Christian Friedrich Eilfeld

Christian Friedrich Eilfeld (born April 22, 1868 in Gröbzig ; † June 17, 1942 ) was a German watchmaker and developer of the metal spinneret .

His father was the shoemaker Karl Eilfeld. After attending school in Gröbzig and apprenticeship as a watchmaker in Köthen , he spent years traveling in Plauen in the Vogtland, Berlin and Vienna. From 1888 he did his military service.

After the business license was granted, a watchmaker's workshop opened in Gröbzig in 1892 for the sale and repair of watches and mechanical devices such as sewing machines, phonographs and bicycles. Now he was able to marry Mathilde Hentschel from Plauen, with whom he had the children Mathilde, Paula and Fritz.

On the basis of material displacement, Eilfeld experimented with the production of very small bores.

Around the turn of the century came viscose - rayon , where were used in the Spinnbadsäure glass spinnerets.

In 1908 Eilfeld moved to Plauen, where he ran a branch of his brother-in-law's watchmaker's shop. Here he met the innovative textile manufacturer Dietrich Wilhelm Reents at Bärenstrasse 16 , for whom he was supposed to manufacture metal spinnerets. He succeeded in manufacturing hardened tantalum nozzles , which were almost equivalent to a gold - platinum nozzle in terms of corrosion resistance .

literature

• 75 years of Gröbziger Feinbohrungen 1892–1967: a commemorative publication ; VEB spinning nozzle factory Groebzig, 1967