August Wagener

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August Wagener (born October 7, 1865 in Rawitsch , † June 30, 1913 in Danzig ) was a German mechanical engineer and university professor .

Life

August Wagener studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University . Here he joined the academic association Delta, the later Corps Delta. After completing his studies as a Dipl.-Ing. he first switched to industry. In 1891 he went to the test station for gas engines from Oechelhaeuser & Junkers founded by Wilhelm Oechelhäuser in 1890 at the Dessauer Gasanstalt . Wilhelm Oechelhäuser, Wilhelm Lynen and August Wagener developed a double-piston two-stroke engine which, due to its high compression compared to the Otto four-stroke engine, had halved fuel consumption and two and a half times less waste heat. In 1892/93 the first two machines with an output of 116 hp were manufactured. BAMAG later continued the production of such gas machines . In 1910, 514 large machines of this type with a total output of 677,065 hp were running worldwide.

In 1904 August Wagener was appointed professor for thermal and mechanical piston machines at the newly founded Technical University of Danzig . Here he researched and taught in the field of thermodynamics and engine theory and headed the machine laboratory. From 1912 to 1913 he was rector of the Technical University of Gdansk. In 1913 he died in an industrial accident.

Awards

  • 1907: Awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class
  • Award of the ribbon of the Corps Borussia Danzig

Fonts

  • Treatise on Gas Engines, 1896
  • Utilization of fuel gas, 1900
  • Flugtechnik, in: Moedebecks Taschenbuch
  • Contributions to the question of the use of two-stroke machines in aircraft construction
  • About the design of the lessons and the examination regulations for mechanical engineering at the technical university. Danzig, 1908
  • Work on thermal engineering (unfinished)

literature

  • Nehlep, Hans (ed.): Album Academicum des Corps Baltica-Borussia Danzig 1860–1970, Berlin 1973.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß:  Oechelhäuser, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 423 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Official communications in: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 27, No. 61 (July 27, 1907), p. 401
personal data
SURNAME Wagener, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Rawicz
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1913
Place of death Danzig