Karl Slevogt
Karl Joachim Slevogt (born December 29, 1876 in Sparneck , † September 6, 1951 in Weilheim ) was a German designer , automobile pioneer and racing driver .
Life
Karl Slevogt was the eldest of five children of the Sparneck forester Franz Karl Slevogt and cousin of the painter Max Slevogt . He finished his studies at the Technikum Mittweida in 1898 as a mechanical engineer. After completing his military service in Bayreuth, he became technical director and first designer in 1901 at the Cudell Motor Compagnie in Aachen . There he mainly developed two- and four-cylinder engines . In 1904 he was the first to drive a car on the Waldstein . His son Karl Eugen Slevogt was a physicist and company founder.
Act
In 1906 Slevogt started at Laurin & Klement as chief designer. In the autumn of 1907, he moved to the Puch works in Graz as technical and design manager . In 1910 he became the first designer at A. Ruppe & Sohn , the later Apollo works , in Apolda . The automobiles he developed there bore the name Apollo , which was also adopted as the company name in 1910. Slevogt introduced water cooling, modern body shapes and individually suspended front wheels, which contributed to the success of the brand. From 1913 he also worked as a technical director in the management. As driver of the ADAC Thuringia, the discovery of the Schleiz triangular race track in 1922 is attributed to him. In 1922 and 1923 Karl Slevogt won the race of the 5 HP automobiles in an Apollo 4/20 PS at the Solitude mountain test drive and the Solitude Mountain Prize in Stuttgart .
From 1924 to 1927 Karl Slevogt was the technical director of Selve Automobilwerke AG in Hameln . From this time on he worked as a freelance designer and expert. Karl Slevogt was successful as a racing driver with his designs and set several records. In 1909 he set a speed record for four-cylinder cars in a Puch racing car, which was considered unbroken for more than 15 years. Among other things, he won a race in Ostend in 1911 with an Apollo racing car and set a world record of 108 km / h. In 1929 he took second place behind Rudolf Caracciola in a race .
literature
- Rolf Meier: Karl Slevogt from Sparneck - car pioneer and racing driver . In: Leaves from the Fichtel Mountains and Franconian Forest . No. 7, year 63, Münchberg-Helmbrechts daily newspaper 1977.
- Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoss: Slevogt, Karl Joachim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 500 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jan-Peter Domschke, Sabine Dorn, Hansgeorg Hofmann, Rosemarie Poch, Marion Stascheit: Mittweida's engineers all over the world . Hochschule Mittweida (ed.): Mittweida 2014, p. 102f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.spitzerer.de/ausfahrten/2010_3.htm#denkmal
- ↑ http://www.autowallpaper.de/Wallpaper/sonstige_Autos/Rupp_Sohn_Piccolo_mobbel/rupp_sohn_piccolo_mobbel.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Slevogt, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Slevogt, Carl Joachim (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German designer, automobile pioneer and racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sparneck |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1951 |
| Place of death | Weilheim |