August from Borries

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August from Borries

August Friedrich Wilhelm von Borries (born January 27, 1852 in Niederbecksen (today Bad Oeynhausen ), † February 14, 1906 in Merano ) was a German engineer who mainly dealt with developments in locomotive construction .

Life

origin

August came from the Westphalian-Lower Saxony postal aristocratic family Borries . He was the eldest son of the Prussian Prime Lieutenant and landowner Friedrich von Borries (1815–1864) and his wife Auguste, née Abendroth (1825–1867). His younger brother Arthur (1853-1923) was the Saxon-Altenburg Minister of State .

Career

Omnibus tender locomotive Prussian type T 0, first application of the compound drive in Germany

Borries was a student at the Royal Commercial Institute in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1870 to 1873 . After working for the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft for a year , he joined the Hanover Directorate of the Prussian State Railways (KPEV) in 1875 . After serving as director of the workshop in Lingen, he was appointed head of the mechanical engineering design office in 1881. In 1885, Borries was given the management of the workshop in Leinhausen in the capacity of machine inspector. In 1888 he was finally promoted to head of the mechanical engineering office of the Hanover Railway Directorate. As the first machine technician in Prussia, Borries was finally appointed government and building councilor in 1894. As part of his work at KPEV, he made particular contributions to the introduction of the fuel-saving compound engine in steam locomotive construction, such as the construction of the first two Prussian compound locomotives by Schichau in Elbing in 1880 (Prussian omnibus locomotive type T 0 , wheel arrangement 1 A n2vt).

Borries developed the single-axle drive of the compound locomotive named after him, in which, in contrast to the two-axle drive of the "de Glehn" design, the high and low pressure cylinders on one transverse plane act on a common bolster axis . A well-known and preserved example of this engine arrangement is, for example, the Bavarian S 2/6 . Furthermore, Borries further developed the starting devices that are at least manually operated, which are required for compound locomotives and with which the compound effect can be canceled for the purpose of safe starting of the machine by supplying live steam directly to the low-pressure cylinders. He also created automatic starting devices (shuttle valves). These were often used not only in Germany but also in other countries. In 1902 he ended his activity with the Prussian State Railways and accepted a professorship for railways at the former industrial institute that had been converted into the Technical University of Charlottenburg .

In addition, Borries published a textbook on locomotive construction, among other things.

He was Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John and Premier Lieutenant of the Landwehr a. D. At the Association of German Engineers (VDI), to which he had been a member since 1880, von Borries held the office of curator from 1899 until his death. Several times he was chairman of the VDI district association in Hanover.

family

Borries married Luise Rodewald (* 1856) in Hanover on June 19, 1877.The marriage had two children:

  • Friedrich (* 1878), naval shipbuilder, Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John ⚭ 1912 Johanna Mercklin (1886–1913)
  • Luise (* 1880) ⚭ 1902 Max Looff (1874–1954), German vice admiral and military writer

Fonts

  • The railroad equipment. Part 1: The locomotives. edited by August FW von Borries. Kreidel, Wiesbaden 1897 (The Railway Technology of the Present, Volume 1). Reprint: Bufe, Munich 1982.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Borries, Arthur von. Index entry: German biography. [25. August 2019].
  2. ↑ Alfred B. Gottwaldt : History of the German standard locomotives. The steam locomotives of the Reichsbahn and their designers. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1978, Reprint Kosmos, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07941-4 , p. 9.
  3. ↑ a b Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System. Berlin, Vienna 1912.
  4. ^ Karl-Ernst Maedel , Alfred B. Gottwaldt : German steam locomotives. The history of development. Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1994/1999, ISBN 3-344-70912-7 , p. 107.
  5. ↑ Alfred B. Gottwaldt : History of the German standard locomotives. The steam locomotives of the Reichsbahn and their designers. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1978, Reprint Kosmos, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07941-4 , p. 12.
  6. ↑ Railway teaching library of the Dt. Bundesbahn, Volume 134: Steam Locomotive Customer. 2nd edition, Josef Keller, Starnberg 1959, p. 282.
  7. ^ Karl-Ernst Maedel , Alfred B. Gottwaldt : German steam locomotives. The history of development. Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1994/1999, ISBN 3-344-70912-7 , p. 107 ff.
  8. ^ Theodor Peters : History of the Association of German Engineers . Based on papers left by Th. Peters - Published on behalf of the board and completed by 1910. Self-published by the Association of German Engineers, Berlin 1912, p. 111 .
personal data
SURNAME Borries, August of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borries, August Friedrich Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German locomotive designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederbecksen
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1906
Place of death Meran