Béla Barényi

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Béla Barényi (1939)

Béla Barényi (born March  1, 1907 in Hirtenberg , Lower Austria ; † May 30, 1997 in Böblingen ) was a designer who is considered one of the founders of passive safety in automotive engineering . Barényi had Hungarian roots. Over the decades, citizenship changed from Austria via Czechoslovakia to Germany .

Life

Barényi's birthplace

Béla Barényi was born in the Keller'schen Villa am Bach in Hirtenberg. Since his father Eugen Barényi (1866–1917) came from Pressburg , he became a Czechoslovak citizen when the ČSR was founded (1918). Barényi's father was (at the end of his duty) a major in the Austro-Hungarian Army , (from 1895) a teacher at the Kamenitz infantry cadet school and a professor of natural sciences at the military secondary school in Fischau ; his mother, Maria, came from the very wealthy Keller family. Barényi's great-grandfather was Seraphin Keller (1823–1882), founder of the Hirtenberger cartridge factory , his grandfather, Fridolin Keller (1849–1923), became a millionaire with his own company from 1890, owned a luxury Austro-Daimler and thus founded and deepened Béla's interest in automotive engineering. Béla's brother, Friedrich Barényi (1901–1984), was a mathematician at Junkers who helped develop the first jet engine .

After completing elementary school (Preßburg), community and secondary school ( Vienna and Waidhofen an der Ybbs ) as well as an excellent graduation from the public-law private college for mechanical and electrical engineering in Siebenbrunnengasse  35 in Vienna- Margareten , he gained professional experience at the Steyr from 1928 -Werken in Vienna, the Adler works in Frankfurt, the GETEFO company in Berlin and the Société Pendelastic and Soprotec in Paris.

From 1939 onwards, Barényi worked for Daimler-Benz AG on the mediation of his college friend Karl Wilfert and made the passive safety of cars his professional and life goal. A year later he became a German citizen and married Maria Killian in the same year - the marriage remained childless. In 1966, together with Daimler-Benz Chief Development Officer Hans Scherenberg , Barényi formulated the division of active and passive safety that is still valid today .

After the Second World War he started the Terracruiser and Concadoro projects . In 1946, since he had already joined the NSDAP before Austria was annexed , he was dismissed as politically charged, but in 1948 he was hired again as a development engineer with the task of special investigations and the preparation of design proposals.

In 1953 Barényi enforced his claims on the patents filed by Ferdinand Porsche in court. Barényi was able to prove that he had already presented the concept of the Beetle in detail in the 1920s, but had not sufficiently secured it with patents . In 1955 Barényi sued Volkswagenwerk GmbH for copyright infringement , whereupon his authorship of the VW Type 1 was recognized by a court.

His visions, designs and inventions ensured that Mercedes-Benz vehicles became the safest of their time. The first project was a new type of platform frame for the Mercedes-Benz 170V Cabriolet ( W 136 series ), which would provide better protection for occupants in the event of a side impact than with previous designs. His patent specification with the number (DE-) 854157, issued on October 30, 1952, is today regarded as the basis of passive safety in vehicle construction. The series introduction of this concept took place in 1953 with the "Ponton" series W 120 . In 1948 he invented a principle for sunken windshield wipers which, when switched off, are covered by the body and thus mean a lower risk of injury to pedestrians. This idea was realized in the S-Class W 126, which was built from 1979 to 1991 . The safety steering column goes back to a Barényi idea from 1947.

In 1951 Barényi achieved a breakthrough in safety development when he applied for a patent for the basis of the safety passenger cell. The concept of the defined crumple zone in connection with a high-strength passenger cell is a milestone in passive safety. This innovation went into series production for the first time in the luxury-class W 111 series , the "tail fin", presented in August 1959 . In 1963 Barényi invented the “safety steering shaft for motor vehicles” and had this technology patented. This safety steering premiered as a complete system in 1976 in the W 123 series. In addition to his commitment to passive safety, Barényi also developed groundbreaking automotive concepts such as the Mercedes-Benz Large Travel Caravan and the K-5 compact vehicle.

From 1955 until his retirement in 1974 he was in charge of advance development at Daimler-Benz. Barényi sold his house in Maichingen and the archive installed in it to Mercedes-Benz AG in the mid-1990s.

Béla Barényi, the father of passive safety and the author of 2,500 registered patents, died on May 30, 1997 at the age of 90 in Böblingen. The Vienna Technical Museum received parts of his estate .

Honors

Barényi headquarters in Baden near Vienna

Béla Barényi Prize

Béla Barényi Prize

In his honor, the Association for Motor Veterans (AMV) and the Robert Bosch company have awarded the Béla Barényi Prize at the Vienna headquarters of the ÖAMTC for services to people who have made outstanding contributions to motor vehicle traffic in the past .

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literature

  • Joachim Fischer: Béla Barényi. It's about the sensible car. Motor-Revue, Stuttgart 1974.
  • Béla Barényi: Many of them never honk. Automotive engineering archive Barenyi, Maichingen 1984.
  • Béla Barényi: Porsche had a car in front. Self-published by Barényi, Maichingen 1987.
  • Harry Niemann: Béla Barényi, Nestor of Passive Safety. Mercedes-Benz AG, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim 1994.
  • Harry Niemann: Béla Barényi - safety technology made by Mercedes-Benz. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02274-5 .
  • Lotte Lemmak: Two hours later . In: -: At the end of the path there is a new beginning . (Novel). First edition. Wagner, Gelnhausen 2007, ISBN 3-86683-033-5 , pp. 52-58. - online .

