Sam Eyde

Samuel ( Sam ) Eyde ( born October 29, 1866 in Arendal, † June 21, 1940 ) was a Norwegian engineer and industrialist.

Eyde completed his studies in Germany and put his degree in civil engineering in 1891 from Berlin. Between 1891 and 1895 he was in Hamburg, Dortmund and Lübeck involved in the planning of new rail lines and bridge constructions. In 1895 he married Anna Ulrikka Mörner, the daughter of a Swedish Count. From 1897 he ran together with his former boss in Hamburg and with the help of the Swedish capital the company Gleim & Eyde, the branches in Hamburg, Kristiania ( now Oslo ) and Stockholm entertained and at times employed 30 engineers.

In the Norwegian independence, in 1905, he set up in close cooperation with the Norwegian physicist Kristian Birkeland and the Swedish banker Marcus Wallenberg the company Norsk Hydro, the magnesium and aluminum initially produced in the places Notodden and Rjukan fertilizer, after the Second World War and 1964, after the death Eydes, with the oil extraction began on the Norwegian continental shelf. In the coastal town named after him, even Eydehavn (east of Arendal ) he left in 1912, an aluminum smelter and a Siliziumkarbidanlage build; Other projects he realized in Western Norway Tyssedal ( in Odda ). In various places, such as in Rjukan, he took advantage of the abundant water resources for the construction of modern power plants. The industrial plants and workers' dwellings in Rjukan, he designed the German model. 1918 left Eyde own request to the Board of Directors of Norsk Hydro.

The Technical University of Darmstadt gave Eyde in 1911 an honorary doctorate. Between 1918 and 1920 he sat as an MP in the Storting. From 1920 to 1923, he was his country's ambassador in Poland.

A year before his death completed Eyde his autobiography titled Mitt liv og mitt livsverk ( My life and my life's work ), Oslo 1939 ( 2nd edition 1956).