Albert Aichele

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Albert Aichele (born February 13, 1865 in Lörrach ; † November 17, 1922 in Baden ) was a Swiss pioneer in electrical engineering .

Albert Aichele (1865–1922)
Albert Aichele

Life

Albert Aichele's parents were Albert Aichele and Maria, geb. from the Hove. The father was a partner and from 1832 to 1881 managing director of the KBC textile printing company . He had built the Lower Villa in 1860 . In 1901 her mother bought the neighboring villa with park in Lörrach (Position) named after her . The concert singer Helene Siegfried was a sister.

After completing high school in Basel and Lausanne , he studied mechanical engineering and electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich with Heinrich Friedrich Weber .

He was an avid high cycle cyclist and took part in various international high cycle races. In 1887 he set the hour record in Munich with 37.078 km. His high-bike Rudge Bicycle Racer is exhibited in the Museum des Pantheon Basel . When he accepted the cash prize in a race he had won in Switzerland that same year and returned it the next day, it was enough for the Federation of German Cyclists to downgrade him to a professional cyclist and to exclude him from the association. Following protests, the sentence was reduced to a four-month ban. Soon afterwards, high bike races were often banned.

Before graduating, he started at the Oerlikon machine factory , for which he worked for a short time in South America.

In 1891 he moved to the newly founded Brown, Boveri & Cie. in Baden and headed the test laboratory, initially with Carl Sulzberger (1864–1936), from 1902 alone. In 1909 he was promoted to director. Among other things, he designed improved designs of the oil switch using mechanical damping elements . From 1916 he worked as a freelance researcher and consultant. As an inventor and designer, he received over 100 patents.

In 1907 he married Olga Albertine Duhner in Hamburg.

He later became interested in cars and became Basel's first motorist. He was friends with Louis Renault , to whom he gave technical suggestions and who was most likely also the inventor of the cardan drive .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Aichele (1865–1922). (PDF; 26.3 KB) In: Technology is our business. Electrosuisse - SEV Association for Electrical, Energy and Information Technology, accessed on February 22, 2015 (biography).
  2. ↑ Max Triet: Aichele, Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ Otto Mittler: Albert Aichele. In: Argovia, annual publication of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, accessed on December 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Jürgen Moser: Villa Aichele. In: moser-architekten.de. Retrieved February 22, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Samples - Some highlights of the collection. Sports Museum Switzerland, archived from the original on May 4, 2009 ; accessed on February 22, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Sidney W. Brown's origins. Museum Langmatt, archived from the original on February 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Aichele, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pioneer in electrical engineering
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1922
Place of death Baden AG