Carl Georg Weitzel

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Carl Georg Weitzel, director of the Mittweida technical center from 1867 to 1892

Carl Georg Weitzel (* 15. January 1843 in Mannheim ; † 16th December 1927 in Saalhausen near Dresden) was a German engineer for engineering and founded the Technical Center Mittweida 1867 new.

biography

Weitzel's father was Carl Leopold Weitzel (1811–1897), Grand Ducal Badischer Oberpostmeister , his mother Henriette Weitzel nee. Seippel (1818-1897).

Weitzel attended grammar school in Offenburg from 1860 and graduated with a university entrance qualification. From 1860 to 1863 he studied at the mathematical school of the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe and from 1865 to 1866 at the engineering school of the same technical center. He finished his studies as an engineer. He then took up an activity in the Technical and Statistical Bureau of the Direction of the Grand Ducal Transport Authority in Carlsruhe .

In August 1866 he began teaching mathematics, mechanics, mechanical engineering, brewing and spinning at the private Uhland technical center in Mittweida . After Wilhelm Heinrich Uhland moved his technical center to Frankenberg on April 17, 1867 after disputes with the city council of Mittweida and parts of the teaching staff. had relocated, Weitzel and two other teachers re-established his technical center in Mittweida. In 1867 he became a citizen of Saxony and in the same year married Ida Maria Sophie Weitzel, b. Hartmann; In 1869 the son Carl Leopold Weitzel was born. Although he was director of the technical center, he taught engineering mechanics, differential and integral calculus, analytical geometry, trigonometry, geometry and stereometry and algebra in 1870. In addition, he is always depressed by financial difficulties. In 1872 Weitzel therefore negotiated with the town of Döbeln about relocating the technical center on more favorable terms. In September 1872, Mittweida Weitzels' city council gave in and decided to build the technical center on Galgenberg. The new building was handed over on November 30, 1873. The daughter of the Weitzel family, born in 1879, died in the same year and Weitzel's wife also died in 1879. In 1883 Weitzel married Eugenie Hedwig Weitzel, b. Körner, (1853-1922). A year later, the family moved into the villa at Leisniger Strasse 7. The couple had two sons. He was a member of the Leipzig Masonic Lodge Balduin zur Linde . In 1892 Weitzel handed the directorate over to Alfred Udo Holzt and withdrew into private life. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the technical center, Weitzel visited Mittweida shortly before his death in 1927.

Weitzel was buried at his last request in the old churchyard in Mittweida.

Memorial plaque on the town church in Mittweida
Machine technician's school cover

Management of the technical center

It is difficult to decide whether it was a start-up or a continuation. Weitzel probably always saw his activities as a new foundation. Wherever he wrote about the technical center, the founding year is 1867. In January 1868 Weitzel published the first study program. Several times he asked the city council of Mittweida and the royal district administration for financial support and received loans after several interventions, but had to fire three of seven teachers on March 1, 1869. The city council of Mittweida decided in 1872 to build a house for the Technikum am Galgenberg, which they moved into on November 30, 1873. (This is the front of today's Carl-Georg-Weitzel-Building of the Mittweida University) After 1880, director Wetzel was on the ground the “General Ordinance, Concerning Commercial Schools” issued by the Saxon Ministry of the Interior forced to submit annual reports on the character of the facility, the curricula, the timetables, the disciplinary regulations and the teachers. In 1881, the Royal District Headquarters criticized Carl Georg Weitzel for describing his facility as a “higher” technical college, the pupils as “students” and his degrees as “diplomas”. Weitzel established the national and international reputation of the Technikum Mittweida with tactical skills and strategic foresight in curriculum design (new subjects, e.g. electrical engineering), hiring qualified teachers, combining theory and practice, independent practical exercises in the classroom and suitable laboratories, a constant cultivated relationship with industry and own journalistic activity. Its effective public relations work played a major role in the success of the technical center. It included the publication of two specialist journals (Allgemeine Technikerzeitung, Technische Korrespondenz), which he delivered to other newspapers so that they could obtain information from them free of charge and, in return, printed Weitzel's advertising. This also included sending advertising materials modified to suit the respective addressees to companies, publishing bookstores, schools and government institutions. Weitzel successfully included the foreign missions of the German Empire in its advertising practice.

Works

As an author

  • Carl Georg Weitzel: How do you become a machine technician? How do you become an electrical engineer? Publishing house Moritz Schäfer Leipzig 1885
  • Carl Georg Weitzel: Basics of general teaching for technical schools. Moritz Schäfer Leipzig 1906
  • Carl Georg Weitzel: Pedagogy for technical schools. Hartleben Verlag, Vienna 1908
  • Carl Georg Weitzel: Lesson letters for calculating letters and algebra, - in conversation form -. (2 vols.) Verlag Hartleben Vienna / Leipzig 1910
  • Carl Georg Weitzel: Lesson letters - in conversation form - for: stereometry, trigonometry, analytics, analytical geometry, differential and integral calculus. (2 vol.) Verlag Hartleben Vienna / Leipzig 1912

As editor

  • Carl Georg Weitzel: Instruction booklets for the entire mechanical engineering. (6 vol.) Verlag Moritz Schäfer Leipzig 1878
  • Carl Georg Weitzel: The school of the machine technician. (17 vols.) Moritz Schäfer Leipzig publisher 1894ff.

Awards

literature

  • Jan-Peter Domschke, Annerose Hahn, Hansgeorg Hofmann, Saskia Langhammer, Marion Stascheit, Werner Stascheit, Mittweida University (ed.): Carl Georg Weitzel - founder of the Mittweida technical center . Mittweida 2001.
  • Jan-Peter Domschke, Hansgeorg Hofmann: From the Mittweida technical center to the university . Sächsische Heimatblätter 3 (2009), Verl. Klaus Gumnior, Chemnitz, pp. 203-215
  • From the technical center to the university , 125 years of technical education in Mittweida ", Ed. Rector of the University of Mittweida (1992), p. 10 ff.
  • Karlheinz Fischer: Carl Georg Weitzel , Scientific Works 3/1989, Engineering College Mittweida, pp. 4–9
  • Martin Dressel: How the Technikum Mittweida became known , Scientific work 2/1982, Engineering College Mittweida, p. 1–10

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personal data
SURNAME Weitzel, Carl Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, founder of a technical center
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1927
Place of death Saalhausen near Dresden