Eduard Rubin

Colonel Eduard Alexander Rubin (1846–1920)

Eduard Alexander Rubin (born July 17, 1846 in Thun ; † July 6, 1920 there ) was a Swiss mechanical engineer and inventor of the full jacket bullet .

Rubin studied mechanical engineering from 1866 to 1868 at the Federal. Polytechnic in Zurich , then at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe , where he graduated in 1869.

In 1879 Rubin was promoted from adjunct to director of the federal government. Munitionsfabrik Thun promoted. In collaboration with Rudolf Schmidt , he developed the Schmidt-Rubin rifles, which were supposed to replace the cousin rifle, and he was responsible for the ammunition. The first small-caliber ammunition he developed was the 7.5 mm GP 90 with a full metal jacket , and the GP 11 was added later .

For the 8.4 cm field gun and the 12 cm cannons, he developed the Rubin-Fornerod grenade ignition device , which was introduced as an orderly from 1882. To increase the explosive effect, he used TNT and ammonium nitrate as explosives in artillery shells instead of black powder .

From 1883 to 1890 he was a free-spirited Thun municipal councilor. Eduard Rubin was a colonel in the artillery and married to Rosina Susanna Leuzinger, daughter of the famous Swiss cartographer Rudolf Leuzinger . Until his death he was director of the munitions factory, which he ran for 42 years.

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  Ruby fornerod grenade fuse for the 8.4 and 12 cm cannons

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  Cartridges 7.5 mm GP 90

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  Long rifle model 1889

Web links

• Peter Müller-Grieshaber: Rubin, Eduard Alexander. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .