Curt Dietzschold

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Curt Dietzschold , also Kurt Dietzschold , (born March 25, 1852 in Dresden ; † May 5, 1922 in Karlstein an der Thaya ) was a German engineer , pioneer of mechanical calculating machines , specialist teacher and writer for watchmakers .

Life and accomplishments

Curt Dietzschold was born in Dresden as the son of a senior royal Saxon railway official. He studied mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic and Aachen Polytechnic and initially dealt with the construction of clocks . After seeing a calculating machine from Charles Xavier Thomas at the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 , he constructed his own machine based on the Thomas machine. It was completed in 1876. During this time the young engineer came to Glashütte (Saxony) and worked for the newly founded company Strasser & Rohde . For a short time (March 21 to October 23, 1878) he even became the owner of this company.

In addition to precision clocks , he built a few more calculating machines, one of which the Prussian Statistical Office took over for testing.

When the Austro-Hungarian government was looking for a new director for the watchmaking school in Karlstein, the young engineer and factory owner was proposed on the recommendation of Karl Moritz Großmann . After Dietzschold took the position of director of the “K. und K. Fachschule für Uhrindustrie “ , he stopped the further development of calculating machines. Instead, he brought with him a wealth of experience in the field of precision watchmaking, which he had gathered in Glashütte. In Karlstein, he restructured the three-year technical school and created the concept for specialist teaching. He wrote books that had a great influence on the German watchmaking schools, and his curriculum was valid in all German-speaking watchmaking schools. He headed the watchmaking school until 1903.

Curt Dietzschold died blind at the age of 70.

Fonts (selection)

  • The adding machine. In: General Journal of Watchmaking. Vol. 5, No. 47, 1880, pp. 373–374 , (special print. Schlag, Leipzig 1882; online (PDF; 1.35 MB) ).
  • as editor: The tower clocks. Including the so-called art clocks. Practical manual for clockmakers (= new arena for arts and crafts. 46, ZDB -ID 520183-4 ). 2 volumes (Textbd., Atlasbd.). Voigt, Weimar 1894.
  • as editor: The toothing of clocks and mechanical devices and the calculation of the gear trains. In addition to numerous examples. Practical manual for watchmakers, mechanics, technicians and for the use of commercial schools. Huebner, Bautzen 1895.
  • The inhibitions of the watches, their development, construction, repair and treatment before the regulation, along with the associated tables, numerous illustrations and 6 portraits. Dietzschold, Krems 1905, digitized .
  • The Cornelius Nepos the watchmaker. 32 portraits and 33 life descriptions of outstanding watchmakers and scholars who influenced the development of watchmaking. A contribution to business promotion. Self-published, Krems ad Donau, 1910; 2., ext. Edition 1911

literature

  • Jörg Köhler: Glashütte / Saxony 1506 to 2006. 500 years of city history. Ed .: Stadtverwaltung Glashütte, 2006, ISBN 3-937951-31-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Dietzschold . In: Leipziger Uhrmacher-Zeitung . tape 13 , no. 3 , 1906, pp. 42 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Jürgen Abeler : Master of the watchmaking art. Wuppertal 1977, p. 131.
  3. ↑ Fritz von Osterhausen: Callweys lexicon. Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7667-1353-1 , p. 69.
  4. ↑ Lukas Stolberg: Lexicon of the pocket watch. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 1995, ISBN 3-85378-423-2 , p. 46.
  5. ^ Curt Dietzschold - the "father" of the technical school in the clock museum Karlstein
personal data
SURNAME Dietzschold, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietzschold, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, watchmaker and specialist teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1922
Place of death Karlstein on the Thaya