Ewald Bellingrath

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Grave of Ewald Bellingrath at the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden (2017)

Ewald Bellingrath (born April 18, 1838 in Barmen (now part of Wuppertal ), † August 22, 1903 in Dresden ) was a German ship designer and shipowner .

Life

The offspring of a Rhenish industrial family studied in Liège , Karlsruhe and Zurich and was a student of Ferdinand Redtenbacher and Gustav Zeuner . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity .

After initial technical studies and practical work in machine works in the Rhineland, he came to Dresden in 1860. There, he realized soon that the dahinkümmernde, of towing and sailing dominated Elbe shipping only by using modern technology such as the originating from France and Magdeburg already proven chain Marine had a future. On January 1, 1868, he founded the public limited company " Kettenschleppschiffahrt der Oberelbe " (KSO). A chain was sunk in the Elbe , on which the chain tugs with their attached barges pulled themselves along the river. Thanks to the chain tractor, freight traffic to and from Dresden flourished. After the "Elb-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft in Dresden" was taken over in October 1881 and the "United Hamburg-Magdeburger Dampfschiffahrts-Compagnie" (VHMDC) on January 1, 1882, the shipping company was renamed " kette - Deutsche Elbschiffahrts-Gesellschaft " " .

As early as 1877/78, Bellingrath's company acquired the “Freight Shipping Company in Dresden” founded in 1871 and thus also its small shipyard in Dresden- Übigau , founded in 1873, which subsequently became a leading one - especially under the technical management of Berthold Masing 1890–1906 Inland shipyard in Germany was expanded. In 1892 the first shipbuilding research institute in Germany was set up on the shipyard site , the "Institute for the Testing of Ship Resistance and Hydrometric Instruments", where, in close cooperation with teachers and students from the Technical University of Dresden , a cheaper ship shape for inland vessels on the German canal network was sought and where the Dresden TH professor Gustav Zeuner tested the turbine propeller with contractor (two water turbines , forerunners of today's water jet propulsion , with which the ship could be steered and sail downhill without a chain) in a test ship hydrokinetically. Bellingrath himself designed the hydraulic carriage for transporting ships and in 1892 the chain gripper wheel named after him , as he had recognized that the chain breaks were largely caused by wear and tear on the drum winch. The first newly built chain ship equipped with a chain gripper wheel and water turbines was the Gustav Zeuner in 1894 .

Bellingrath resigned on January 1, 1903 as general director of the "chain"; His successor was his previous deputy, Carl Philippi .

Bellingrath was because of his outstanding contributions to the promotion of the German inland navigation from the Technical University of Dresden , the honorary doctorate conferred (Dr.-Ing. E. h.).

Ewald Bellingrath, like his wife Emilie, was buried in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden.

Honors

Bellingrathstrasse in Dresden- Tolkewitz is named after him.

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SURNAME Bellingrath, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ship designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1903
Place of death Dresden