Shitagau Noguchi
Shitagau Noguchi (野 口 遵Japanese ), born July 26, 1873 in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan; † January 15, 1944 ) was a Japanese industrial pioneer who founded numerous companies and is heavily involved in Korea and Manchuria. That he built an industrial conglomerate Nitchitsu (Japanese Nitchitsu Group ,日 窒 コンツェルン, Nichitsu - kontserun ), was smashed after the Second World War by the High Command of the Allies. Among the successor companies to find well-known names such as Chisso Asahi Kasei, Sekisui Chemical ( Sekisui Kagaku Kōgyō ) and Shin -Etsu Chemical ( Shin-etsu Kagaku Kōgyō ).
Life
Noguchi comes from an impoverished former samurai family in Kanazawa. He studied electrical engineering at the Imperial University of Tokyo, and in 1898 set by the Japanese branch of Siemens and Halske. In 1903 he built the first Japanese production plant for calcium carbide in Sendai. Three years later, made the German chemist Adolph Frank and his German - Polish colleague Nicodemus Caro their new process for the production of calcium cyanamide known. Noguchi realized that this method was also suitable for the production of calcium carbide, went to Germany and was awarded with the support of a friend at Siemens the right to use the patent in Japan. He stood out by far larger and already -known companies such as Mitsui and Furukawa.
In 1906 he founded the hydroelectric plant Sogi Denki (曽 木 电 気, " Sogi electricity" ) in Kagoshima Prefecture. With excess capacity, he provided one of him in 1907 in Minamata ( Kumamoto Prefecture), founded Nihon Carbide Shokai (日本 カーバイド 商会, Nihon Kābaido Shokai ). In 1908 he united with the support of both companies for Mitsubishi Nihon Chisso Hiryō (日本 窒 素 肥料" nitrogen fertilizers Japan" ), abbreviated Nichitsu that the core of the large Japanese companies ( zaibatsu was ).
1914 Noguchi founded the Hiroshima Dento (広 島 电灯, " power station Hiroshima " ) in order to tap the rich water resources of the Chugoku region. The company Denryoku Chūgoku (中国 电力, Eng. Chugoku Electric Power ), which today has the quasi - monopoly supply for the Central Japanese space goes back to this company.
1921 Noguchi acquired by the Italian chemist Luigi Casale ( 1882-1927 ) the patent for synthetic ammonia and built in Nobeoka ( Miyazaki prefecture ) a production facility, which gave him a dominant position on the market for ammonium sulfate.
In 1924, he decided to get involved in Korea, which had been fully annexed since 1910 under the name chosen by Japan. Here he founded in 1925 with the support of the Japanese Government General the Chosen Suiryoku Denki (朝鲜 水力 电 気, " hydropower Korea " ), which built huge plants especially in the north of the peninsula. Added to this was in May 1927, the company Chisso Chosen Hiryō (朝鲜 窒 素 肥料, "Nitrogen fertilizer Korea " ), in addition to fertilizers and explosives, soda, etc. produced.
In 1929 he purchased from the German JP Bemberg AG the rights to use their artificial silk process and founded the company Bemberg Japan ( Asahi Kasei today ).
1937 produced Noguchi's 12 power plants on the Korean peninsula total 870,000 kWh. 1939 were 34 percent of industrial production in Korea back to the company Nichitsu Group. The following year, however, Noguchi suffered a brain hemorrhage in Seoul, after which he withdrew more and more from the active transactions.
In 1941 he founded with five billion yen from his personal assets, the Korean Scholarship Foundation, which took care of Korean students in Japan. In the same year he ended pins for the Advancement of Science with 25 million yen in the Noguchi Institute. Both foundations exist in modified form today. 1941 Noguchi was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, First Class (瑞宝 章Zuihōshō ). In 1994, he died at the age of 72 years.
Individual successor companies Asahi Kasei Nobeoka as supply today with power from proprietary power plants. During the entire western part of Japan is working with 60 Hertz, has this proprietary power still 50 Hertz, as Noguchi due to his contacts with Germany introduced at that time.