Achilles Eduard Carneghem van Weghen

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Achilles Eduard Carneghem van Weghen also: Achilles Eduard von Caneghem and also Achilles van Caneghem (* 1886 in Flanders , † 1981 in Celle ) was a Belgian-German engineer , businessman and entrepreneur as well as an inventor in the field of wind turbines .

Life

The baron , who was originally born in Belgium , settled in Celle in 1926 after the First World War .

During the period of the Weimar Republic , van Caneghem applied for a patent on July 6, 1932 under the title wind power plant with propellers and funnel-shaped wind tunnels arranged in front of them . In the USA , Caneghem also patented an invention of a motorcycle that was registered on February 8, 1936 and that could also be used as a watercraft .

At the time of National Socialism and during the Second World War , the nobleman ran a tattersall , a horse, cart and riding business in the buildings of the former leather factory on what would later be Biermannstrasse in Celle. In the building of the Celler Lederwerke by Fritz Wehl , which emerged from the Wehlschen Lederfabriken and from 1932 onwards the Hermann Kluge leather factory on Wittinger Strasse , the Tattersall was used temporarily for paramilitary training for the young German people "Fähnlein 2, Bann 77", as the contemporary witness Otto Brase opposite the Celleschen Zeitung explained.

In the 1950s Caneghem van Weghem also ran a small riding stable in the Vorwerk district of Celle . There, especially children could learn to ride or take the donkey named Lotte on the carriages for trips into the surrounding area.

Caneghem van Weghem was one of the founding members of the Green Party in Celle. In addition, he later applied for "several patents for wind power plants".

Web links

  • Andreas Babel: Tattersall on the Cellesche Zeitung page from October 10, 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f RWLE Möller , Bernd Polster : Alfred Mohrbutter , in: Celle. The city book. ES, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-00-012605-8 , p. 68
  2. ↑ Achilles Eduard von Caneghem: Wind driven power plant - has a wind driven wheel fitted close to a lower wind inlet and a rotatable nozzle type superstructure (in English), patent application dated January 21, 1974, published July 24, 1975; Summary with cross-references on the google.sr page
  3. ↑ a b c d Andreas Babel: Tattersall ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the page of the Celleschen Zeitung of October 10, 2014, last accessed on October 17, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cellesche-zeitung.de
  4. ↑ Compare the publication number DE605673 C
  5. ↑ Compare patent number US 2075785 A , published March 30, 1937 in the United States
  6. ↑ RWLE Möller, Bernd Polster: Wehlsche Lederfabriken , in: Celle. The City Book ... , p. 139
personal data
SURNAME Carneghem van Weghen, Achilles Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carneghem, Achilles Eduard von; Carneghem, Achilles van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-German engineer, businessman, entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Flanders
DATE OF DEATH 1981
Place of death Celle