Christian Hagans

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Prussian T 36, a typical machine with the rocker arm drive developed by Hagans

Christian Theodor Hagans (born September 27, 1829 in Erfurt ; † August 26, 1908 in Erfurt) was a German engineer and founder of the locomotive manufacturer Maschinenfabrik Christian Hagans .

Life

Hagans was born in Erfurt in 1829 as the son of blacksmith and ironmonger Christoph Christian Hagans and his wife Anna Sabina, b. Rahaus was born. After finishing school, Hagans first completed an apprenticeship with a master locksmith , at the same time he attended the Erfurt School of Applied Arts . Due to his abilities, he received a scholarship to visit the Royal Industrial Institute in Berlin in 1849 , one of the forerunners of today's TU Berlin . After a successful visit to the institute, the young engineer Hagans got his first job in 1851 at the Fruchtchtenicht & Brock shipyard, which later became the Vulcan shipyard in Stettin . Three years later he moved to the Funke & Huck company in Hagen , a supplier of railway supplies.

With the death of his father, Hagans returned to Erfurt to take over his father's business. In 1857 he founded an iron foundry in Erfurt, which initially primarily supplied agricultural machines and equipment and which would later become the Hagans machine factory . In 1872 Hagans delivered his first steam locomotive , but initially his company built construction, narrow-gauge and tram locomotives .

The head of machinery at KED Erfurt encouraged Hagans to develop locomotives that would perform well even under the difficult route conditions in Thuringia (inclines, curves). Hagans developed the Hagans locomotive type named after him, in which the engine was divided into two groups, one group being driven directly and the other via rocker arms . Until the introduction of the T 16 equipped with Gölsdorf axles , the Hagans' Prussian T 15 remained the most powerful locomotive on the Thuringian mountain routes. Hagans designed the Prussian T 36, which was also equipped with a rocker arm drive, for the narrow-gauge lines of the Prussian State Railways .

Further developments by Hagans were a special hollow axle design and steam superheater.

At the turn of the century Hagans withdrew from the management of his company and left his three sons Hermann, Otto and Friedrich. Christian Hagans died in 1908, his eldest son Hermann the following year. In 1915 Otto and Friedrich Hagans sold the locomotive factory to R. Wolf AG in Magdeburg and in 1928 the plant was closed due to a lack of orders.

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SURNAME Hagans, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagans, Christian Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and founder of the Hagans-Werke
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1908
Place of death Erfurt