Ernst Körting (engineer)

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Ernst Körting

Ernst Körting (born February 12, 1842 in Hanover , † January 4, 1921 in Hanover) was a German engineer and entrepreneur . He was a pioneer of jet pump technology and developed one of the first working injectors . Almost at the same time and independently of Gustav de Laval, he saw through the principle of the supersonic nozzle , which is now known as the Laval nozzle .

Life

family

Oil painting from the beginning of the Imperial Continental Gas Association (ICGA) on the Glocksee , signed : " I. Körting 1922, born in the above house in 1834" (original in the possession of the Deutsches Museum in Munich )

Ernst Körting was the son of the first director of the Hanoverian gas works , at that time still the Imperial Continental Gas Association (ICGA), the businessman Friedrich Ernst Körting (1803-1882) and his wife Sophie (1802-1869), daughter of the Hanoverian court cabinet maker Johann Heinrich Meyer and Catharine Sophie Amalie Corneils , born into the Körting family. His brothers were the future gas works director Leonhard Körting and Berthold Körting , with whom he later founded the Körting Brothers company in Hanover .

In his first marriage he married Maria Matyas († 1879) in Vienna in 1875, in his second marriage in Karlsruhe in 1885 Luise Marie, née Reuter (1843–1915), widow of Louis Doelling (1843–78), owner of the Karlsruhe-based company Raupp & Doelling.

From his first marriage, Körting had three daughters, including Irma Marie (1876–1970), who married the engineer Gustav Fusch (1871–1943) in 1898 , the director and board member of Körting Maschinen- und Apparatebau-AG, and Helene († around 1950 ) who married Adalbert Fischer , an industrialist in Philadelphia.

Career

Körting attended the Hanover Polytechnic , which he graduated with a major in railway engineering at the age of 22 . In 1861 he became active there with the then Landsmannschaft Obotritia (later Corps Obotritia Darmstadt). After completing his training, he worked in various European countries. In 1871 he founded the Gebrüder Körting company with his brother Berthold Körting , with Ernst Körting taking over the technical management while his brother concentrated on commercial matters. The company was a leader in jet pump technology in Germany and Europe for a long time and still exists today.

Honors

In 1906 the Technical University of Hanover awarded Ernst Körting an honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing.Eh ). In 1909 he was awarded the Grashof Memorial Medal from the Association of German Engineers .

In Berlin , Lauenburg , Düsseldorf , Au and Fischamend streets are named after Ernst Körting or the Körting brothers. In Hanover, near the Lister Meile, the street on which the first production facility was located was named Körtingstraße.

In Hanover-Badenstedt there is a workers' settlement that was created by the Körting company and named in Körtingsdorf . There is also a Körting Brothers School there.

Fonts (selection)

  • My CV as an engineer and businessman . In: Contributions to the history of technology and industry. Yearbook of the Association of German Engineers . Vol. 1, Berlin: VDI-Verlag, (1909), pp. 200-211

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonhard Körting. In: Eva A. Mayring (Ed.): Images of technology, industry and science. An inventory catalog of the Deutsches Museum . Edition Minerva, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-938832-28-8 , p. 226 Preview of Google books
  2. ^ Rainer Ertel : Gas supply . In: Klaus Mlynek, Dirk Böttcher (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 204f.
  3. ↑ a b c d Count Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoß:  Körting, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 396-399 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Körting, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1921
Place of death Hanover