982 in Cracow), Polish metallurgical engineer, director of metallurgical plants, lecturer at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow. Curriculum vitae

He was the son of Peter (a construction contractor) and Maria of the Tichmanns. He graduated from the state grammar school in Trzemeszno. In 1933 he started his studies at the Faculty of Metallurgy of the Mining Academy in Cracow, but he stopped studying after a year due to financial difficulties. Upon his return to the Academy, he joined the "Wanda-Lech" ministry in Nowy Bytom, later in the company "Huta Pokój". He graduated in 1939 and received his diploma only after the war in 1945. From 1937 he worked at the Zieleniewski plant in Cracow, in the technological laboratory, foundry, wholesale and zinc. He participated in the September campaign, after which he was captured by the Germans. He fled from captivity and returned to Cracow, where he continued his work at the Zieleniewski plant; Since 1942 he was poisoned in the Foundry of Machines and Agricultural Tools in Charsznica. Seeking the Gestapo, he has been hiding since 1944.

After the war he hired in the "Kościuszko" Hut in Chorzów. He was initially an assistant to take over in 1947 the management of the steelworks. In 1948 he became director of investments for Hajduk Metallurgical Works in Chorzów. In 1950 these plants were liquidated and Schillak moved to the Heavy Industry Plant Construction Company in Cracow (as an off-site construction manager) and after a few weeks to Huta im. Bieruta in Czestochowa, where he was an investment manager and chief engineer. The same position was then held at the Central Steel Industry Board in Katowice (1951-1958) and the Florian Hut in Świętochłowice.

Apart from working in companies, he was involved in scientific and didactic work. From September 1952 he was lecturer at the Department of Thermal Technology and Industrial Furnaces of the Institute of Metallurgy of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, where he taught construction and operation of industrial furnaces and heat engineering. In the years 1963-1966 he headed the Chair of Heating Economy. In 1960 he defended his doctorate in technical sciences on the basis of the study of hydraulic blast furnaces and martensite slags, and attempted to intensify them with the use of liquid slag, prepared under the direction of Feliks Olszak. In May 1971 he became a docent; He retired in September 1980.

Order of the Second Class Labor Standards. He died in March 1982 in Cracow and was buried in the Rakowicki cemetery. He was married in 1938 with Marie Antoine Harlender (died in 1991). His elder brother was Ryszard Schillak, a chemist, a docent at the Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Aleksander Schillak ogłosił około 20 prac naukowych, był współtwórcą kilku patentów. Z publikacji można wymienić Improving the hydraulic properties of blast furnace slag by activating the slag and utilizing its waste heat ("Mining Metallurgy and Related Sciences", 1959) oraz Przeprowadzenie badań nad intensywnością aktywizacji żużla wielkopiecowego celem zastosowania go na skalę przemysłową do produkcji wysokowartościowych materiałów wiążących ("Biuletyn Komitetu ds. Górnośląskiego Okręgu Przemysłowego", 1958). Bibliography

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