Ernst Heckel
Ernst Heckel , (full name Ernst Ferdinand Heckel , born November 26, 1861 in Saarbrücken , † May 26, 1949 in Tegernsee ) was a German mechanical engineer and entrepreneur .
Life
His father was Georg Peter Heckel (1822–1904), wire rope manufacturer in St. Johann (Saar) , his mother Elise Dorothea Heckel nee. Garelly (1833-1910). Ernst married Emma (1872–1922), a daughter of the St. Ingbert glass manufacturer Friedrich Johann Albert Hahne and his wife Bertha Hahne, born in Saarbrücken in 1894 . Schmidtborn.
The family business founded by his great-grandfather Johann Georg Heckel († 1828) was considered to be groundbreaking in the conversion of conventional rope manufacture to the manufacture of wire ropes for the up-and-coming coal mining in Saarland and iron ore mining in neighboring Lorraine. Ernst attended the trade school in Saarbrücken and studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , where he joined the Germania fraternity (now Teutonia ). Heckel then received practical training in the family business, which he later took over management together with his brother Georg Julius (1856–1928). The successful use of wire ropes in mechanical line conveying in mining led to the establishment of the Society for Conveyor Systems Ernst Heckel in Saarbrücken in 1905 . The new constructions developed with the support of Karl Glinz and others soon included transport, shunting and loading systems of all kinds and enabled the first ski lifts as well as the construction of the first cable car with large cabins on the Schauinsland near Freiburg im Breisgau after the First World War. In 1927, due to financial difficulties, the company had to be sold to Felten & Guilleaume Carlswerk AG , Cologne, and thus to the Arbed group.
In 1912 Heckel founded an orchestra club in Saarbrücken , and in 1913 a theater club.
Honors
- 1917: Appointment to the Commerce Council
- 1918: Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Karlsruhe (as Dr.-Ing.Eh )
- In St. Ingbert district Rohrbach was Ernst-Heckel Street named after him.
literature
- German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE)
- Georg Kirschner: Directory of members of the Karlsruhe Burschenschaft Teutonia . 1966.
- Fritz Hellwig : Ernst Heckel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 179 f. ( Digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heckel, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heckel, Ernst Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mechanical engineer and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1949 |
| Place of death | Tegernsee |