Anton Hammel

Bavarian S 3/6 designed by Anton Hammel

Anton Hammel (born May 26, 1857 in Munich ; † March 27, 1925 there ) was a German locomotive engineer.

Career

Hammel attended the trade and industry school in Munich and joined the JA Maffei locomotive factory in 1875 . There he rose from a designer to a senior director. He held this position until his death in 1925. Its designs established the company's global reputation.

For the Gotthard Railway in 1882 he developed a heavy, four-coupled, and in 1890 a six-coupled articulated locomotive. The best-known designs of Hammels were the express train locomotives designed according to American construction principles with four-cylinder compound engines and bar frames . The Bavarian S 2/6 set the world record for steam locomotives, which was valid until 1936, at 154 km / h in 1907 . It was the model for the first German Pacifics of the Baden class IVf as well as the Bavarian S 3/6 , which was first produced in 1908 and was the last Bavarian express locomotive to be used until the 1960s. The Bavarian Gt 2 × 4/4 , the heaviest Bavarian tank locomotive , was also built by Maffei under Hammel's direction.

Honors

• 2011: Naming of Anton-Hammel-Strasse in Munich ⊙

literature

• Uwe Puschner : Mutton, Anton. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 301 ( digitized version ).
• Erhard Born:  Mutton, Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 591 ( digitized version ).
• KraussMaffei. 150 years of progress through technology 1838-1988. Hermann Merker Verlag Fürstenfeldbruck 1988. ISBN 3-922404-07-3 . Page 38 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KraussMaffei. 150 years of progress through technology 1838-1988. Hermann Merker Verlag Fürstenfeldbruck 1988. ISBN 3-922404-07-3 . Page 38 ff.
2. ^ Anton-Hammel-Straße on the website of the city of Munich