Alexander Ernemann

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Alexander Ernemann (born June 3, 1878 in Dresden ; † October 14, 1956 ; full name: Carl Heinrich Alexander Ernemann ) was a German entrepreneur , technician and designer of cinema equipment. He was the son of Heinrich Ernemann .

biography

After graduating from secondary school , Ernemann worked in a Dresden machine tool factory from 1893 to 1895 before he went to the higher trade school in Chemnitz . In 1898 he then took a position at AEG in Berlin . During two stays in the USA , where he worked at Westinghouse Electric Corporation and the Western Electric Company , he got to know the North American industry, which at the time was considered to be progressive. In 1904 he returned to his father's company and reorganized the operational processes. During this time Ernemann developed a special interest in cinematography . His great success was the Imperator , the first cinema projector made of steel , which was distributed worldwide and was certainly one of the most copied cinema projectors. 10,000 of this model had been built in Dresden by 1921. With the merger of Ernemann AG and other companies to form Zeiss Ikon AG in 1926, Alexander Ernemann received a director post in the new company. Projector construction remained his field of activity. He developed the first water-cooled 35mm projector. At the end of the Second World War , Ernemann fled Dresden and was managing director of the Contessa factory of Zeiss Ikon in Stuttgart . He then built cinema projectors at Anschütz in Kiel , which continued to carry the Ernemann name.

Honors

Because of his achievements in the field of cinematography, Alexander Ernemann was awarded the Messter Medal of the German Kinetechnische Gesellschaft in 1937 . In 1951 he was made an honorary senator of the Technical University of Stuttgart. On his 75th birthday in 1953, Ernemann received an honorary doctorate from the University of Kiel . Ernemann was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1956, shortly before his death, he became an honorary member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers .

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personal data
SURNAME Ernemann, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernemann, Carl Heinrich Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, technician and designer of cinema equipment
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1956