Paul Reisser

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Stuttgarter hunting: Paul Reisser far right (1899)

Paul Reisser (born March 21, 1843 in Esslingen ; † June 1927 ) was a Württemberg pioneer in electrical engineering .

Life

Paul Reisser

Paul Reisser studied at the Stuttgart Polytechnic and became a member of the Corps Stauffia . After seeing the first electric light bulbs at the international electricity exhibition in Paris in 1881 , he began building electrical lighting systems in Stuttgart the following year . In February 1882 he started up the first demonstration system with a Gramme machine in Stuttgart with 2 kW and 65 volts for 30 light bulbs.

In 1900 he founded the Waldsee - Aulendorf electricity company . Five years later he had to give up sole ownership and convert the company into a stock corporation.

The TH Stuttgart appointed him Dr. hc of engineering.

literature

  • Max Miller, Dr. Paul Sauer: The history of Württemberg from the founding of the Empire until today, W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1971, p. 151.
  • Wolfgang Leiner: Paul Reisser. A Württemberg pioneer in electrical engineering . In: Wolfgang Leiner (Ed.): Selected lectures on the history of technology . Stuttgart 1984, pp. 174-184, ISBN 3-923674-05-8 .
  • Dr. Paul Sauer: Becoming a big city: Stuttgart between the founding of the Reich and the First World War, 1871 to 1914, Silberburg-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1988, p. 199.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Heydt: Chronicle of the Corps Stauffia zu Stuttgart , 1960, p. 35
  2. ↑ History of the energy supply in Germany-old historical shares and securities. Schoene-aktien.de, accessed on July 7, 2010 .
  3. ^ Daniel Wolter, Egon Reuter: Price and trading concepts in the electricity industry: from the beginnings of the electricity industry to the establishment of an electricity exchange . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-8244-0765-5 , p. 67 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed July 7, 2010]).
  4. ^ Electricity works Waldsee - Aulendorf: Economic archive Baden-Württemberg. uni-hohenheim.de, accessed on July 7, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Ripper, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pioneer in electrical engineering
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen
DATE OF DEATH June 1927