Emil Arnold Budde

Emil Arnold Budde, ca.1913.

Emil Arnold Budde (born July 28, 1842 in Geldern , † August 15, 1921 in Feldafing ) was a German physicist and mathematician.

Budde first studied Catholic theology from 1858, later natural sciences and received his doctorate in Bonn in 1864, where he also completed his habilitation in 1869. After years as a journalistic correspondent, he began studying physics in Berlin in 1887 and joined Siemens & Halske in 1892 . He became co-director of the company's Charlottenburg works (from 1893 to 1911) and from 1895 the first chairman of the VDE commission, which passed the first safety regulations for electrical systems (in Germany) on November 23, 1895 in Eisenach . It was initiated in December 1894 by the then General Secretary of the Electrotechnical Association, Gisbert Kapp . The first safety regulations for electrical high-voltage systems followed in 1895.

Budde was chairman of the VDE from 1904 to 1906 and from 1910 to 1912 , honorary membership in 1912. From 1911 to 1913 he was the third president of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

Works

• Scientific chats. Berlin, G. Reimer, 1891
• The employees' right to inventions. Two treatises ; with Wilhelm von Siemens. Berlin, Heymann, 1908

literature

• Max von Laue: Obituary for Emil Arnold Budde ; In negotiations of the German Physical Society ; 1921 pp. 66-68
• Wilhelm Rudolph: Introduction to DIN VDE 0100 ; ISBN 978-3-8007-1928-0 (includes CV)
• Andreas W. Daum : Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . 2nd, supplementary edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56551-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Emil Arnold Budde in the catalog of the German National Library

1. ^ Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 389, 478 .
2. ↑ http://www.vde-verlag.de/buecher/ivz/ivz1928.pdf