... B U T W H O
W A S F
H U B N E R ... ?
... born as preemie ("smaller than a cigar box") at home in the Ruhr Area on April 9th 1916, during the First World War. He survived against all odds - but who was F HUBNER ...?
- 1923 - 1930 Elementary/Middle school
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1930 World economic crisis,
he has to drop out of school
after the insolvency of his fathers agricultural wholesale company in RECKLINGHAUSEN SOUTH ... - 1930 - 1934 Electrician apprenticeship
- 1934 - 1936 Electrician
- 1936 - 1937 Fatigue duty
- 1937 Sudden death of his father
- 1937 - 1939 Military service as radio operator
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1939 - 1945 War service ... in Czechoslovakia and France, then in
Russia where almost all members of his military unit die until 1943 - afterwards, he changes as a trained radio master technician to Greece, Italy, Denmark and on the front line near southwestern Germany -
May - Aug 1945 American war captivity on the Rhine in Ludwigshafen
- 1945 - 1958 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN , as master technician he switches to booming industry of the RUHR in 1952
- 1946 Marriage
- 1953 Birth of his son ... passed away suddenly in 1982
- 1958 - 1979 Electrical engineer in plant construction, mainly for the coal mining industry - in particular further developing and often short-term restart or recommissioning of ELECTROMAGNETIC VIBRATING CONVEYORS, licensed by a company in Columbus, Ohio. A new Voigtlander Vitomatic IIa is his camera in this time...
- 1979 - 1989 F. Hubner and his wife host several receptions for Chinese visitor groups, one of them gives him business cards and a stamp with his name in Chinese characters ...
... sudden death in the Ruhr Area on August 30th 1996 ...