Web links

Commons : Béla Barényi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Daimler AG: Béla Barényi  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: mercedesclass.net , English, accessed on September 16, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mercedesclass.net  
  2. ↑ a b c Niemann: Barenyi, Bela .
  3. ↑ bids. (...) Eugen Barenyi. In:  Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung , No. 40/1918, February 19, 1918, p. 115, column 4 center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  4. ↑ Hymen. (...) Miss Marie Keller (...). In:  Wiener Salonblatt , No. 9/1898 (XXIXth year), February 27, 1898, p. 10, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wsb.
  5. ↑ Hanauska: Hirtenberg , p. 204.
  6. ↑ a b Hanauska: Hirtenberg , p. 368.
  7. ↑ a b Motor vehicle, especially for the transport of people. In: dpma.de , online (PDF; 85 kB) , accessed on September 16, 2011.
  8. ↑ Thomas Karny: The father of the crumple zone . In: wienerzeitung.at , Wiener Zeitung , February 23, 2007, accessed on September 16, 2011.
  9. ↑ a b Star Draftsman - Béla Barényi and Bruno Sacco - Part 1 . In: motor-klassik.de , January 15, 2009, accessed on September 16, 2011.
  10. ↑ Bernhard Flieher: Technisches Museum: How an engine disappears  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: salzburg.com , Salzburger Nachrichten , February 16, 2010, accessed on September 16, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / preise.salzburg.com  
  11. ↑ Béla Barényi and his team at Daimler-Benz. Contribution to the development of a roadworthy, safe and economical everyday car; Compiled on the occasion of the award of the Aachen and Munich Prize for Technology and Applied Natural Sciences in 1981. Barenyi Motor Vehicle Technology Archive, Maichingen 1981, OBV .
  12. ^ Wallner: Von der Kommandantur zum Kongresscasino , p. 63.
  13. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
  14. ^ "Bellevue" castle hotel. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 47/1920, June 12, 1920, p. 3, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt.
  15. ^ Wallner: From the commandant's office to the congress casino , p. 72.
  16. ↑ a b c ÖAMTC Fahrtechnik GmbH: Bela Barenyi Prize 2010. High distinction for deserving people in the Austrian veteran scene ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: oeamtc.at , accessed on September 16, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oeamtc.at
  17. ↑ The highest award in the Austrian veteran scene. Honorable - the Bela Barenyi Prize. In: Klub der Fahrzeugfreunde und Technikhistoriker Österreichs , September 6, 2008, accessed on September 13, 2011. - Online (PDF; 654 kB) ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / members.chello.at
  18. ^ ÖAMTC Fahrtechnik GmbH: Oldtimer. Martin Pfundner . In: oeamtc.at , accessed on September 16, 2011.
  19. ↑ a b Angelika Kiessling: Bela Barenyi Prize 2009 awarded . In: bosch-presse.at , November 3, 2009, accessed on September 16, 2011. - Online (PDF) .
  20. ^ ÖAMTC: Hans Peter Lenz awarded the Bela Barenyi Prize 2012 at ÖAMTC on November 19, 2012, accessed on December 21, 2012
  21. ^ ÖAMTC: Hans Herrmann awarded the Bela Barenyi Prize 2013 at the ÖAMTC on November 13, 2013
  22. ↑ BOSCH: Hans Alfred Staffen awarded the Bela Barenyi Prize 2014 at Robert Bosch GmbH on November 24, 2014
  23. ↑ awarded Elisabeth Mesicek with Bela Barenyi Price 2015: ÖGHK the ÖAMTC on November 9, 2015
  24. ↑ BOSCH: Bela Barenyi Prize 2016 goes to Helmut Zwickl at Robert Bosch GmbH on November 7, 2016
  25. ↑ ÖAMTC: Dr. Wolfgang Brandstetter was awarded the Bela Barenyi Prize 2017 at the ÖAMTC on November 10, 2017
  26. ↑ Bela Barenyi Prize 2018 goes to DI Georg Hönig. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Béla Barényi Prize 2019 goes to Kurt Bergmann (+ photos). Retrieved November 6, 2019 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Built in 1887 by Karl Hinträger (1859–1913) for the Hirtenberg town builder Josef Tischler . In 1919, the industrialist family Keller donated the villa to the community, which it used as a town hall ( local authority ) and, after being destroyed during the war, rebuilt it in its original form in 1950. In 2003/04 the building was torn down and a new municipal office was built on the property . - Hanauska: Hirtenberg , p. 272 ​​f .; Allgemeine Bauzeitung , 1887 (LII. Year); (Termination year :) Lower Austria Atlas , aerial photos 2003 and 2007.
  2. ↑ With his thesis on the basics of the later Volkswagen concept (central tubular frame with boxer engine in the rear and streamlined body in pontoon construction) he anticipated key design features of the VW as early as 1925/26. - From: Niemann: Barenyi, Bela .
  3. ↑ One of the residences of Barényi's grandfather, Fridolin Keller. - See: Edith Lappel: Karoline and Fridolin Keller ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: kaiser-franz-josef-museum-baden.at , 2008, accessed on September 16, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kaiser-franz-josef-museum-baden.at
personal data
SURNAME Barényi, Béla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barényi, Béla Viktor Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian car designer, pioneer of passive safety in automobile construction
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirtenberg
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1997
Place of death Boeblingen