Conrad Alvensleben

Conrad Alvensleben (born December 19, 1874 in Berlin ; † July 24, 1945 there ) was a German electrical engineer and accident protectionist.

Conrad Alvensleben, the son of a German railroad master, graduated from high school. First he did practical training in an electrotechnical factory for several years and then studied at the Technical University of Berlin , where he studied mechanical engineering. From 1898 he worked as an assembly engineer at Siemens & Halske . During this time he did further training at Westinghouse in Pittsburg.

He did a practice in mines of the Fürst Pleßschen Bergverwaltung before he switched to the steam boiler association in Essen in 1906 . When he took over the management of the electrotechnical department of the association, he came into contact with numerous electrical accidents, which he then became increasingly concerned with.

In 1917 Alvensleben became a supervisory officer at the professional association for precision mechanics and electrical engineering in Berlin. In this function he worked out numerous new accident prevention regulations and began in 1912 with lectures on the physiological effects of electrical current, particularly in the event of accidents. In 1926 he initiated the establishment of a committee to research electrical accidents. He also worked at the institute of Georg Eduard Martin Gildemeister in Leipzig.

In 1943 he was made an honorary member of the VDE . Marked by the turmoil of World War II , he died on July 24, 1945 in Berlin.

In honor of his work and that of the Austrian physician Stefan Jellinek as an accident protectionist in the field of electrical engineering, Gottfried Biegelmeier , the inventor of the residual current circuit breaker , donated the Alvensleben-Jellinek Medal of Honor , which is awarded by the non-profit private foundation for electrical protection .

Fonts

• Electrical accidents , ETZ 47th year (1926)
• Physiology and technology of electrical stunning , ETZ 54th year (1933)
• State of research on the effect of industrial currents on vital organs , ETZ 62nd year (1941)

literature

• Gottfried Biegelmeier and Heinrich Freiberger: Alvensleben and Jellinek - a dialogue on the way to understanding the causes of death from electricity , electrical engineering and mechanical engineering (EuM) Volume 96, page 85 ff.