Christian Friedrich Tiede

Christian Friedrich Tiede (born August 22, 1794 in Neubukow ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ), † October 12, 1877 in Berlin ) was a German watchmaker and marine chronometer builder.

life and work

Christian Friedrich Tiede was born on 1794 in Neubukow / Mecklenburg. First he learned to be a locksmith from his father . For health reasons, however, he had to choose another profession and completed an apprenticeship as a watchmaker in Wismar . He then worked for five years with Antoine Niclas Delolme (1752–1836) in Braunschweig , then in Leipzig and in Dresden with Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes senior. , where he became friends with Ferdinand Adolph Lange .

In 1825 he moved to Berlin and started working in his own workshop. During this period he built his first pocket chronometer . On October 6, 1828, Alexander von Humboldt applied to Tiede to buy a chronometer for the Berlin observatory . Through the intercession of the privy councilor Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth , Tiede received a large lathe as a gift from the government. Tiede needed this lathe to be able to build precision pendulum clocks for observatories.

In 1838 he was appointed royal astronomical and court watchmaker.

Tiede was a member of the jury at the trade exhibition of 1844 in what was then the armory of Berlin and later received a gold medal for his exhibits. He was also responsible for the maintenance of the three main clocks of the academy, university and post office.

In 1846 he was awarded the Red Eagle Order IV class .

In 1854 the Royal Prussian General Post Office in Berlin decided to equip all post offices in Prussia with official clocks. On the recommendation of Tiedes, this state contract was awarded to the still young and unknown company Gustav Becker in Freiburg in Silesia, which made a decisive contribution to its economic stabilization and thus to its development.

Christian Friedrich Tiede died on October 12, 1877 in Berlin.

Watch manufacture

Tiede manufactured approx. 350 marine chronometers and extremely fine pendulum clocks with a gravity escapement . His astronomical pendulum clocks were used all over the world. The workshop was continued by his eldest son Bernhard Theodor Friedrich Tiede .

literature

Hans-Heinrich Schmid : Lexicon of the German watch industry 1850–1980. Company addresses, production program, company logos, brand names, company stories . Published by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie eV 3rd, extended edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-941539-92-1 .

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Tiede ; by C. Dietzschold; The Cornelius Nepos the watchmaker; Krems 1910; P. 35.
^ Christian Friedrich Tiede Watch Wiki
^ Hans-Heinrich Schmid: Lexicon of the German Watch Industry 1850-1980 . Ed .: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie eV 3rd edition 2017. B. 2. Nuremberg / Berlin, ISBN 978-3-941539-92-1 , p. 44 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tiede, Christian Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German watchmaker and chronometer builder
DATE OF BIRTH	August 22, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neubukow
DATE OF DEATH	October 12, 1877
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Friedrich Tiede ; by C. Dietzschold; The Cornelius Nepos the watchmaker; Krems 1910; P. 35.

[2] Christian Friedrich Tiede Watch Wiki

[3] Hans-Heinrich Schmid: Lexicon of the German Watch Industry 1850-1980 . Ed .: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie eV 3rd edition 2017. B. 2. Nuremberg / Berlin, ISBN 978-3-941539-92-1 , p. 44 .