Carl Busley

Carl Busley

Carl Busley (born October 7, 1850 in Neustrelitz ; † February 13, 1928 on board the " Fulda " in the Red Sea) was a German marine mechanical engineer .

After studying shipbuilding and marine engineering at the Technical University of Charlottenburg, today the Technical University of Berlin , he joined the Imperial Navy in 1874 as an engineer aspirant , then worked as an engineer at the Imperial Shipyard in Kiel and in 1879 became a teacher at the Navy Academy and School (Kiel ) appointed. In 1890 he was appointed professor by Kaiser Wilhelm .

In 1895 he resigned from the civil service and moved to the Schichau-Werke, whose owner Carl Ziese appointed him an agent. Busley chose to live in Berlin for this job . The Schichau-Werke , which manufactured machines, locomotives and ships in Pillau , Elbing and Danzig , were the market leaders in the construction of torpedo boats .

Busley was able to develop his organizational skills in Berlin and was, among other things, significantly involved in the founding of the Shipbuilding Society (STG), of which he was chairman until his death. He gave several lectures here, which are printed in the STG yearbooks . In 1920 he was made an honorary member of the STG. Busley was very versatile, which is also evident from his publications.

Works (selection)

• History of the sailing ships. The development of the sailing ship from antiquity to the 20th century . Reprintverlag Leipzig, Holzminden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8262-0238-4 (reprint of the 1920 edition).
• The technical development of the North German Lloyd and the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Aktiengesellschaft (Hapag) . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986 (together with Rudolph Haack ).

1. Text tape . 1986 (Reprinted from the "Newspaper of the Association of German Engineers", 1893).
2. Panel tape . 1986 (Reprinted from the "Newspaper of the Association of German Engineers", 1893).

• The development of the ship engine in the last decades . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986 (reprint of the Berlin edition 1888).
• "Turbine propeller with contractor" in: Journal of the Association of German Engineers Volume XXXVIII. No. January 1, 1894, Düsseldorf 1894.
• "The recent efforts and successes of the German shipbuilding industry" in: Journal of the Association of German Engineers Volume XXXIX. No. June 21, 1895, Düsseldorf 1895.

literature

• Press: Carl Busley †. In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers , Volume 72, No. 12 (March 24, 1928), pp. 404–405.
• Carl Graf von Klinckowstroem :  Busley, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 70 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Newspaper article about Carl Busley in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .