Carl Ziese
Carl Heinrich Ziese (born July 2, 1848 in Moscow , † December 15, 1917 in Elbing ) was an engineer in marine engineering at the Schichau works in Elbing , Danzig and Pillau .
Life
After finishing school, Ziese completed an apprenticeship at Schweffel & Howaldt in Kiel . At John Elder & Co. in Scotland he was involved in the development process of the compound steam engine , and this construction kept him busy later on. He did his military service in the Prussian Navy . In 1871 he began his studies at the trade academy in Berlin , the forerunner of the TU Berlin .
He belonged to the generation of students who studied between the years 1861 (the shipbuilding school moved from Stettin to Berlin) and 1879 (the union of the commercial and building academies at the Technical University of Charlottenburg ). The next generation of shipbuilding students at this famous training institution founded the Latte shipbuilding association in 1878 .
After completing his studies, he went to Ferdinand Schichau as a designer , who, with his machine shop founded in Elbing in 1837, now ran an iron foundry , boiler forge, locomotive factory and shipyard and employed around 1,250 people. In 1876 Ziese married Schichau's daughter Elisabeth. He was accepted into the company and developed a strong expansion of the company, which led to many orders, even from China.
A world leader in the construction of torpedo boats , Elbing became too small and the fairway to the Baltic Sea too shallow, so Ziese built a large shipyard in Gdansk. In 1885 around 2,000 people were employed, in 1891 almost twice as many. The area had increased from 6 to 54 hectares and by 1914 the area had been doubled again. In 1898 Carl Ziese donated 3,000 marks to the latte. Large cargo ships, very large passenger ships and important naval ships were built at the Gdansk shipyard. The Columbus - still known as Hindenburg when the keel was laid - received one of the largest steam engines ever built.
In addition to pioneering work and improvements to the Verbund steam engines, steam turbines were built from 1907 onwards. The close connection between mechanical engineering and shipbuilding, well-trained skilled workers and engineers were essential factors in this company, which existed until 1945 as Schichau-Werke.
In 1910 he was awarded the Grashof commemorative coin from the Association of German Engineers .
literature
- The Schichau works in Elbing, Danzig and Pillau 1837–1912 . Meisenbach Riffarth & Co. Graphic Art Institutes, Berlin-Schöneberg 1912.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ziese, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ziese, Carl Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German shipbuilding engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1917 |
| Place of death | Elblag |