Ernst Körting junior

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Ernst Körting junior (* 21st August 1869 ; † 15. November 1932 ) was a German mechanical engineering - engineering and engines - designer of the company Körting AG in Hannover .

Life

Ernst Körting junior was a member of the Körting family , son of Berthold Körting , a nephew of the mechanical engineer, industrialist and co-founder of Körting Hannover AG Ernst Körting .

From 1887 Ernst Körting jr. Motors for balloons and airships .

After Ernst Körting jun. in 1907 an engine for the Wright brothers had constructed, he developed from 1907 to 1909 an eight-cylinder - V engine with 71 to 85 horsepower for military - Zeppelins . In 1909 , an airship equipped with a Körting engine achieved the record of 13 hours and a speed record of 72 km / h.

Körting also successfully developed engines for submarines . In 1904 he became a member of the executive board of Körting AG.

Ernst Körting junior was commemorated in the Körting family grave marked by a grave stele in the New St. Nikolai Cemetery in the northern part of Hanover. His more detailed dates of birth and death can be read in an inscription on a family grave in the Engesohde city cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d without author : Prominent graves / gravesite of the Körting family , brief information with photo of the grave stele and location information on the page nikolai-friedhof.de [ undated ], last accessed on November 16, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Ingrid Rexrodt: Ernst Körting on findagrave.com , last accessed on November 16, 2018
  3. ^ A b c Hans Christoph Graf 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 ).
  4. ↑ Alexander Jaser (Ed.): Walther Rathenau: Briefe , Vol. 2: 1914 - 1922 , Düsseldorf: Droste, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7700-1620-4 and ISBN 3-7700-1620-3 , p. 2763 u.ö .; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Körting, Ernst junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and engine designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1869
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1932