Ernst Feyerabend

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Ernst Feyerabend (born October 20, 1867 in Marienwerder , West Prussia province , † October 19, 1943 in Würzburg ) was a German ministerial official.

biography

In 1887, Feyerabend entered the senior service of the Reichspost as a telecommunications engineer and technical officer . In 1894 he became an employee of the Reich Post Office , the forerunner of the later Reich Post Ministry . In the course of time, he was particularly committed to the introduction of automatic telephony . At the end of 1902, in his role as head of the procurement office of the Reich Post and Telegraph Administration, he traveled to the USA for a few months to find out about current developments in telephony and modern management from several telephone companies . He paid particular attention to the central battery system and the products of the "Kollegg Switchboard & Supply Company" in Chicago .

In 1920 he was appointed ministerial director in the Reich Ministry of Post and as such was head of Department II (telephony and submarine cables ).

In 1926 he was appointed State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Post and held this office until 1932 under the Reich Ministers of Post Karl Stingl and Georg Schätzel . As State Secretary he was responsible for the entire telecommunications system during the last years of the Weimar Republic . Between 1928 and 1932 he was also a member of the administrative board of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG).

Publications

Feyerabend was also active as a technology historian and author of several works on the achievements of Carl Friedrich Gauß , Carl August von Steinheil , Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Philipp Reis in telecommunications and telephony such as

  • 50 years of telephone in Germany
  • The telegraph by Gauss and Weber in the development of electrical telegraphy
  • The first practical electrical telegraph
  • At the cradle of the electric telegraph
  • The Development of Telegraphy on Wired Lines .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jan-Otmar Hesse: International Competition in the Telephone System: The Switchboard Problem of the 1880s  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Göttingen 2008, p. 13.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hist.uib.no  
  2. Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft mbH (RRG) (PDF; 198 kB)
  3. Carl August von Steinheil. Physicist (PDF; 50 kB)
  4. "50 Years of Telephone in Germany. 1877-1927", Berlin 1927
  5. ^ The Telegraph by Gauss and Weber in the Development of Electric Telegraphy , Berlin 1933
  6. The first practically used electrical telegraph , in: Technikgeschichte 22, 1933, p. 83
  7. At the cradle of the electric telegraph , in: Deutsches Museum, Abhandlungen undberichte 5 (1933) 5, pp. 143–174  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.artec.uni-bremen.de  
  8. The development of telegraphy on wired lines , in: Deutsches Museum, Abhandlungen undberichte Heft 5 (1937), pp. 109–145  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.artec.uni-bremen.de