Arnold Langen

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Arnold Langen (born July 20, 1876 in Cologne , † January 17, 1947 in Darmstadt ) was a German engineer and industrialist.

Life

Arnold Langen was a son of Eugen Langen from his second marriage to Hermine Schleicher. After attending the Realgymnasium in Cologne and the commercial school in Neuchâtel, he did military service as a one-year volunteer with the Hussar Regiment No. 7 in Bonn, studied natural sciences at the University of Bonn and became a member of the Corps Hansea here in 1895 . In the winter semester of 1896 he switched to engineering studies with a focus on thermodynamics at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg and in 1898 to the Technical University of Dresden . In 1902 he was awarded a PhD at the University of Rostock with a dissertation on isochoric explosion pressures of gas mixtures. phil. PhD.

In 1903 he joined the Deutz AG gas engine factory founded by his father and Nicolaus August Otto as a test engineer . In 1907 he became head of the Novelties and Tests department and a member of the board of directors. In 1908 he took over the overall technical management. In the period from 1903 to 1909 he had a considerable influence on the further development of the diesel engine. In 1909 he became a member of the board and, with his brother Adolf Langen (1875–1954), with whom he had already studied in Bonn and Berlin and now also ran the company, reorganized the entire engine program, thus ensuring the business success of the engine factory before the First World War, in which he participated as Rittmeister of the reserve, justified. In 1918 he became general director of the Deutz AG gas engine factory. After the war, the manufacture of tractors developed from the manufacture of artillery tractors. In 1937 he resigned as chairman of the board of directors of the company, which had been called Motorenfabrik Deutz AG since 1921, and became deputy chairman of the supervisory board, of which Peter Klöckner had been chairman since 1924 after he had acquired the majority in the company.

Arnold Langen was chairman of the supervisory board of Collet & Engelhardt AG in Offenbach and a member of the supervisory board of J. Pohlig AG in Cologne, Pfeifer & Langen AG in Cologne and the sugar factories in Cologne. He was chairman of the employers' association of the metal industry in Cologne, the association of Rhenish industrialists and the German committee for technical education, and from 1929 to 1936 he was vice-president of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of the Provisional Economic Council and the Presidium of the Reich Association of German Industry.

At the Deutz machine factory, he created the first engine museum open to the public in 1925. On the 60th anniversary of the invention of the gasoline engine, in 1936 he wrote a detailed account of the history of the internal combustion engine. In 1947 he was killed in a car accident.

Awards

  • Honorary doctorate from a Dr.-Ing. E. h. of the Technical University of Aachen
  • Honorary doctorate from a Dr. iur. hc from the University of Cologne

Fonts

  • Investigations into the pressures which occur during explosions of hydrogen and carbon oxide in closed vessels. 1902.
  • The diesel locomotive with direct drive. Berlin 1933.
  • Johann Jakob Langen (1794-1869) and his clan. Cologne 1941.
  • Nicolaus August Otto, the creator of the internal combustion engine. Stuttgart 1949.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists . 1960, 11, 332.
personal data
SURNAME Langen, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1947
Place of death Darmstadt