Alfred Quail

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Alfred Richard Wachtel (* 1871 ; † October 16, 1961 ) was a German engineer . In 1906 he was the founding director of the Konstanz Technical Center, today's Konstanz University of Technology, Economics and Design .

Life

Alfred Wachtel was an engineer and chairman of the "Bodensee" district association of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) .

In 1906, Wachtel founded the private "Higher Technical College Constance for mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, structural and civil engineering" (Technikum Konstanz), today's University of Konstanz Technology, Economics and Design (HTWG Konstanz), in the rear building at Hussenstrasse 17 in Constance. Wachtel was director of the Konstanz technical center until 1938.

He is the namesake of the "Alfred Wachtel Prize" awarded by the HTWG Konstanz since 1982 and the "Alfred Wachtel Hall" in building P of the university campus. In Constance , the "Alfred Wachtel-Strasse" was named after him.

Fonts

  • Application of graphostatics in mechanical engineering, with special consideration of the statically determined axes and shafts. Elementary textbook for technical teaching institutions, for self-study and for use in practice , with 194 illustrations, M. Jänecke Hannover 1906

Individual evidence

  1. ^ VDI-Zeitung, Volume 59, Page 126 (1915)
  2. ↑ Jürgen Klöckler, Norbert Fromm: “Between the Middle Ages and the Modern: Constance in Early Photographs: Pictures from the Wolf Collection (1860-1930)”, Thorbecke Jan Verlag, 2003
  3. ↑ Alfred-Wachtel-Preis , Fördergesellschaft der Hochschule Konstanz, accessed on July 23, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Quail, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wachtel, Alfred Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1871
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1961