Pioneer in Development of High-Property Aluminum Castings, Edgar Gotthold, Recalls Early Experiences in Investment Casting

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A German immigrant who came the U.S. at age 15, Edgar Gotthold, is an industry pioneer in the development of high-property aluminum castings. He is president of Tec-Cast, an aluminum investment casting foundry in Carlstadt, NJ. "I was born in Germany, and we left there after my father was released from prison. The Nazis had him in prison. He had a very large factory where he refined certain metals. When I was 15, I came here, and at 19, I was in the army in Europe as an American soldier," Gotthold said. "The army gave me the opportunity to study what I wanted to study. So I went to Columbia and I got my degree in metallurgy engineering at the end of 1949." Gotthold got his first job at Arwood (New York) in 1950 as an assistant metallurgist where he worked for several years.