Berthold Masing

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Berthold Masing (born October 3, 1849 in Mustel on Ösel , † April 25, 1911 in Dresden ) was a German shipbuilding engineer and shipyard manager .

Early years

His parents were Carl Johannes Masing and Adelheid Elmira (Ida), geb. Freiin von Ungern-Sternberg . His father was a pastor in the village of Mustel in the northwest of the then Russian , now Estonian island of Ösel or Saaremaa. After attending the humanistic grammar school in Arensburg on Ösel and, after his father was called to Saint Petersburg , a German church school in Saint Petersburg, he studied shipbuilding , first in Saint Petersburg and from 1873 in Charlottenburg . After completing his studies, he first worked in a small machine factory in Rostock and then at the " Stettiner Maschinenbau Actien-Gesellschaft Vulcan " in Bredow near Stettin . During this time he was also formally naturalized as a German . He married in 1883 and in 1884 became chief engineer at the "Stettiner Maschinenbau-Anstalt und Schiffsbauwerft-Actien-Gesellschaft (formerly Möller & Holberg)" in Grabow near Stettin. In 1888 he left the company and then worked as a self-employed "civil engineer" in Szczecin.

Shipyard director in Übigau

Übigau shipyard, 1892
The crane from 1891 was used to insert the steam engines, boilers and motors into the ships and became a landmark of the shipyard and Übigaus.

1890 Masing director of 1873 by the "Cargo Navigation Company in Dresden" (FSG) was founded, from 1878 to the " chain Towing of the Upper Elbe " (KSO) and since 1881 the "chain - German Elbschiffahrts Society" associated Shipyard Übigau in Dresden . He held this position until 1906. Thanks to the determined support of the parent company and its general director Ewald Bellingrath , he turned a small plant with almost 200 workers into a leading shipbuilding plant in Germany with more than 700 workers. The shipyard received, among other things, an 18-meter-high slewing crane with a 14-meter-long boom, which could lift loads of up to 50 tons, and a boiler shop.

In 1892 Germany's first shipbuilding research institute was set up on the shipyard site , the "Institute for Testing Ship Resistance and Hydrometric Instruments", where, in close cooperation with teachers and students from the Technical University of Dresden , a more favorable form of ship for inland vessels on the German canal network was sought in model tests and where the Technical University Professor Gustav Zeuner tested the "turbine propeller with contractor" (two water turbines , forerunners of today's water jet propulsion , with which the ship could be steered and driven downhill without a chain) in a test ship hydrokinetically.

In December 1903, the “chain” merged with the “Dampfschleppschiffahrts-Gesellschaft united Elbe- and Saale-Schiffer” and was then merged into the “United Elbe Shipping Society” on January 1, 1904. Two years later, the Übigau shipyard was merged with the “ Saxon Steamship and Engineering Company ” founded in 1863 to form the “Dresdner Maschinenfabrik und Schiffswerft Übigau AG”. This ended Masing's time as director of the shipyard.

Berthold Masing died of a stroke on April 25, 1911.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bredow was incorporated into Stettin in 1900 and is now called Drzetowo.
  2. ↑ Grabow was also incorporated into Stettin in 1900; Today it is called Grabowo.
  3. ↑ The initially quite small repair yard was taken over by KSO in 1877/78 together with its parent company founded in 1871. In 1881 the KSO bought both the "Elb-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft" and the "Hamburg-Magdeburger Dampfschiffahrts-Compagnie" and merged with them to form the "Deutsche Elbschiffahrts-Gesellschaft" chain.

literature

  • Shipbuilding Society (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society: Thirteenth volume . Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-92039-4 , p. 88–90 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - first edition: 1912).
  • The shipyard in Dresden-Übigau . In: Dresdner Anzeiger , July 3, 1904. Online: The shipyard in Dresden-Übigau ; accessed November 19, 2018.
  • Rudolf Sonndorfer: The technology of world trade: A handbook of international trade . 3rd completely revised edition. A. Hölder, Vienna, Leipzig 1905, OCLC 82944756 , p. 210 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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personal data
SURNAME Masing, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipbuilding engineer and shipyard director
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Mustel on Ösel
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1911
Place of death Dresden