Alexander Salot

Alexander Salot

Patent number 815 761

Alexander Salot (born February 8, 1907 in Schönowitz / OS; † October 9, 1992 in Blumenthal ) was a German master shoemaker. He invented the screw -in football boot .

Life

He went to school and made the shoemaker apprenticeship in Upper Silesia , the final examination was carried out in 1925. The move to Blumenthal took place in 1928, the same year he co-founded and Player of the new football department in Arbeitersport the Neurönnebecker TV, in 1933 after the banning of the Workers Sports (see History of the Workers' Sports Movement ) was dissolved. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , from which he was released in 1942 because of a serious illness. From 1945 to 1960 he worked as a self-employed shoemaker.

From 1947 to 1955 he was the sporting director of the Blumenthaler Sportverein and had a major impact on club life.

Create

In June 1945 he was registered as a self-employed shoemaker at the Bremen Chamber of Crafts . He passed the master craftsman examination in 1947. With the aim of producing a lightweight soccer shoe that can be adapted to different ground conditions, he developed a shoe with exchangeable screw studs in which the threaded nuts are integrated into the sole. This invention was filed as a patent on August 30, 1949 (patent specification number 815,761) and the patent was published on August 9, 1951. At the Blumenthaler Sportverein and Werder Bremen , the shoe was subjected to a successful practical test to prove the durability of the threaded studs. The rapidly increasing demand for these shoes could soon no longer be satisfied by the company's own workshop in Bremen-Blumenthal. From the beginning of 1950, the shoes were manufactured in large numbers as "plus-point boots" (with threaded studs) under license by the Hürkamp company in Ahlen (Westphalia). In the mid-1950s, the Hürkamp company had to file for bankruptcy and production was stopped. Alexander Salot ran his shoe workshop until the beginning of 1960, after which only small orders were carried out for friends and acquaintances.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Salot on the invention of the screw-in studs: "Dassler was not the pioneer". Retrieved July 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Barbara Wenke: Werner Salot reports on the true inventor of the screw-in studs. Retrieved July 22, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Werner Salot on the invention of the screw-in studs: "Dassler was not the pioneer". Retrieved July 22, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Werner Salot on the invention of the screw-in studs: "Dassler was not the pioneer". Retrieved July 22, 2019 . 
5. ↑ With thread . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9/1950 . Spiegel-Verlag, Hamburg March 2, 1950, p. 28 .

Web links

• Football and technology (extensive and precise presentation of all technical aspects of football boots from the German Patent and Trademark Office)
• Who screwed the first studs into their shoes? in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on May 23, 2006
• The inventor of the screw-in studs is called Salot, not Dassler in sueddeutsche.de, on September 1, 2009